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Colorado General Assembly passes controversial gun bill
msn ^ | 28 mar 2025 | Derek Draplin

Posted on 03/29/2025 12:33:14 PM PDT by rellimpank

(The Center Square) – A controversial gun control bill has cleared the Colorado General Assembly and now heads to the governor’s desk to be signed into law.

Senate Bill 25-003, when introduced, initially outright banned the sale or purchase of most semi-automatic rifles or shotguns that take detachable magazines and exempted firearms with “permanently fixed” magazines.

The bill was later amended to allow purchases if an individual secures a “firearms safety course eligibility card” from their local sheriff department and then completes a qualifying firearm education course.

SB 25-003 passed a concurrent vote of 19-15-1 in the upper chamber on Friday after the House passed it with amendments earlier this week.

The bill’s Democratic sponsors argue the legislation is necessary to enforce the state’s 2013 ban on magazines that hold more than 15 rounds. Opponents argue that the legislation amounts to a firearm owner identification card and question its constitutionality.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; armedcitizen; banglist; colorado; guncontrol; guns; nanglist; rkba; secondamendment; selfdefense
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--a dark day for Colorado--
1 posted on 03/29/2025 12:33:14 PM PDT by rellimpank
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To: rellimpank

Most days are “dark” days for Colorado


2 posted on 03/29/2025 12:38:53 PM PDT by albie (U)
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To: albie

Ever since the state was infested by refugees from Commiefornia.


3 posted on 03/29/2025 12:39:56 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: rellimpank

I remember when Colorado was a free state. then the liberals from California ruined it.

The Second Amendment does not require permission from the government.


4 posted on 03/29/2025 12:41:17 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Time to dump out the Treasury drawer and throw out all the junk that is wasting our money.)
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To: rellimpank

to allow purchases if an individual secures a “firearms safety course eligibility card” from their local sheriff department and then completes a qualifying firearm education course. I did that when I was ten years old.


5 posted on 03/29/2025 12:43:08 PM PDT by kawhill (I've thought that if we didn't always think we're the good guys, we would get in less wars. Karl)
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To: kawhill

If I lived there, they could look at my DD214 and shove all that other stuff where the sun doesn’t shine. God Blessed Texas.


6 posted on 03/29/2025 12:46:30 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Weaponized, bureaucratic "judges" like Boasberg have got to go. They aren't elected to anything.)
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To: rellimpank

Why are my 2nd Amendment rights dependent on taking some class, where if you want an abortion, just just get one?


7 posted on 03/29/2025 12:50:22 PM PDT by bantam
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To: rellimpank

No judge will stop it.


8 posted on 03/29/2025 12:53:16 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: rellimpank

This is the direction Washington state has been going

The curious thing is, gun violence has increased dramatically.

That’s illegally obtained gun violence. Laws preventing that have been greatly loosened


9 posted on 03/29/2025 12:53:41 PM PDT by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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To: rellimpank

Is this in the Constitution? Oh, wait, only what the democrats say is in the Constitution is allowed.


10 posted on 03/29/2025 12:57:45 PM PDT by Ronald77
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To: rellimpank
Correct me if I'm mistaken. Initially the bill was to outlaw the sale and/or purchase of semiauto rifles and/or shotguns that used a detachable magazine.

But the bill was amended to where the sale and/or purchase of the above is still legal, but the purchaser has to receive a "permit to buy" from the sheriff and the purchaser has to take a firearms class?

11 posted on 03/29/2025 12:57:50 PM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Roger that!


12 posted on 03/29/2025 1:00:33 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from withinE ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: LouAvul; All

-—more detail —

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/03/28/colorado-legislature-gun-control-ammo-assault-weapons/


13 posted on 03/29/2025 1:01:41 PM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: george76

Ping


14 posted on 03/29/2025 1:03:38 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer; kawhill

I too took a Hunter Safety class as a young teen. I don’t think it was related to my purchase of a gun.

Here in Washington state they will no doubt pass this permit and training to purchase a firearm. All told they estimate the cost will be about $250. And that permit and training is only good for 5 years. And no exemptions for current or former military.

Gang bangers, if caught with a stolen firearm, will probably still get the overnight stay in jail and released for a trial at some unspecified later date.

There was some guy that carjacked and killed a woman that was caught a few months ago. He had 8 prior felony arrests!


15 posted on 03/29/2025 1:04:36 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
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To: llevrok

“The curious thing is, gun violence has increased dramatically.”

Crime in Colorado is through the roof. There are so many foreigners here you wonder if it’s the U. S. Bums on every corner too.


16 posted on 03/29/2025 1:10:05 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: rellimpank
I guess all the cowboys in Colorado have moseyed on over to Wyoming, the Cowboy State.
Colorado's new motto is "The Brokeback State".

17 posted on 03/29/2025 1:10:54 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: rellimpank
I guess all the cowboys in Colorado have moseyed on over to Wyoming, the Cowboy State.
Colorado's new motto is "The Brokeback State".

18 posted on 03/29/2025 1:10:55 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: LouAvul

“but the purchaser has to receive a “permit to buy” from the sheriff and the purchaser has to take a firearms class?”

It will be struck down.


19 posted on 03/29/2025 1:11:09 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: No name given

It happened long before that


20 posted on 03/29/2025 1:14:34 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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