Major Victory For Colorado Gun Magazine Limit Law (And Common Sense)

[Robb]

9NEWS' Brandon Rittiman reports on a late-developing story, clarifying the enforcement of Colorado's new gun magazine limit law–and as we've been predicting for months, formalizing the general terms of the Attorney General's technical guidance memo. Still apparently subject to some journalist confusion, this is a major victory for proponents of House Bill 13-1224, and means there will be no temporary injunction blocking enforcement:

The agreement, which will be spelled out in a memo from the state Attorney General, will say that magazines do not violate the ban simply because they have removable base plates.

The language of the law states that magazines are illegal if they are "designed to be readily converted to accept" more than 15 rounds of ammunition. Most magazines have removable base plates to allow them to be cleaned and maintained, but extenders can be added to the bottom of many models to increase their capacity.

The two sides agreed on a separate issue over a requirement that owners of "grandfathered" magazines must maintain continuous possession of the magazines in order to keep them legal. The two sides said that simply lending a magazine or handing it over to a gun shop to be maintained, does not violate this portion of the law. In order to break continuous possession, the owner would have to willingly give up ownership of the magazine.

Again, these are the same essential terms that proponents of House Bill 1224 have sought all along, and the original technical guidance issued by Republican Attorney General John Suthers in May represents the limit of enforcement desired by anyone. The wildly speculative interpretations of the new law offered by opponents, who claimed the law would "ban all magazines" among other unintended outcomes, were always specious at best....

Read More:http://coloradopols.com/diary/45491/major-victory-for-gun-magazine-limit-law-and-common-sense

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