Boulder Council: Gun Stores Can’t Issue Certificates To Assault Weapons Owners
BY Herschel Smith
6 years, 6 months ago
Boulder’s two gun stores will not be able to issue certificates to owners of assault weapons that are grandfathered in under the city’s ban on the guns, which took effect last week.
The decision came after a brief discussion among City Council members Tuesday night as they considered tweaks to the ordinance outlawing the sale and possession of assault weapons, bump stocks and high-capacity magazines. Boulder, the council and several city officials are being sued in two separate cases challenging the measure.
Five amendments were proposed. On an 8-1 vote, council passed three: Removing an exemption for 30-round handgun magazines that are legal under Colorado law; allowing competitive shooters to travel through Boulder with assault weapons; and clarifying the language so that any individual not allowed to possess firearms under state and federal law could not receive a certificate of ownership.
Council member Mirabai Nagle was the lone dissenting vote. She opposed banning high-capacity handgun magazines that are legal under state law, grandfathered in via a 2013 measure.
“The gun community is not going to turn in their 30-round magazines,” she said, “so we just turned a bunch more people into criminals.”
She also voiced discomfort with disallowing gun stores from issuing certificates of ownership, which she argued would boost compliance. The rest of the council was swayed by arguments from the city attorney and police chief that background checks at private dealers would not be sufficient.
So here’s the picture. The Form 4473 you signed and the background check you had when you bought the weapon just isn’t good enough. They want another one, or in other words, they don’t just want another background check. They want law enforcement to perform a more comprehensive system of checks that will ensure that you’re on a registry to own your “grandfathered” weapon.
And they say that they don’t really want a gun registry! This whole thing is an exercise in nullification anyway, and the Boulder Council should be thrown out for their violation of Colorado law.
Never register your guns. Never throw away your magazines.
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On June 21, 2018 at 7:59 am, SGT.BAG said:
When the government makes you a criminal, make sure you become the best one you can possibly be.
On June 21, 2018 at 8:18 am, Fred said:
The use of the word Certificate is new (to me). It had caught my eye. I thought; Certificate? Nobody needs a Gun Certificate. What is a Certificate?
Well, it’s just a change in language to mean YOU are registered as having guns. Same thing, different word.
If an 85 IQ mastermind of the hood knows not to fill out a gun request form then… Don’t let your natural good nature and upright character do you in. Nobody in guv or other leftists cares.
On June 21, 2018 at 2:13 pm, Gryphon said:
Certificate of Ownership” means he State OWNS your Gun and ALLOWS You to keep it (for now). This is similar (I have read) to the the Form 4473 “Transfer” form, which indcates you have ‘received posession’ of the Firearm, NOT that you Own it. That may be an Obscure Point, but Don’t Think for a Minute that those ‘background checks’ and ‘transfer forms’ do not constitute a REGISTRY (at least Partially) of Gun Owners.
The bolsheviks should not be able to Claim that they Don’t Understand the meaning of the Second Amendment …”Shall Not be Infringed”, they Hate It and want to Destroy it.