Denver Police are Ready to Collect

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I guess I don't understand how the hell anyone is falling for this thing in Denver, there is a state preemption law in place and this "law", it's a city ordinance and nothing more, is by definition illegal and apparently nobody is doing a damn thing about it besides laughing and joking. Granted I guess it will have to be tested in court, but the point is the State should be smacking the City/county of Denver upside the head, and they aren't. That's far more concerning to me than the rest of this circus.

Colorado Revised Statutes § 29-11.7-103 provides:

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.

Colorado Revised Statutes § 29-11.7-101(2) refers to the regulation of firearms as a matter of “statewide concern” and declares a need for statewide uniformity of regulation in the area of firearms. That statute also declares that inconsistency among local jurisdictions has an extraterritorial impact on state citizens and the general public.5

Moreover, section 18-12-105.6(2)(b) provides that:

[n]o municipality, county, or city and county shall have the authority to enact or enforce any ordinance or resolution that would restrict a person’s ability to travel with a weapon in a private automobile…while traveling into, through, or within, a municipal, county, or city and county jurisdiction….