Posted on 07/26/2025 4:33:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber
District of Columbia v. Heller (2008, majority opinion by Justice Scalia):
“[t]his is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The Second Amendment declares that it shall not be infringed.
NYSRPA v. Bruen (2022, majority opinion by Justice Thomas):
The Second Amendment guaranteed to ‘all Americans’ the right to bear commonly used arms in public subject to certain reasonable, well-defined restrictions.
For rational Americans, Heller and Bruen make clear that the Second Amendment is a natural, unalienable right that encompasses keeping and bearing—wherever one might be—“commonly used arms” for defense of self and others. How then to explain this from Colorado?
Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday signed into law one of the most restrictive gun regulations ever adopted in Colorado.
Actually, it’s one of the most restrictive and blatantly unconstitutional laws ever adopted anywhere.
“I really think this will make Colorado safer,” Polis said before signing the bill in his office at the Colorado Capitol.
The law will take effect in August of 2026. It bans the manufacture, sale, and purchase of semiautomatic firearms that can accept detachable magazines. This includes most semiautomatic rifles in common use, like AR-15s, also Glocks and virtually any other semiautomatic handgun in any caliber. Magazine-fed shotguns would likewise be banned.
There is a bizarre exception to the outright ban, which Colorado obviously hopes might allow leftist judges to justify the rest. One can own a banned gun if it has a magazine of no more than 15-round capacity epoxied, welded, or soldered to the gun so it can’t be removed.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Democrats don’t think the way we do. They see freedom of any sort as dangerous. That is dangerous to their religion/philosophy of the masses ruled absolutely by the elites (in their minds they are far superior to the “basket of deplorables” who want to do things like eat meat, travel where and when they want, express their opinions - hate speech, etc ).
Democrats hate loath and despise the Bill of Rights because it constrains government and the core of their being is unlimited government power.
If they don’t understand that, they will indeed lose those Rights.
“… subject to certain reasonable, well-defined restrictions...”
Nowhere in the Bill of Rights is that phrase ever used.
When people have been taught in school that rights are “granted” by the Bill of Rights, rather than Endowed By Our Creator, it gets kinda difficult to deal with.
Best description I've ever heard.
From a friend of FRiend, Mad_as_He$$
http://www.motorcyclephilosophy.org/2014/01/how-to-fight-helmet-ticket-in-california.html
““I really think this will make Colorado safer,” Polis said before signing the bill in his office at the Colorado Capitol.”
Lord do I hate this SOB and our California legislature. This will be struck down. This makes my Ruger 10/22 an ‘assault weapon’. All of this came from Bloomberg in NYC.
The leftist knows they are angering the people. They must disarm them before they can go any further.
“How long do you think it will take before a “law” like this gets challenged by the Supreme Court? “
They’re throwing crap against the wall to see what sticks.
Polis can go suck an egg.
Judge shop for a nationwide injunction against this stupidity.
Well, he sucks more than that.
It is already being challenged. The Colorado law may be the one the Supreme Court decides to grant a writ of certiorari to.
There are several others in the works.
The Supreme Court only takes a couple of Second Amendment cases each term.
I believe it say, Shall not be infringed….
This is great. The more times liberal states lose 2A cases at the Supreme Court, the more protected the right becomes. It is a frustrating process but it is just making the 2A Right stronger with every loss by challengers.
Many people are unaware of, or are unable to grasp, that concept. Natural Law, and all that.
Here in Michigan, back in 2015, the state declared that air rifles are no longer considered firearms.
Colorado has become Colorfornia.
“How long do you think it will take before a “law” like this gets challenged by the Supreme Court? “
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, NRA and GOA already have their eyeballs on this.
“Colorado has become Colorfornia.”
It’s the Northeast too. One of the worst anti-gunner cat ladies moved here from NYC, got residency and immediately ran for office. She started shoveling Bloomberg gun control laws in the legislature.
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