Boulder City Council gives assault-weapons ban initial OK after marathon hearing

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Source: Boulder Daily Camera

The Boulder City Council on Thursday night unanimously passed on first reading an ordinance that bans the sale and possession of certain firearms defined as assault weapons.

The council adjourned following a more than five-hour-long meeting where nearly 150 people spoke for and against the proposed ordinance, which would also prohibit high-capacity magazines and bump stocks, a device that allows a semi-automatic weapon to be fired more like a fully automatic rifle.

Council members will deliberate the measure at a future meeting and possibly pass it twice more before it becomes an enshrined Boulder ordinance.

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Councilwoman Jill Adler Grano proposed, and received support for, consideration of a ban and called it a "no-brainer" — a sentiment that she stuck with on Thursday night just ahead of the vote.



Read more: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_31785817/100-plus-speak-boulder-city-council-considers-ban

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Jill Grano is badass!

[appal_jack]

1. Enjoy the legal bills, Boulder.

Localities infringing on enumerated rights of the US Constitution is rarely a good idea.

Before everyone jumps down my throat about "BUT the Second Amendment does NOT protect those Eeeevul ASSault Weaponz!!1!1!," if that was indeed the case, then the power to regulate them lies in the states rather than cities, as the Tenth Amendment of the US Constitution outlines:

Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

-app

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2. Is this Nevada or Colorado? It's amazing that even at the link the state is not mentioned.

[kag]

3. Colorado

sorry.