Civil disobedience

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

Lefties do those stupid sit-in, bare breasts for this and that, useless stuff. Civil Disobedinece? Not very hard since the laws are flawed from the get-go. Unless you trade a gun or a standard cap mag with an undercover cop these laws are unenforceable. No post 7/1/2013 dated standard cap magazines and keep your pie hole shut, like you should anytime a LEO starts asking about your guns.

Both of these laws could have been alot worse, with NY as an indicator- and still look at the shit storm they raised. 2014 has 1994 written all over it, and then some.

The one thing I worry about is DPD not giving a crap about the laws and will be cuffing and stuffing anyone that can't provide a paper trail for a firearm or has a 15+ round magazine and making them sue to get their lives back. Hopefully if this happens either the DA will step in on these bogus busts or perhaps a court order making DPD actually follow the law.

If you want civil disobediance, that would be it, 17 round 9mm mags and 20rnd Pmags waved in the face of DPD and see what happens. Please make sure they are unloaded

Lot's of political and legal squabbles to go.....

[bryjcom]

I say we all go down there on 7/1/13, all stand next to each other in a big line, and with 30 round mags in hand, transfer them to the person on the right.

Since I came up with the idea, I get to be the last person on the right. We can call it "Mag Transfer Day"

[NightCat]

This popped up on Armslist...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

On July 2, 2013, over 500 Colorado citizens will engage in an act of mass civil disobedience to demonstrate the foolish, arbitrary, capricious and unconstitutional nature of the HB 13-1224 which will have gone into effect on the day before.

These Colorado citizens will gather in a public park in Aurora, Colorado. Each of these citizens will bring a single unloaded regular capacity magazine of the type that has been in common use in Colorado and nation wide since the 1980s, and which each of them owned and possessed prior to the effective date of the statute. The United States Supreme Court has made CLEAR that law abiding citizens have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms that are in common use. There are millions of such magazines in Colorado, and they have been lawfully owned and used by Colorado citizens for defense, sport, target shooting, competition, and other lawful use for decades. Yet this property will have been transformed overnight into a form of contraband.

At exactly 12:00 noon, these citizens will begin to pass their magazines to each other, one to the other, again and again, in contravention of Colorado's new prohibition against transfer of existing regular capacity magazines.

The number of magazines will not change.

The nature of the people will not change, nor will their non-violent nature.

The fact these people are your friends, neighbors, co-workers, and fellow citizens will not change.

The "lethality" of the crowd will not change.

The danger "on the streets" will not change.

The number of magazines in circulation will not change.

The fact that the magazines have not been utilized to project violence or do any evil will not change.

At any given moment, each person will be holding one magazine that existed on the day the law came into effect, just as they did when they arrived.

But during the course of this organized civil disobedience, the crowd will be committing over 30,000 misdemeanors per minute. They will do so in direct and defiant challenge of a blatantly unconstitutional law, and will be prepared for arrest. In the event of arrests, each person will refuse to plea bargain and will insist on trial by jury. In conjunction, the gun rights organizations listed below will be assisting these individuals' legal defense, and bringing a constitutional challenge of the law both facially and as applied.

This protest will occur contemporaneously with similar protests in other states where politicians have determined to run roughshod over Constitutional rights in an attempt to make a showing of "doing something" about violence, but who lack the courage and political will to take a close look at the mental health system and the systemic failures that resulted from phasing out institutional care while greatly increasing the dispensing of dangerous psychotropic drugs.

[T.rexford]

Now that's a great idea. Completely overwhelm the court system. its a DoS attack.

[scratchy]

Can we bring pitchforks, tar and feathers? (rhetorical statement)

[Aloha_Shooter]

They will do so in direct and defiant challenge of a blatantly unconstitutional law, and will be prepared for arrest. In the event of arrests, each person will refuse to plea bargain and will insist on trial by jury.

The bold red part is important. One thing the leftists have ignored in recent years as they've tried to have their cake and eat it too is that TRUE civil disobedience means being prepared to suffer the consequences of that disobedience (unlike the OWSers who wanted to blatantly violate numerous laws without any consequences). What effect does violating the Unintelligent Metal Box Control Act of 2013 have on my CHP renewal? Will those rat bastards use this as an opportunity to blacklist us all on our 4473s for future purchases?

[Epyon]

Definitely be ready for arrest in any protest, I like what T.rexford said about overwhelming the court system.

[kidicarus13]

"Overwhelming the court system" sounds like a good idea and may be effective on paper until you're the one getting arrested. Then you'll soon focus on, "Hey, why aren't all the others getting arrested?!" ...as they haul you off to get processed. Then you'll jump on COAR when released with a full head of steam and wonder where the post is about all those arrested during the demonstration and realize it was only you and two other guys that got arrested and the other two aren't even forum members. Then you'll post up about how you got arrested, can't afford the legal bill to fight the charge, how you'll fight to the death if they come-a-knocking for your guns, and the end with how much alcohol you've consumed while posting.

[gnihcraes]

Isn't the State Capital on State LAND, even though inside the "City" of Denver, can Denver DO anything about having a 30 round magazine on the State Property?

[jrock]

I have heard in the event of driving through extremely liberal states that it is best to break down your gun which effectively unqualifies it as a gun as it becomes just gun parts.

Would taking the spring out of a magazine qualify it as just parts allowing you to take said magazine into Denver territory?