Colorado Magazine ban - bill introduction this week

[mahabali]

http://www.9news.com/news/article/313124/339/Colorado-Democrats-propose-banning-high-capacity-magazines

Probably a dupe, but I did not see it. We need to blow up the phone lines this week.

KUSA - U.S. Congresswoman Diana DeGette has introduced a bill to ban high-capacity magazines, even as State Representative Rhonda Fields has introduced similar legislation at the state level.

High-capacity magazines contain more than 10 rounds of ammunition and were used during the Aurora theater shooting and at Sandy Hook Elementary.

"We have got to address the extraordinary gun violence that threatens our society," DeGette said on Sunday during a press conference about gun control.

"We can never stop an imbalanced young man from going into an elementary school with a gun. But we sure as heck can stop him from having these 30-round magazines that can shoot a whole classroom full of first graders in just a matter of a couple of minutes," she added.
Fields announced Sunday that she is proposing similar state legislation.
"I wasn't able to save my son, because he was murdered. He was ambushed alongside his fiance, and I'm here to say enough is enough," Fields said.

Their goals were echoed by about a half dozen protestors outside the Tanner Gun Show Sunday, and refuted by some of the hundreds who flooded the gun show.

"Banning high-capacity magazines, banning certain individual types of weaponry, doesn't reduce safety. And in fact, what it really does is makes legal gun owners then criminals," said James Newton, a Fort Collins gun owner. "It's essentially about limiting individual freedoms."

Dudley Brown, with Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, says he doesn't think banning high-capacity magazines will make schools any safer.

He says he thinks the better solution is to arm teachers and parents and even some administrators to keep kids safe.

[longbow]

I saw this over on barfcom, first I heard of it. Thanks for posting this up.

[mahabali]

I saw this over on barfcom, first I heard of it. Thanks for posting this up.

Thats where I found it too.

[generalmeow]

This isn't a Colorado magazine ban being proposed, it's a national ban. I don't think the national ban will happen. You had me worried for a second.

I don't doubt that they'll try to ban high cap magazines in Colorado. As long as I have the metric shit ton of 30rd mags I ordered delivered first.......

[hatidua]

As long as I have the metric shit ton of 30rd mags I ordered delivered first.......

then it's OK?

[mahabali]

then it's OK?

Not if they try to pull a California or New York on us.

[JohnTRourke]

not one more inch.

[jerrymrc]

then it's OK?

Be nice.

[ben4372]

As long as I have the metric shit ton of 30rd mags I ordered delivered first.......

I forget, is a metric shit ton heavier or lighter than a short shit ton?

[buffalobo]

This isn't a Colorado magazine ban being proposed, it's a national ban. I don't think the national ban will happen. You had me worried for a second.

I don't doubt that they'll try to ban high cap magazines in Colorado. As long as I have the metric shit ton of 30rd mags I ordered delivered first.......

KUSA - U.S. Congresswoman Diana DeGette has introduced a bill to ban high-capacity magazines, even as State Representative Rhonda Fields has introduced similar legislation at the state level.

High-capacity magazines contain more than 10 rounds of ammunition and were used during the Aurora theater shooting and at Sandy Hook Elementary.

"We have got to address the extraordinary gun violence that threatens our society," DeGette said on Sunday during a press conference about gun control.

"We can never stop an imbalanced young man from going into an elementary school with a gun. But we sure as heck can stop him from having these 30-round magazines that can shoot a whole classroom full of first graders in just a matter of a couple of minutes," she added.
Fields announced Sunday that she is proposing similar state legislation.
"I wasn't able to save my son, because he was murdered. He was ambushed alongside his fiance, and I'm here to say enough is enough," Fields said.

Their goals were echoed by about a half dozen protestors outside the Tanner Gun Show Sunday, and refuted by some of the hundreds who flooded the gun show.

"Banning high-capacity magazines, banning certain individual types of weaponry, doesn't reduce safety. And in fact, what it really does is makes legal gun owners then criminals," said James Newton, a Fort Collins gun owner. "It's essentially about limiting individual freedoms."

Dudley Brown, with Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, says he doesn't think banning high-capacity magazines will make schools any safer.

He says he thinks the better solution is to arm teachers and parents and even some administrators to keep kids safe.



The mag ban is being introduced here as well.