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Spearheaded by Democratic lawmakers, a suite of nine anti-gun bills has been proposed in the state of Colorado, marking a shaper turn to California-style politics and views, that will severely harm the quality of life for all Coloradans. Conservative media outlets have pointed out in past days how these measures, if passed, could introduce a range of negative consequences, disproportionately impacting the most vulnerable segments of society and infringing upon fundamental rights.

The proposed legislation includes a broad spectrum of restrictions, from the outright ban on “assault weapons” to imposing an 11% tax on ammunition and gun sales. Additionally, there are plans to limit where firearms can be carried, enforce mandatory storage of firearms in vehicles, and overhaul the current system for concealed carry training. Each of these measures, while crafted with the intention of reducing gun violence, carries with it a host of unintended repercussions.

First and foremost, the ban on semiautomatic rifles, including popular models like the AR-15, is a contentious issue. Critics, such as Colorado Springs firearms instructor Ava Flanell, told the Denver Gazette that such bans have historically failed to impact crime rates positively. Instead, they have led to the closure of gun stores, as seen in Washington state, without making a dent in criminal activities. This not only impacts local businesses but also strips law-abiding citizens of their ability to purchase firearms for self-defense and recreational purposes.

The imposition of an 11% tax on ammunition and gun sales is another area of concern. This additional financial burden may not deter criminals, who often do not acquire their weapons through legal channels, but it will undoubtedly make it more challenging for lower-income individuals to exercise their Second Amendment rights. In essence, this tax could create a scenario where only the wealthy have the means to protect themselves, exacerbating the divide between different socioeconomic classes.

Furthermore, restricting where guns can be carried and mandating vehicle storage introduces practical challenges for gun owners. These measures may inadvertently increase the risk of theft and complicate the logistics of transporting firearms safely. The increase in concealed carry training requirements, while seemingly benign, raises questions about accessibility and affordability for everyday citizens wishing to exercise their right to carry.

Among the proposed bills, Senate Bill 24-131, which aims to bar guns from sensitive spaces, and House Bill 24-1353, requiring state permits for gun dealers, stand out for their potential to complicate the landscape of gun ownership further. These bills not only increase the bureaucratic hurdles for owning and selling firearms but also signal a shift towards more centralized control over gun regulations, away from the existing federal framework.

Critics argue that these measures, rather than addressing the root causes of gun violence, focus disproportionately on law-abiding citizens. This approach overlooks the complexities of criminal behavior and the myriad factors contributing to violence in society. Moreover, by making it increasingly difficult for individuals to comply with the law, these proposed regulations might drive a wedge between gun owners and law enforcement, undermining trust and cooperation in the process.

The potential for these laws to infringe on constitutional rights cannot be understated and the danger their approval would pose to citizens of the state are real.

The Second Amendment, while subject to interpretation and debate, has been a cornerstone of American liberties. By imposing stringent controls and financial barriers on gun ownership, Colorado risks setting a precedent that could erode individual freedoms and ignite legal battles that stretch far beyond its borders. Quality of life in Colorado began a marked decline with the open legalization of marijuana and progressive leaders want to take that destruction a step further. All Americans need to take note. The blight of Cancerfornia has spread to yet another once-great state and threatens to overwhelm all of the country unless good Americans stand up and push back.

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  1. “Cancerfornia” a good label for anything coming out of the leftist c0mmun!st utopia of CA.

    • Cancerfornia was already here in ILLannoy. Or worse. They sometimes have better weather(it’s snowing right now!). Now we have a measles outbreak. Dims sUcK🙄

      • Mostly rain out this way but may see snow later. Do have the migrant measles in a few locations now though.

      • Fun fact:

        Snow is forecast here in SoCal this Friday night. Going to be down in the 30s for much of the L.A. Basin and surrounding valleys, and upper 20s for mountains and high desert. Very rare for us this late in the year.

        This is the conclusion of the third rain season in a row in which we’ve had above average precipitation, meaning the long term (two decades rolling average, I believe). Two years ago, above avg. Last year, double the avg. This year, +50% over avg. Our reservoirs are all full, and were designed decades ago to supply water for five years in times of drought. $100 says we’ll be back in “drought conditions” again soon because of how much water is released into the ocean due to Speckled Delta Fish or Spotted Owl or MyLittlePony endangered whatsamajigger.

        • Haz,

          But, but, but . . . what about Globull Warmening??????? Isn’t the world supposed to die from heatstroke???

          I lived in SoCal for a good part of my adult life (mostly in the LA area) and . . . it actually DOES rain, very rarely snows, and I even experienced a tornado (no lie; a VERY large, mature pine tree in my front yard was upended by a twister, IN Southern California). California has great weather; I am looking forward to moving back there to reclaim the land after Gavin Gruesome and the Idiot Caucus in Sackatomatoes drives the state into financial disaster, and all the freeloaders move elsewhere.

