Colorado has proposed SB25-003, a law which would ban the manufacture, distribution, transfer, sale, and purchase of any semiautomatic firearm that has a detachable magazine, with the exception of .22 rimfire. First offense would be a misdemeanor, second offense a felony.
Exempt from this law is the government, colleges, and armed security guards that work for companies operating armored vehicles.
It also appears to establish a requirement to have a firearms license with required training that expires every 5 years and must be taught by a sheriff department approved instructor.
I hope this passes. This is so blatantly unconstitutional that there is no way it makes it through the courts.
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Boneman · February 19, 2025 at 6:01 am
I was rather puzzled by the “GOOD” part… until I read the last bit of the post. You got me there boss. Well done and AGREED.
Steve S6 · February 19, 2025 at 9:06 am
When found unconstitutional the legislators that voted for it need to be up on charges. Violating oath of office, treason, accomplice to murder (where people died due to lack of adequate self defense), etc.
TJ · February 19, 2025 at 10:27 am
CO used to be a great place to live. Got invaded by CA and OR zombies and is now a wasteland. Sad. Mostly the front range though.
TRX · February 19, 2025 at 11:02 am
I dunno… that’s just incremental step from New Jersey gun laws. No court has taken any case against them, as far as I know.
Divemedic · February 19, 2025 at 11:22 am
This law directly contradicts Heller, McDonald, and Bruer.
SoCoRuss · February 19, 2025 at 12:41 pm
Unfortunately, I live here. Would love to leave even with the increase costs elsewhere. But wife has health issues right now so I’m in a real bad quandary.
Base belief is I will NEVER give up my guns to any FUCKING one. I want to just live in peace the rest of my days. I truly pity the person who tries to fuck that up.
I don’t buy it will go to SCROTUS, there are multiple gun laws in various state they haven’t touched. SCROTUS has been well know for picking “certain” laws to end vs all of them. Funny how that is? Guess that’s due to the kidde vids of them on Lolita Island. Anyone who relies on SCROTUS or politicians to SAVE them is a fool.
The one good thing from 42 years of military and military G staff service is I know exactly who the true enemy is. Never waste yourself fighting the hired help imported from the shitholes of the world always go for the king and his staff.
Not that I’m condoning or suggesting violence at all. Just a comment on the still current state of this shit hole country.
Meanwhile on the national political front after 30 days: still no swat raids, perp walks , trails or hanging as of yet.
And Trumps DOJ dropped corruption harges on NYC mayor Adams? WTF.
Then Adams started attacking Trump administrations again? Double WTF.
Nolan Parker · February 19, 2025 at 1:01 pm
The Legislators took oaths. They are either too stupid to understand
Shall not be infringed
Or don’t care. Ignorance of the law is no defense.
Willfully attempting to strip the Right of the People Should come with pain.
Not being voted out. Jailed. Put the sorry jerks in jail. Take their pensions. Ruin them.
Just a few of those and this crap ends.
oldvet50 · February 19, 2025 at 2:03 pm
So… clip fed semi automatic firearms are OK? The container holding the ammo to be fed must have a spring to be considered a magazine. If the spring machanism is contained within the rifle, it is clip fed (think M1 Garand). The good thing about theses legislators is they do not understand weapons enough to write cogent laws, never mind their unconstitutionality.
Aussie · February 19, 2025 at 5:21 pm
Sounds exactly like the way our gun laws were & are implemented in Australia. A huge, extremely controversial massacre in Tasmania (Port Arthur) to get them implemented due to public outrage. Then follows the NEVER ENDING “reasonable” adjustments every few years. The regs ALWAYS get just a little bit tighter every time they are reviewed. Our largest state (WA) is now getting utterly reamed. Firearms groups are fighting back for once, but it’s TERRIBLE here. Also, there is sooooo much hidden about Port Arthur (kinda like the Las Vegas shooting).
Barefoot Peckerwood · February 19, 2025 at 6:18 pm
This CF has passed out of their state Senate. More than likely their House will.pass it as well. We’ll see how quickly SCOTUS gets it.
Some of the “western”, aka socialist, hunting groups are slobbering over this
lynn · February 19, 2025 at 7:07 pm
Yeah, Colorado has gone full wacko.
SoCoRuss · February 20, 2025 at 12:51 pm
As for the so called Hunting groups that support this crap, the idiots that don’t understand they are next. Once they start their shit with “real men don’t need anything but bolt actions”, the left will start a petition about banning Sniper rifles. Why do they get guns that can kill from “miles” away.
It always surprises me just how truly stupid the American public and gun owners are. Especially those on the right.
Its always been a divide and conquer approach from the commies but can the right see that OH FUCK NO. They just have to protect JUST what they agree with nothing else affects them in their small little minds and that’s how the right always loses in any contest on any subject.
But don’t worry the right will vote harder for Repubtards next time.
And don’t forget to give MORE money to the NRA and Rocky Mt Gun owners. Those groups have lots of high paid execs to fund. Those $5K suits ain’t cheap….
Hoping for SCROTUS to maybe save you a few years down the line is beyond stupid but that’s the usual way for the right. That HOPE for someone else to do the hard work is par for the course because the right is always allegedly too busy to actually DO anything. Then when things go bad, man listen to them bitch and moan about how unfair and UNCONSTITUTIONAL all this is, like that piece of paper means a fuck anymore.
