First draft of ballot initiative

Unfortunately it needs to be written by a lawyer.

Too broad and so too easily demogogued. "OMG! This initiative will legalize machine guns!" will be the cry of gun control activists and news anchors.

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Originally Posted by newracer

Unfortunately it needs to be written by a lawyer.

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I agree, so the question becomes how do we get the NRA, Magpul, and other organizations that can provide good legal help.

Then the next step is collecting signatures.

No, the next step is raising enough money to buy signature collection firms, and to buy media ad time. You can't pass a ballot initiative without millions of dollars.

I would love to help get this rolling, but I'm not sure if I have anything to offer other than my signature. :-/

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Originally Posted by 10mm-man

^^^ Man that would be nice! Glad Zundfolge wrote that up! Sure beats the; "let's pack up and run crowd!" But they will be gone shortly- THANK GOD!

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No need for that... And most of us were saying we're considering... that is if crap gets bad enough here (at least I'm only in the thinking-about-it stage).

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Originally Posted by Zundfolge

To get on the ballot it must get enough signatures to get on the ballot (The number of signatures required for a successful petition is equal to 5% of the total number of votes cast for the office of Secretary of State in the preceding general election. so in this case 86,105).

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86,102 to go ...

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Originally Posted by spqrzilla

Too broad and so too easily demogogued. "OMG! This initiative will legalize machine guns!" will be the cry of gun control activists and news anchors.

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Gun control activists will certainly demagogue it and lie about it but that's why the last line shuts them down. The initiative changes nothing about machine guns under the law.

This does nothing but reset the law to what it is now and holds it there.

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Originally Posted by wreave

Looks very good at first glance.

An important question is how it applies to existing Colorado law regarding firearms. This seems like it would repeal (or lead to repeal of) current state laws such as gun show background checks. What about the current Denver 20-round magazine ban, Denver ban on open carry, etc.?

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As written it probably would shut down the Denver bans and gun show background checks. So maybe the language has to be tweaked (I would just as soon get rid of those too, but its more important that we get our rights 'locked in' now and worry about cleaning up the crap in places like Denver later).

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Two part question:
-is it the intent of the proposed amendment to repeal all current laws on firearms?
-if not, how are current laws "grandfathered" in?

Other current laws include the concealed carry law. Is that a restriction on 2A rights? Constitutional Carry supporters would say it is.

So at first glance, you're on the right track, but I think we have some issues to iron out.

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That's why I posted it, we need feedback and input from people smarter than me (also I have no idea how to organize the petition drive part of this and certainly have no money to fund it :p ).

The intent of the proposed amendment is to prevent them from being able to ban "assault" weapons, require universal background checks, register guns or owners, force us to pay additional taxes or "fees" and prevent them from banning any magazines.

Basically I want the laws of Colorado to get no more restrictive than they are right now. Someday I'd like to roll back some of the dumb laws, but for now I just want to put the brakes on.