Colorado gun rights backers have had a good run of late, successfully blocking gun control measures passed by Boulder County communities this spring.
Colorado gun rights backers have had a good run of late, successfully blocking gun control measures
Louisville and Boulder, which also passed gun restrictions in the spring, have been sued by Rocky Mountain Gun Owners as well, though no rulings have come down from the court in those cases.bolstering Second Amendment protections, don’t mean the wholesale deconstruction of decades’ worth of gun control laws is nigh, constitutional scholars say.
“Governments can ban carrying entirely in government buildings. Governments can prohibit all forms of gun misuse, such as shooting a gun in the air inside a city or town,” he said. “More generally, laws to prevent dangerous persons from having guns are more likely to be found consistent with the American legal tradition of gun regulation than are laws that impose prohibitions on peaceable gun owners.
And that’s where Rocky Mountain Gun Owners saw an opportunity, quickly making Colorado ground zero in the fight over how far and wide the protections of the Second Amendment extend. The gun rights groupof the Boulder County ordinances that, in part, ban assault-style weapons, limit magazine capacity and set a minimum age for firearms possession.
“It has proven to us and gun rights activists around the country that the Bruen decision is here to stay and gives us a path to take back the rights that were stolen from us,” Rhodes said in an interview with The Denver Post. “They’ve opened the floodgates for challenges and that can’t be turned off easily. We’re already seeing the tables turn a bit.”
But David Pucino, deputy chief counsel with the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said the assault weapons that Boulder and its neighboring municipalities outlawed three months ago are “especially dangerous.”that left 10 people dead, including a responding police officer.
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