LadyJazzer wrote: And this, just a short time ago:
Bill That Bans High-Capacity Magazines, Limits Them To 15 Rounds Passes Colorado Senate Committee
A bill that bans the manufacture and sale of high-capacity magazines in Colorado and places a limit on them to only 15 rounds per magazine passed in Colorado Senate committee, Monday evening.
The Senate Judiciary Committee passed House Bill 1224 on a 3-2 party line vote as hundreds of gun rights advocates filled the state Capitol in protest of the seven gun control bills being debated today in the state legislature. Read the full text of HB-1224 here
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"This bill is an attempt to reduce the slaughter," Senate sponsor of the bill Sen. Mary Hodge (D-Brighton) said, The Denver Post reports.
One of the most vocal opponents of the bill, Magpul -- an Erie-based gun accessory manufacturer, one of the largest gun accessory makers in the nation -- had threatened to leave the state if the bill were to pass. Richard Fitzpatrick, founder and CEO of Magpul, reiterated those sentiments today during the hearing for the bill.
Gee, Mr. Fitzpatrick, (founder and CEO of Magpul), don't let the door hit ya on the way out....
Yes, boot out the companies that are paying taxes and providing good paying jobs, give tax credits to places like Vestas instead that are laying off people and net drains on a state.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Welllll, looks like ALL SEVEN bills cleared the Senate committees...And will likely go to the Governor's desk by the end of the month....
Colorado Lawmakers Advance Seven Sweeping Gun Control Measures In Senate Committee
DENVER -- A series of sweeping gun-control measures in Colorado is on track to hit the governor's desk by the end of the month, with Democratic committees in the Legislature advancing all the bills despite a Capitol packed with hundreds of opponents and surrounded by cars circling the Capitol blaring their horns.
Gun limits including expanded background checks and ammunition magazine limits were helped Monday by testimony from the husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and victims of mass shootings in Connecticut and suburban Denver.
Colorado has become a focus point in the national debate over what new laws, if any, are needed to prevent gun violence after recent mass shootings, including an attack at an Aurora movie theater last summer – a massacre that brought to mind the Columbine High School shooting of 1999 for many in the state and across the nation.
The seven gun-control measures cleared their committees on 3-2 party-line votes and are planned for debate by the full Senate by Friday. Four of the seven have already cleared the House, making it possible some of them will land on the desk of Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper within weeks.
Also not a surprise that the NRA/RMGO folks packing the place "kept it classy", shouting obscenities and threats... It's a shame they had to leave their beer in the truck...I'm sure we would have been treated to an even better display.
Every one of the bills passed in committee by straight party line vote. Seems to me they are taking their marching orders from the DNC/O administration and not the good people of Colorado. Lets see what happens when the bills are on the floor of the full Senate, where it really counts. There are Senators who are representing constitutes who did not have the chance to vote for those Senators. SD 16 is one example Jeanne Nicholson now represents an area that was not in her district prior to the Gerrymandering by the Democrats. Based on her last election, I can guarantee, if she supports the slate of anti 2nd amendment bills. she has won her last election as state Senator.
But I thought you guys LOVED gerrymandering?....(As long as it worked in your favor...?) I guess I'll have to work as hard for her reelection as I did ensuring Obama won in Jefferson County. (Did you get the memo?... We WON in Jefferson County...)
I remember when you guys declared that "Obama had won his last election as president" last year too... How'd that work out for ya?
It's a good thing that NONE of the bills violate the 2nd Amendment.
Colorado Democrats' gun liability plan is wishful thinking
It's hard to figure what the end game is for statehouse Democrats who have proposed legislation that would allow gun manufacturers and sellers to be liable for damage inflicted by assault weapons.
The immediate problem with the idea, pitched by Senate President John Morse, is that it clearly conflicts with existing federal law that does not allow such litigation.
To think that Congress will repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act is to engage in fantasy. This Congress will brawl over whether to enact even the least controversial of gun-control measures: universal gun background checks. Yet Morse is counting upon a repeal in tossing the idea out among otherwise rational measures to address gun violence announced Tuesday at the state Capitol.
If something conflicts with existing federal law, then it doesn't much matter if it passes--It will get overturned...If we get 6 out of 7, I'll be a happy camper...
How'd that work out for ya?
