Posted on 04/23/2021 8:03:26 AM PDT by real saxophonist
DA: Boulder shooter had 10 illegal large capacity magazines
by: Ashley Michels
Apr 22, 2021
BOULDER, Colo. (KDVR) — The man accused in the Boulder mass shooting is facing 32 additional charges, including 10 related to possessing large-capacity magazines.
In Colorado, it is illegal to buy or possess a magazine that can hold more than 15 rounds. The law was passed in 2013 following the Aurora theater shooting.
According to Boulder District Attorney Michael Dougherty, the suspected shooter in Boulder had 10 large capacity magazines on his person or in his vehicle. Dougherty declined to say how many rounds each magazine could hold but clarified that each had the capacity for more than 15 rounds.
“Obviously there was a law broken here in many ways by the shooter and the magazine issue is a minor one compared to the death and mayhem that he caused,” Eileen McCarron, President of Colorado Ceasefire said.
Through her organization, McCarron helped lobby for the law when Colorado lawmakers banned large capacity magazines. She said she believes there are holes in the law that still allow people to get their hands on the illegal parts.
“A gun store selling them is breaking the law and we know there are gun stores that are doing that,” she said.
According to McCarron, in 2019 a supporter of her organization witnessed a Colorado gun store selling disassembled kits to try and “skirt the law.”
However, it is not believed the suspected Boulder shooter obtained the large capacity magazines in this manner.
“We don’t have any reason to believe they were sold illegally,” Dougherty said Thursday during a press conference.
He added that the investigation is still in its early stages and that if any retailer did illegally sell the banned gun parts, additional charges would be filed. No Colorado gun stores are currently facing charges related to this tragedy.
If the magazines used in the Boulder shooting were not sold illegally, McCarron says it would mean they were purchased eight or more years ago and grandfathered into Colorado’s law banning them. The other possibility is that they were purchased out of state.
“If he went out of state or obtained the device by going to an out-of-state dealer, that was a legal purchase. It was illegal as soon as he brought the magazine back into the state,” McCarron said.
Every state that borders Colorado allows the sale of large capacity magazines.
Last week, Colorado Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-Colorado) helped introduce a new effort to change that. The legislation aims to ban large capacity magazines nationwide.
“There’s no reason why anyone, other than military, needs a gun magazine that holds more than 10 rounds,” DeGette said.
The bill would allow those already in possession of large capacity magazines to keep them. They would not be allowed to transfer or sell them to anyone.
She has fought for similar legislation in the past and it has failed.
DeGette is a liar and a deceiver. A typical Democrat.
The Boulder shooter is a fanatical Muslim Jihadist who had been under FBI monitoring for over a year for his participation in a cell that was planning to kill Trump supporters at a Colorado Springs rally. His father is also a Jihad advocate with a long record of social media postings (which were scrubbed within hours of the incident of course).
The shooter was still killing people 32 minutes into the incident while the police were stacked outside the front door, waiting for a GO command which never came. It is all on the videos, from the outside reporter and the in-store monitoring sites. He basically ran out of ammunition, then dropped his weapon, stripped down to underwear, and surrendered.
The police did not seem to know who he was.
The police searched an old man who escaped from the store, holding him at gunpoint. I thought they were going to shoot him on the spot. They also threatened to shoot another terrified man who was hiding in his car in the parking lot.
But let's moan and wail about the need for more "Gun Control".
More Democrats who "never let a crisis go to waste".
To Hell with them.
Correction: Boulder ISIS jihadist had 10 illegal-in-Colorado large capacity magazines
or a pile of old computer shoppers.
I bet that son of allah has ten or so gunsafes filled with smut.
Every boy will have his interests...
did you ever see any of the old Computer Shopper magazines?
they made phone books look small.
Arraignment postponed, shooter free on bond ($500K), judge removed the GPS tracker requirement. Definitely one to watch.
Thank you!!! Furthermore, when Colorado gun owners successfully recalled several of the D@mocrat state legislators most responsible for the mag purchase/transfer ban, then-Governor Hickenliar got scared & didn't even attempt to enforce it: for years, you could walk into just about any Colorado gun store and buy disassembled magazine replacement parts kits. Not sure if that has changed recently (I left Colofornia as soon as practicable ;^)...
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