Posted on 03/18/2013 9:17:56 PM PDT by Red Steel
DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper will sign legislation Wednesday that sets limits on ammunition magazines and expands background checks for firearms, marking a Democratic victory in a state where gun ownership is a treasured right and Second Amendment debate has played out in the wake of two mass shootings.
The measures proposed are some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, and their passage comes after weeks of tense legislative battles. Republicans and gun rights supporters put up a major fight against the measures in this politically moderate state, while Democrats made them the centerpieces of a package of legislative proposals drafted in reaction to shooting rampages at a suburban Denver movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school last year.
Hickenlooper spokesman Eric Brown confirmed Monday that the governor would sign the measures.
Colorado’s gun controls, which become effective July 1, are the first beyond the East Coast approved this year.
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A Colorado-based magazine manufacturer said it would leave the state if the new restrictions were passed, taking hundreds of jobs with it. Democrats tried to ease the concerns from Magpul Industries, saying the company can still manufacture higher-capacity magazines if they were sold out of state.
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Does anyone know if the law has a grandfathering for existing mags? or mags you already own?
Supposedly it does but the big question is how do you prove to the ‘authorities’ that the one in your possession was obtained prior to July 1, 2013.
Come on, it really is past time for our elected officials to think before they knee jerk a ‘solution’.
For existing mags and mags to be purchased before July 1.
How will they prevent owner made 3d printed parts?
purple state strategy turned colorado blue.
BEWARE the media matters and the dnc now want the purple strategy to go to texas.
Bloomberg was in position WAITING for newtown (btw not preventing, WANTING IT TO HAPPEN). Bloomberg financed most of this junk law. Imagine if he spent the money preventing school deaths. It is no different than if Bloomberg pulled the trigger himself on those children.
If I were a little more financially stable, I would write to Magpul and inform them that I would go there & help them pack & drive to a new location.
I would have to pay someone to housesit & take care of the animals.
But I am totally supportive of their decision to leave where they are not welcome.
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