          The state is a beautiful place, but . . . well, a joke I heard was on point. It seems God was in the middle of creating the world, with the angels looking over His shoulder, and they were whispering to themselves behind him. Finally, one brave angel stepped up and said, “Lord, we are confused. You have tried to balance good things and bad things around the world you are creating, but you’ve spent so long on California, and we don’t understand why you’ve put SO MANY great gifts into that one locality?”. God smiled and said, “Heh!! Wait until you see the toe-sucking MORONS I’m going to put in charge!!!”

          It is a beautiful place . . . ruled by toe-sucking morons.

  2. It’s not about safety, it’s about confiscation. So just say that and stop pussyfooting around.

  4. Oh, look, things I posted in the comment section days ago. I’m flattered.

    However, the article fails to mention that 24% of the Colorado legislature is unelected and, so far as any rational observer can tell, those members don’t much care if they get reelected or not.

    It would appear that they’re mostly gunning for a major promotion to a well paid NGO/activist job or a position within the higher ranks of the Party behind the scenes, such as in the DCCC or DNC.

    They’re playing the tune they know a certain audience wants to hear because, for them, this is an audition.

    On the plus side all the local LGSs have plans to deal with this. Sell a gun for $0.01 and the box for the rest of the price to avoid the excise tax, for example.

    The AWB, if passed, is the most problematic IMHO. For pure FFLs it’s death. It bans an estimated 80% of guns and there’s no way they can survive that long enough for the law to be struck down.

    The combined businesses, such as FFLs that also own a pawn shop, know they can stay afloat longer and, if that passes, are planning to stock up big time prior to the ban taking effect so that they can take over the market when the AWB goes down in flames to a court decision.

    That’s pro-small business right there, huh?

    • I’m curious…how can legislators be non-elected persons? Who would be appointing these people, then? There are certain situations in which a person (such as Governor in CA) may appoint a replacement for an outgoing elected official such as a Senator (due to death, retirement, resignation, transfer to another elected office).

      The CO General Assembly consists of 100 members – 35 Senators and 65 Representatives. Are you saying that a whopping 24 Legislators within that body were appointed, not elected?

      • Pretty simple actually. The person that was elected vacated the position for various reasons (many was Biden put them in some position in the federal government), and then Emperor Polis the First of Boulder (the only part of the state he listens to is Boulder, the rest of us are pond scum to him) instead of holding an election to fill the vacancy, appointed people to replace them that are more extreme and would never have been able to win in the election.

      • Haz: Yes, that’s what I’m saying. Mark explains quite correctly how it happened.

        I just can’t tell if the in-house belief (that is, within the Colorado Democratic Party) is that these previously unelectable nutbars are now electable thanks to the influx of Californians and that this is believed since Polis had the same basic experience as DeSantis. (Winning his first election by a slim margin and his reelection by a landslide.)

        Also, Mark, “Emperor Polis the First of Boulder” got a pretty good chuckle out of me. That right there is directly over the target.

    • “On the plus side all the local LGSs have plans to deal with this. Sell a gun for $0.01 and the box for the rest of the price to avoid the excise tax, for example.”

      That works in the short turn, until they amend it later…

      • Whether or not they’ll be able to do that is an open question.

        1. I can’t imagine the current US court system allowing a tax on an enumerated right and Dems don’t run the court system yet. (Though going forward 10 years I have my concerns for several reasons.)

        2. They’d have to catch on and then go through the process to *fix* it before the election.

        It’s hard to tell what the actual electoral makeup of Colorado is at this point in time. Polis’ reelection wasn’t terribly shocking because out of the Blue State governors he did the *best job* “on Covid” by far. He bucked the Dems so hard they had to start calling him “The Maverick” to spin it to the public that somehow Polis was the one guy doing these things who wasn’t, somehow, going to kill grandma.

        We’ll see how it shakes out. The same question comes to mind in other states due to other goings-on. Several states have had some very, very strange things going on with voter registration in terms of the SSA returning information that massive numbers of people “registered to vote” who are actually dead.

        This seems to come in tranches, so far it’s been noted in both Texas and IIRC, Missouri. I think it was Missouri that had the SSA bounce back “Single Match Found – Deceased” on like 23K voter registration apps in a single week, about 1 in 3 applications that week.

        Anomaly? “Election fortification”? Data reporting issue? Entry Error? Who knows?

  5. Maybe they’re misinterpreting the Beach Boys’ lyrics as ” I wish they all could be California rules “…

    • oh gee, look out below – its debby regurgitating her speil from the last 8200 posts. Really, its time for something new an original. what does gfy mean honey?
      ECHO ECHO ECHO

    • BTW…My message to any and all Gun Control zealots is the same as my message to any and all bigots…gfy.

      • yyyyyaaaaaaWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNN!

        The stinky snatch has shown up to spout her usual spiel. She’s like a f*rt; she stinks for a while and then goes away.

    • Debbie One-Note,

      Wow!!! Did you manage to post THE SAME DAMN POST you’ve subjected us to a hundred times??? Good girl, here’s your cookie!!

