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 ...
Colorado Ping
Import the left coast, get the left coast.
Classic communism at it’s very finest.
Ain’t it great? /s
I look forward to the day when this right is not infringed. The Supreme Court could help make that day arrive. But probably won’t.
Or reloaded.
This Colorado wildman needs to go to jail for trampling the Bill of Rights. These maggots think it is constitutional for any foreigner to sneak into the U.S., drop a loaf and call it a U.S. citizen but the right of the ANERICAN people to keep and bear arms is not. It’s time we start doing something about these freedom taking politicians.
Stupid is as stupid does....
Colorado, active criminal shooter zone.
[[Actually, it’s one of the most restrictive and blatantly unconstitutional laws ever adopted anywhere]]
Ny’s “safe act” is a blatant violation of rights too.
And no, we didn’t vote for that, either.
>>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.
So if I superglue a 5 round magazine to the buttstock, that makes a drum-fed rifle legal, right?
How long do you think it will take before a “law” like this gets challenged by the Supreme Court? This is a direct violation of the 2nd Amendment ...
Correct! No rights are granted by the Constitution.
I’m hoping to be there after Colorado’s Bastille moment watching the guillotining of each and every slimy Democrat that is ruining a wonderful state. Always happens when low IQ and even lower T critters imagine that they can actually successfully lead.
I’m hoping to be there after Colorado’s Bastille moment watching the guillotining of each and every slimy Democrat that is ruining a wonderful state. Always happens when low IQ and even lower T critters imagine that they can actually successfully lead.
Yep. I’ve gotten in a couple of arguments here simply by saying the 2nd Amendment does not “grant” anything.
They might, or might not choose hear a particular case.
Personally I wouldn't trust the Roberts/Barrett/KBJ court with a cheese pizza.
They passed it in the dead of night claiming it was an “emergency” (th3y had a name for it, can’t recall it now, but it meant “emergency measure” so that they didn’t require hearings on it or anything)
They’ve even labeled pellet rifles and bb guns the same as rifles now. Which means that anyone that had a bb gun pistol, or pellet pistol, but no actual pistol permit, is apparently a felon now if they still have it with no pistol permit.
Many people had modifiers/silencers for their pellet guns, and many pellet guns held over 7 rounds (or whatever ny’s magazine limit is), so those pellet rifles are now illegal evidently.
What is there to argue about? It’s just a matter of reading comprehension...
I think the term they used to pass the legislation without vote was “imminent need” or something like that.
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