After being besieged by a number of anti-gun bills during this legislative session, Colorado gun owners have a big victory to claim for the Second Amendment.
The Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee on Tuesday voted to indefinitely postpone House Bill 1292, the so-called “assault weapons” ban that would outlaw many common semi-automatic firearms. The measure is now officially off the table for this legislative session.
According to a report by Colorado Public Radio, Sen. Julie Gonzalez, said before the committee vote that she would ask for the measure to be voted down in committee.
“After thoughtful conversations with my Senate colleagues, I decided that more conversations need to take place outside of the pressure cooker of the Capitol during the last weeks of the legislative session,” Gonzales wrote in a text message to CPR.
The measure’s broad definition of “assault weapon” would have banned countless semi-automatic rifles, including the popular AR-15, pistols and shotguns that Coloradans use for hunting, target shooting, competition and self-defense. It would have also included firearm parts and components in its definition of “assault weapon” and “rapid-fire trigger activator(s).”
While the death of the AWB is welcome news, Colorado gun owners have certainly been under fire this session. A measure expanding the “sensitive places” where even licensed carry holders cannot possess guns was passed and sent to Gov. Jared Polis’ desk, and a measure requiring a special merchant category code for credit card firearms purchases was signed into law by the governor.
Also, a measure that would levy a 6.5% tax on the sale of all firearms, firearm accessories and ammunition in the state was recently approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee and is now being considered on the Senate floor. Other measures involving a permitting system for firearms retailers, gun owner liability insurance requirements and firearms storage area also still under consideration.
With the ferocity by which anti-gun Democrat lawmakers pushed the gun ban measure this spring, it likely won’t surprise anyone if the matter comes up again in the next legislative session. In fact, gun-ban advocates have already promised that it will be considered again.
“I look forward to renewing and continuing those discussions over the interim,” Sen. Gonzalez told the committee. “It is clear that survivors of devastating gun violence, responsible gun owners and local and national policy advocates remain committed to doing the work necessary to save lives—and an assault weapons ban will do just that.”
A battle was won. And the war continues.
Better endless war then indefinite servitude…….shame that concept is increasingly lost to history.
That cuts both ways. After the bills are passed, then there is endless war to have them declared unconstitutional; meanwhile, those bills typically go into effect, resulting in endless servitude.
Not saying we shouldn’t fight smarter but we at least have to start fighting.
save lives and an Assualt Weapons ban will do just that pause not
Gun Control is far from dead and buried. After all it’s been around wreaking havoc for centuries and with the help from some certain Gun talking blowbags it isn’t going anywhere…blowbags are too busy giving their bigoted pals a pass and slandering those who pull the wagon and have the intellect, integrity to Define Gun Control by it History…Defining Gun Control for those like the spoiled brat dope smokers in Colorado, misguided useful idiots who assume Gun Control is the cat’s meow like these Gun Control history illiterate brown shirts in TN…
Oh good grief.
An armed teacher, eeeegads.
If there’s anyone who knows blowbags, it’s deb the dunce with her endless yammering…
“Other measures involving a permitting system for firearms retailers, gun owner liability insurance requirements and firearms storage area also still under consideration.”
Not in this session or electoral cycle. The session ended yesterday.
If it’s like Illinois they’ll hollow out an unrelated bill, put the text of it in it and pass that.
“After being besieged by a number of anti-gun bills during this legislative session, Colorado gun owners have a big victory to claim for the Second Amendment.”.
No we don’t. The headline and article are bullshit. We didn’t win shit. My one hundred dollars to RMGO and FPC and GOA is a drop in the bucket. That cocksucker Polis has pockets as deep as his throat. I’m hoping RMGO kicks ass though. Fuck You pole smoking bitch.
Successful delaying actions may be viewed as a “win” if they allow for the movement/repositioning of other resources, which this does.
Every penny FPC and RMGO don’t spend on fighting an AWB is one they can use to fight something that did pass.
Every penny Conservative groups don’t use to organize resistance to an AWB can, likewise, be used to organize something else (if Conservatives ever get their asses in gear, which based on my personal experience of formerly living in Adams county will take another 10 years because the old guard are going to have to literally die before anything significantly different will be done).
It’s kinda weird to live in a “home rule” county that’s rational and in Colorado. In some ways it’s like not living in Colorado and getting to watch the crazy happen.