
Colorado lawmakers introduced a sweeping gun-control bill on the first day of the state’s 2025 legislative session this month. The bill would prohibit the manufacture, purchase, sale, and transfer of semi-automatic rifles and shotguns with detachable magazines within the state of Colorado. It would place the same prohibitions on gas-operated semi-auto handguns with detachable magazines, and it would reclassify “rapid-fire devices” as dangerous (i.e. prohibited) weapons under state law.
Sen. Tom Sullivan (D-27) introduced Senate Bill 3. The legislation has three additional primary sponsors and more than 35 additional sponsors in the House and Senate. All of them are Democrats. These legislators, many of whom have introduced or supported gun-control legislation in years past, say the bill will allow the state to better enforce its existing “high-capacity magazine” ban, a law passed in 2013 that bans magazines that hold more than 15 rounds of ammunition.
But Colorado hunters, gun owners, and other Second Amendment advocates are speaking out strongly against the bill. These groups say the legislation goes too far and would run afoul of the legal precedent set by the U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. v Heller. In that case, the court noted that states cannot ban entire classes of firearms.
“This legislation is short-sighted,” National Shooting Sports Foundation managing director of public affairs Mark Oliva tells Outdoor Life. “It will affect anyone wanting to purchase any firearm with a detachable magazine and make those firearms unavailable for sale in the state of Colorado. There are serious questions over whether or not this is even Constitutional, given the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Heller.”
SB3 defines a “specified semiautomatic firearm” as “a semiautomatic rifle, shotgun with a detachable magazine, or gas-operated semiautomatic handgun with a detachable magazine.” The legislation would make it illegal to knowingly manufacture, distribute, transfer, sell, or purchase one. Guns with detachable magazines already owned in Colorado would be grandfathered in, and current owners of these firearms would be allowed to keep them. Future transfers would be heavily restricted under the new law, however, and limited to direct heirs, individuals residing outside of Colorado, or federally licensed firearm dealers.
The first violation would be a class 2 misdemeanor, with the second and subsequent offenses escalating to a class 6 felony. This could result in up to 18 months in prison and fines between $1,000 and $100,000. It would also make the person ineligible to own a firearm. Gun dealers who violate the law would have their licenses revoked.
— Colorado Gun Bill Seeks to Ban Semi-Auto Sales, Transfers in the State
Alice Jones Webb in
Colorado isn’t introducing these bills, a bunch of idiot democrats are. They tried something similar last year and it failed. And the year before. And so on. This one will most likely fail in one or both houses. And even if it does pass, it’s not likely that our governor, liberal as he is, will sign it. They’ve managed to get several less obtrusive bills through, but since the magazine limit bill passed, which resulted in the successful recall and removal of the 2 bozos who introduced it, nothing of that scope has gotten out of the legislature.
Outside of the Denver and Boulder metro areas, Colorado is pretty solidly conservative or moderate. Not sure how much longer that will last as we continue to be Californicated. The number of people moving here has dropped off a good bit, but I’m guessing the destruction in California may bump it up for awhile, and they will bring their ideologies and vote for the same type of idiots who made their home state unlivable. The very definition of insanity.
This is what you get when the h0m0sexu@ls and pot heads take over your state. Because both groups are s0ci@list pr0gressive in their political orientation.
Both have never believed in Liberty.