Colorado bill would ban sale, transfer of assault weapons

[RandySF]

Two Democratic Colorado lawmakers introduced a long-awaited bill that would ban the sale and transfer of assault weapons in the state.

House Bill 23-1230 is sponsored by Rep. Elisabeth Epps of Denver and Sen. Rhonda Fields of Aurora. It has seven co-sponsors in the House, including Assistant Majority Leader Jennifer Bacon, and one co-sponsor in the Senate.

Missing from the bill is Democratic Rep. Andrew Boesenecker of Fort Collins, who was listed as a main sponsor in earlier leaked drafts of the bill.

Possession would not be prohibited.

“Assault weapons in civilian hands endanger Colorado’s streets, stores, restaurants, places of worship, music venues, schools, movie theaters and communities at large. With an assault weapon, even a firearms novice can perpetrate a mass-casualty incident,” the bill text reads.

The bill defines assault weapons based on features and does not name specific makes and models of firearms. An assault weapon would be defined as a semi-automatic rifle that can accept a detachable magazine and has one or more of the following features:




https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colorado-bill-would-ban-sale-transfer-assault-weapons

[FakeNoose]

1. This is awesome!

[roamer65]

2. The blue are getting bluer, the red redder.

1860.

Great law, but I see where the trend is heading.

[Cha]

3. Best of Good Luck!

Bobobert would fall off the edge.

[Kaleva]

4. A Ruger Mini-14 with a 20 round mag would not be considered an assault weapon

https://ruger.com/products/mini14RanchRifle/models.html

The guns shown in the link above fire the same round as many AR-15 style rifles fire.

[Aristus]

8. I'm sure the only topic of debate before this bill goes down in flames will be

what constitutes an 'assault rifle'.

Because gun nuts say nothing is an assault rifle, especially if the person calling it that has never fired one.

That's the way they think, when they bother to think at all.

[Kaleva]

10. We know what an assault rifle is. We don't know what an assault weapon is.

One can take two rifles, each capable of killing a large number of people quickly just as well as the other but one is banned while the other remains legal

[BlueManiac]

5. Glad they

listed the detachable stock and functional gernade launcher.

This will cover almost all guns used in the MAGA maggot's shootings.

[Timeflyer]

6. Sanity about guns--it's so unusual these days.

[SYFROYH]

7. Unfortunately, this won't do what people hope it will do.

ARs with a detachable magazine can still be bought. They just can't have any of the following features:

A pistol grip or other feature that could function as a grip for the non-trigger hand
A folding, telescoping, detachable or thumbhole stock that works to make the firearm smaller in order to conceal it
A flash suppressor
A functional grenade launcher
A shroud attached to the barrel
A threaded barrel

These are not the features that enhance the rate of fire.

[NickB79]

9. Indeed. There are AR's without any of these features

Fight Lite rifles and similar will become very popular in Colorado, and still be as lethal as a conventional AR-15. They even take AR mags.



Hell, there are pump-action AR's, like Troy Industries PAR-15, that completely circumvent this law by being non-semiautomatic, so they could have every feature legally. I even saw that a new lever-action AR was recently introduced.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

11. If I remember right, the gun used in Sandy Hook

Was compliant with the expired Federal ban and CT's state ban and would probably be legal under this proposal.

[SYFROYH]

13. Yes, the Sandy Hook AR was compliant with the CT AWB modeled after the Federal AWB

If you do an image search for Sandy Hook AR, you'll see a picture of it.

It does have a pistol grip and detachable mag permissible by the then AWB law.

The telescoping stock was pinned
It didn't have a flash suppressor and instead had a muzzle break
It didn't have a functional grenade launcher
The muzzle break was permanently attached to the threaded barrel
No bayonet lug

[SheltieLover]

12. Excellent! 👏👏👏👏

[Amishman]

14. All dependent on the Bruen based challenges to other states weapons bans

Thomas's impossible scrutiny test is already being leveraged by attempts to dismantle CA's weapons ban and others.

Problem is Thomas's historical test is impossible for pretty much any meaningful gun safety measure to survive - especially something as major as an assault weapons ban.