Republican lawmakers and gun owners filed a lawsuit against Colorado Gov. Jared Polis Thursday, claiming he signed a gun bill into law in violation of the state constitution.
The lawsuit, filed on the second to last day of the 2019 legislative session, seeks to stop Polis from spending “unlawful government expenditures” on the creation of a law that allows police or family members of a gun owner to file an Extreme Risk Protection Order.
The protection order bars the gun owner from possessing or purchasing guns for nearly a year and requires the surrender of all their firearms and concealed carry permit. The owner must then prove not to be a threat in order to have the guns and permit returned.
The complaint claims lawmakers failed to read the bill at length before passing it through the House and Senate, a requirement put in place by the state’s founders in 1876 to “prevent, so far as possible, fraud and trickery and deceit and subterfuge in the enactment of bills and to prevent hastily and ill-considered legislation.”
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