welcome to New Calirado!
what part of "shall not be infringed" dont they understand???
I understand it is like 10 to 1 in opposition to this bill, but moves along despite it. seems to me its a well written play and the ending is also written.
we'll see what happens after it goes to court.
from our state association.
Semi-Auto Ban Clinches Final Approval in the Senate
Senate Bill 25-003, or the Semi-Automatic Firearm Ban and Gun Owner Registry, just passed its third and final vote in the state Senate and will now advance to the even more anti-gun state House of Representatives. If it makes it through the House, the bill’s next stop will be Governor Polis’s desk for signature into law.
Senate Bill 3, in its original form, sought to entirely ban access to a majority of semi-automatic firearms commonly used for self-defense, home defense, and sport shooting. However, out of fear they wouldn’t be able to secure the governor’s support for the bill, they effectively re-wrote it with a litany of amendments, somehow managing to make it even worse.
Under Senate Bill 3 in its new form, Coloradans will be eligible to purchase any of the firearms this bill restricts only if they’ve completed the following actions:
- Received from their Sheriff, after submitting their fingerprints for a criminal background screening, an eligibility/ID card that qualifies them to participate in a firearms safety course.
- Having received the eligibility/ID card from their Sheriff, completed an extended firearms safety course within five years before the purchase, or completed both a hunter safety course and a basic firearms safety course within five years before the purchase.
- Having completed all the steps above, passed an exam testing their knowledge of the safety course’s subject matter with a score not less than 90 percent.
To receive the above-mentioned eligibility/ID card, you must pay a processing fee to the Sheriff’s Office. To take the required courses, you must pay a fee, in an amount not yet determined, to the instructor of the course, who will then remit the fee to the state to fund a gun owner registry you will be required to submit your name to.
The creation of a gun owner registry is almost always an early step governments take in the process of confiscating arms.
And to top it all off, the bill allows your local Sheriff to make a subjective judgement call on his or her own perception of your moral character to determine if you can even get to the starting line of the lengthy process required to obtain “permission” to exercise your rights.
A right, by definition, is not something the government permits you to exercise.
In summary, this is a terrible gun bill that flies in the face of freedom. The fight to defeat it is far from over.
