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  • Jim12

    Let Freedom Ring
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    Jan 30, 2013
    33,861
    Michael Bloomberg is a very busy guy control freak, with very deep pockets and a wide network.
     

    Threeband

    The M1 Does My Talking
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    Dec 30, 2006
    25,232
    Carroll County
    Does Colorado have state preemption? This is exactly the sort of abuse that demonstrates the importance of premption laws.
     

    CrazySanMan

    2013'er
    Mar 4, 2013
    11,390
    Colorful Colorado
    Does Colorado have state preemption? This is exactly the sort of abuse that demonstrates the importance of premption laws.
    WOULD COLORADO’S FIREARM PREEMPTION LAW STOP BOULDER’S ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN?
    https://www.9news.com/mobile/articl...top-boulders-assault-weapons-ban/73-536113594

    Colorado's complicated Constitution makes finalizing assault weapons ban in Boulder harder than it looks. And both gun control and gun rights advocates think they might use that to their advantage.



    After a story on Thursday night about Boulder’s potential assault weapons ban, many Next viewers e-mailed wondering if the proposal would violate a state law that passed in 2003.

    Specifically, C.R.S. 29-11.7-103:

    A local government may not enact an ordinance, regulation, or other law that prohibits the sale, purchase, or possession of a firearm that a person may lawfully sell, purchase, or possess under state or federal law. Any such ordinance, regulation, or other law enacted by a local government prior to March 18, 2003, is void and unenforceable.

    That law, championed by Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, was intended to prevent cities from creating blanket restrictions on firearm laws.

    “What it means is a city can’t just go out and create its own laws,” said Dudley Brown, who founded Rocky Mountain Gun Owners. “It explicitly spells out that cities cannot do this.”

    Boulder’s city attorney, who drafted the ordinance, told city council Thursday, that the state constitution’s provision for home rule municipalities would allow Boulder to create this ban.

    “In Colorado, Article 20, section 6 of the Colorado State’s Constitution says that local home rule cities have the ability to supersede state law on areas of local and municipal concern,” City Attorney Tom Carr told council.

    He also pointed to a court case immediately after the Denver law passed.

    “Denver sued the state asserting that it had the right as a home rule city to take a series of firearm restrictions, one of which was an assault weapons ban and the district court in that case said yes, it was a matter of local concern,” Carr told council.

    Brown disagrees.

    “The home rule exemption doesn’t apply to everything and it certainly doesn’t apply to a fundamental right,” he said.

    He also said RMGO is considering a lawsuit if Boulder’s proposal passes city council.

    But Brown conceded if Boulder’s ban is allowed under the home rule provision, more gun friendly towns could potentially start to loosen firearms restrictions in their city.

    “I did get a call from an unnamed city official who is considering running a bill or ordinance in their city to say that because they are a home rule city they don’t need to fall under the magazine ban that the state has enacted for the state of Colorado and therefore 30 round magazines would be legal,” Brown said.
     

    kohburn

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    Aug 15, 2008
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    "HOME RULE CITY" that pretty much negates the need for any state laws if every city has its own. not really an issue until you leave the city limits and travel through some others with the rules changing all along the way.
     

    kyserthehun

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    Jul 24, 2016
    113
    It seems like the bad news just keeps coming. With Trump being so divisive and republicans backing the removal of net neutrality I see democrats winning a lot more congressional seats. Does not bode well for the gun owning future.
     

    wabbit

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    Apr 29, 2010
    5,205
    It seems like the bad news just keeps coming. With Trump being so divisive and republicans backing the removal of net neutrality I see democrats winning a lot more congressional seats. Does not bode well for the gun owning future.

    It's the Democrat party that is divisive. They came unhinged after Hillary lost the election and all their actions are the direct result of this mortal wound to their self righteous arrogance.
     

    Bob A

    όυ φροντισ
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    Nov 11, 2009
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    The Alt-Left Dems are becoming a laughingstock. Soon they will be the only ones who take them(selves) seriously.
     

    Allen65

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    Jun 29, 2013
    7,063
    Anne Arundel County
    The Alt-Left Dems are becoming a laughingstock. Soon they will be the only ones who take them(selves) seriously.

    It would be comedy if there weren't enough of them to win D primaries. It's getting really tough for moderates of any kind to win in either party's primary system these days.
     

    Clump

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    Sep 19, 2008
    291
    Felton, DE
    It would be comedy if there weren't enough of them to win D primaries. It's getting really tough for moderates of any kind to win in either party's primary system these days.
    Check out the gaggle running for Montgomery County Council. They're trying hard to out-lib each other. Where does it end?
     

    5cary

    On the spreading edge of the butter knife.
    MDS Supporter
    Dec 30, 2007
    3,635
    Sykesville, MD
    The Alt-Left Dems are becoming a laughingstock. Soon they will be the only ones who take them(selves) seriously.

    Check out the gaggle running for Montgomery County Council. They're trying hard to out-lib each other. Where does it end?

    They're becoming Globalist European style Leftists. Not a laughing stock at all, but a serious threat. We laugh (our nervous laughter), while the Democrats edge us closer to the global norm. Time and momentum are on their side. It does not end until we are 'Europe'.

    The election of Trump was a correction. I can't see how it can stop the slide.
     

    BeoBill

    Crank in the Third Row
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    Oct 3, 2013
    27,060
    南馬里蘭州鮑伊
    The Alt-Left Dems are becoming a laughingstock. Soon they will be the only ones who take them(selves) seriously.

    The BIG problem with that is that the lunatics that are the laughingstock are the ones who come up with the zany ideas and write them into laws that we have to suffer under. And Little Napoleon has extremely deep pockets and a very long reach to fund them.

    Don't forget, he warned us last Fall that he would do this.
     

    RepublicOfFranklin

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    Mar 16, 2018
    1,137
    The ‘Dena - DPRM
    I’d love to see a CO town quit enforcing the NFA and claim home rule made them immune. If the SCOTUS doesn’t want to protect the second I feel it’s a foot race between liberal justices kicking the bucket / being replaced and Civil War 2 : Electric Boogaloo.


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    28Shooter

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    Sep 19, 2010
    8,206
    Baltimore, Maryland
    "...certified 85..." - The citizenry of Boulder are certainly showing their support of that law by their overwhelming compliance. Didn't California have about the same success with that type of law?
     

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