      Now, do us ALL a favor, and actually try to think and post something ORIGINAL, that reflects that there MIGHT be a semblance of thought in that (apparently) empty skull of yours.

  7. “Each of these measures, while crafted with the intention of reducing gun violence…”

    Assumes facts not in evidence.

    “…those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
    – – C.S. Lewis

    • Sam I Am,

      I came to call attention to that problematic assertion as well.

      I believe the actual intention is multi-faceted. One intention is to harass, humiliate, and subjugate political enemies. Another intention is to burnish up their qualifications for cushy positions in other entities as strych9 stated above. Yet another intention is to increase violent crime and chaos so that the masses cry out for more government solutions–which is nothing more than a gateway to increase the power, control, and wealth of the Ruling Class.

    • “Each of these measures, while crafted with the intention of reducing gun violence”

      I was just gonna say BULLSHIT!

      • Nah, you have it all wrong! Depriving law abiding citizens of their guns will mean there will be fewer guns for bad guys to steal, leading to fewer guns being sold on the street, resulting in less gun violence. See, perfectly logical, amiright?

        • Bad guys will then steal from the government……hoodrats will join Nat’l Guard, work hard, get promoted, climb the ladder, and then, one night. the entire contents of the Guard’s armory get stolen. I’d bet 20% of our military grunts are Cartel Sicarios getting FREE advanced training.

        • Hund,

          The gangbangers are WAY ahead of you, dude. They’ve been stealing guns from the government (sometimes with the ACTIVE participation of the government, cf. “Operation Fast and Furious”) for YEARS.

          And buying “Glock switches”, etc.

          For some stupid reason, the Leftist/fascist idiots can’t get their tiny little minds around the concept that . . . criminals don’t obey the law. Works a treat for targeting law-abiding citizens, though!

  8. “…torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
    – – C.S. Lewis”

    With all due respect to CS Lewis, deserting all obligation to host a conscience is a primary reason they become commies in the first place.

  11. Colorado voters need to take a long hard look at the persons they elect to law making office. Looks like at least some of those they elect to law making office wouldn’t come close to passing a respect for constitutional rights test. They likely wouldn’t do all that well on a Common Sense exam either.

    • Alan,

      Friend . . . you are making the (unwarranted) assumption that the majority of Colorado voters didn’t vote for EXACTLY what they wanted. Since, practically speaking, Denver and Boulder control state politics (and they are busy subverting Colorado Springs), the “Colorado voters” are getting EXACTLY what they voted for, and intended.

    • Colorado voters knowingly and enthusiastically voted for this anti-civil rights ho-‘mo-‘sex’-ual governor. This guy is as anti-civil rights as any governor, from the former Confederate States of America.

      It’s really interesting how people are very comfortable losing their civil rights. When it’s being done by the elected h0-m-0-sex-u@l leadership.

      A colorado voters will be very comfortable slaves. Enjoying the legal b-u-t-t sex and drugs, in the tyranny that they voted for.

  12. Colorado voters need to take a long hard look at the persons they elect to law making office. Looks like at least some of those they elect to law making office wouldn’t come close to passing a respect for constitutional rights test. They likely wouldn’t do all that well on a Common Sense exam either.

    You say “duplicate comment”. The above is not a duplicate of any comment I’m made here, that ha been published.

  14. The sexual liberation crowd, the drug leg@lizati0n crowd, have always been s0ci@list pr0gressive in their political 0rient@ti0n.

    They have never supported the Second Amendment.They have never supported the Bill of Rights, but they do support having a good time.

    • No person who supports the Bill of Rights also supports drug Prohibition. Drug prohibition and the corruption it nutures are an artifact of the attack on the BoR by progressive (ie, leftist) forces that began in earnest the early 1900s. Historically, drug prohibition, the dilution of property rights and weapon bans have marched in lockstep across the legal landscape of our fair Nation.

      You serve what you claim to oppose.

      • I’m on record here Supporting leg@liz@ti0n. What I will never support is removing responsibility and consequences.

        But you do believe in not holding addicts responsible for stealing. You don’t believe in addicts facing the consequences for the actions they took.

        You don’t believe in locking up drug addicts when they steal. When they break into and vandalize private property. Because you complain the jails are overcrowded.

        No, you have never believed in the Bill of Rights.

        But you do believe in handing out “free” condoms. “Free” HivAids treatment. “Free” needles and a “free” government Doctor to monitor drug addicts. So they don’t overdose and die. Because of the drugs they voluntentirely put into their bodies.

      • I support property owners being able to kill thieves dead on the site. But you don’t support that. And you don’t support the police chasing after these criminals who steal. Because stealing is not an important crime for you.

        What does raising the level of a misdemeanor up to $950, have to do with making marijuana legal in California???

  15. Once again the colorado governor’s name is missing from the article. They just can’t speak his name. Why???

    No problem speaking Murphy or Newsom. But not the mile high governor’s name.

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