Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- Colorado’s ill-fated “gun magazine ban”
In 2103, the BHO Administration put pressure on Colorado’s sissified governor and legislature to impose a state-wide ban on the sale of “high-capacity ” (actually “normal-capacity”) pistol and rifle magazines.
Caring much more about political careers than they ever will about citizens they supposedly represent, Democrats caved-into the pressure, as they always do, and the dishonorable Democrat governor signed the law.
He admitted the law was “stupid” a short time later, apparently looking for forgiveness!
Like most poorly-thought-out and sloppily-written, anti-gun legislation, the law was carelessly thrown-together, by people who’ve never even owned a gun. The status of existing magazines is never clearly defined, and since magazines are not serial-numbered, it is mostly impossible to prove when they were manufactured, or sold. This law, as anyone with two brain-cells to rub together could have seen, is unenforceable!
Questions from LEOs with regard to how the law is intended to be enforced were greeted with empty looks from the very politicians who voted for it, but (as is usually the case), never actually read it.
The result has been predictable:
Mandating the size of a sheet metal box is always tough to enforce.
Would be interesting to see the financial affect of enacting said laws – there were companies that promptly left Colorado like Magpul. Just helps make it more of liberal bastion. Who cares when you can make it up with dope.
For some reason I thought it was a ban on reading magazines on guns. See
I always called them clips.
You can “legally” buy a joint but not a 30-round magazine.
The first, attracts more Democratic voters to the state, and the second makes people like me and you, leave the state.
This isn’t about DRUGS and GUNS, at all.
Sell them as “joint dispensers”.
“We need a comprehensive assault magazine ban!” – Typical Marxist Jackass
Mandating the size of a Dem politician’s brain is always tough to enforce.
Refusal to comply is the exercise of freedom.
Can I get a 30 count magazine for my double-barreled shotgun?
They also put a ban on fully-automatic black powder assault gun thingys.
Every now and then, I like to call the Colorado gov’s comment line and mention that I’m going down to New Mexico and am planning on bringing back a few 30 round magazines for my friends.
What happens when LEO stops an illegal alien with a 30 rd mag?
They arrest the magazine and let the illegal go free, with an apology for wasting his time.
I saw MagPul was getting a defense contract
for military magazines. I wonder how much that
was worth and how much the dope smoking legislature
in colorado lost in taxes. Phockem.
As I’ve said before … For not the first time I am ashamed of my state