Several of the small local guns shops around here are already saying they are tired of this and are looking to sell and if no buyers then close and leave. Which is part of the plan also.
One of them is an old friend who has tried to get people to go up to commie central in Denver to protest and make the same noise as the left. At most of the 3 trip occasions he got 6 people. Pretty much all old guys. Its the same in other areas. So it appears to me no one really cares or wants to be able to defend themselves and its all talk as usual from the right. So as usual people get the .gov they deserve in the end.
Divemedic · February 20, 2025 at 2:35 pm
So what do you suggest?
Robert · February 21, 2025 at 4:32 pm
What one might suggest next are actions which should not be suggested next, in this or any other online forum.
What does not work:
(1) Courts
(2) Elections
(3) Protests
I have been to protests. I have contacted public officials. I voted. I have supported legal actions. My personal experience is that none of that makes any difference at the State and local levels. The bad guys won a long time ago and they are still running things. They aren’t going to leave voluntarily.
The problem is that too many ordinary people really want a government machine they can use to screw over their neighbors. And they don’t like those “icky gun people” who might object. Government follows from that.
I don’t believe we are getting the government we deserve. But we are getting the government that we tolerate.
SoCoRuss · February 22, 2025 at 1:09 pm
Thank you Robert. Its nice to know you aren’t totally alone in the wilderness.
Yep tit for tat depending on YOUR side of things is the preferred way of this country now. Now that Trump is the latest Emperor, the ruling Oligarchs and their AI gods and all the data centers for spying on and controlling us are now suddenly good since they are “OURS” and will be used the way “WE” want them to be used to get even with “THEM”. Digital currency which is the easiest way to totally control us, we can only buy what is approved by our masters and was hated by the right but now that Trump is in and talking about installing it also that’s OK also.
Can you imagine what George Carlin’s comic routines would say now if he was alive still about the govt and the country we have now. Not even he could have imagine this mess.
This is now a country with a very large number of Bi-Polar psychotics…..
SoCoRuss · February 21, 2025 at 2:24 pm
DM,I’ve contemplated that A LOT. My military training tells me the best way to deal with commies but unless that’s in conjunction with a general problem causing uprising of pissed off folks, that will use the lefts tactics against them,it will just generate personal problems. But the people on the right just wont fight back using the lefts own rules!! So why get yourself problems when the general public or the right shows NO concern about it, I keep telling myself over and over again? The right always wants someone else to solve their self caused problems.
I’ve been to rallies in Denver and attended and testified at the hearings of many of these bullshit ideas. What good did it do me, nada. But it did get me more attention from CO .gov. Pulled over for bullshit or oh I’m sorry we lost your paperwork don’t worry you can file again next year tough shit it will cost you more money, a couple audits with the usual scare tactics that may work for normies but not for someone like me.I have watched the various wings of the right and especially gun owners fuck each other for decades. Divide and conquer has worked for centuries and still does with the American public’s intelligence levels. And the answer is ALWAYS we must vote harder for the Repubtards !!!!! It truly amazes me that they just wont learn what it takes to survive against commies. Every time someone uses the word liberal I want to scream. WE have been past the point of liberalism for decades, we are against each other and Commies , Red Guard and Bolsheviks now. Then throw in the Muslims and Gangs which truly makes us fucked from all sides. How many people on the right have read anything published by the left? If anyone with half a brain read Saul Alinskys, Rules for Radicals at a minimum you have all you really need. The left loves to write books telling how they will destroy us and no one reads them on the right. They wrote a book on stealing elections they they used here in CO and yet no one can grasp election rigging as it goes state by state.
But as i watch on various blogs, its the same comments posted now as 20-30 years ago?
I know I sound and am very bitter, sorry bout that. But after spending 42 years of my life trying to protect this country to be watching this crap is maddening.
The usual answer to your question is always get involved in elections, run for office. Follow the rules set by the people trying to wipe us out? I tried that by volunteering and what i learned saw and experienced turned me off to any current form of elections in this country. I watched the republican party and its “Conservative” (that word should be banned since its basically a lie for most people) minions attack good and honest people and give bullshit attack claims to Demo Commies so both sides could attack. I had been at election’s overseas where there were various UN observers countries and have seen elections there more free and valid than most elections here. You cant vote your way out of this, that ship has sailed and so far I see nothing being done to fix elections here.
But you asked if “I “have an suggestion or belief of ways needed to solve the issue, Yes, but since I’m a military realist, its all VERY targeted. Not condoning or suggesting violence OF COURSE, just my beliefs:). But since the right doesn’t have balls of that size to fight with anymore. then the basic way is, Let the complete collapse come, with the brutality and violence that comes with that, help it along. Fight the left with their own tactics and add monkey wrenching on top of it while its coming, everyone has names and addresses. That is the only way I see any chance of any form of our FUSA coming back. NO Politician or their masters on either parties side wants our country back especially the Oligarchs. They all want the same thing, MORE Money, MORE Power and total technological control of the slaves formerly know as citizens. They want the populations down to 500 million for the new Techno Feudalism of the world, their words not mine read their books and how they use the word CULL many times and watch their meetings its all online. In my eyes they will get it.
And we go into a dark age again with nothing but a whimper……..
Again sorry for the rant, this subject touched a very raw nerve. When you are somewhere and you see whats coming and cant move out of the way and cant stop it by yourself and not many seem to care. Its brutal on you.
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