Colorado Ban On Standard Capacity Magazines Held Constitutional By Court
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 4 months ago
DENVER — Colorado’s ban on large-capacity gun magazines is constitutional.
The Colorado Supreme Court issued its ruling Monday morning, ending the seven-year challenge by Loveland-based Rocky Mountain Gun Owners.
In 2013, one year after the Aurora Theater Shooting, Colorado’s democratic-controlled legislature passed a number of gun reform bills, including House Bill 13-1224, which banned the sale and transfer of magazines that hold more than 15 rounds of ammunition. Then-Gov. John Hickenlooper signed the bill into law, which took effect July 1, 2013.
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners sued in state court, saying it violated the right to bear arms under Colorado’s Constitution. Because of that, Monday’s ruling is final and cannot be appealed to the United States Supreme Court.
Oral arguments in front of the Colorado Supreme Court took place on Nov. 13.
“We hold that HB 1224 is a reasonable exercise of the police power that has neither the purpose nor effect of nullifying the right to bear arms in self-defense encompassed by article II, section 13 of the Colorado Constitution,” the 7-0 ruling concluded.
7-0, without batting an eyelid, without so much as a dissent. At this point what difference does it really make? We cannot turn to the black robed tyrants to defend God-given rights, as they don’t believe in God.
If any gun owner throws away his standard capacity magazines because of this, he is a fool.
On June 29, 2020 at 10:34 pm, JPK said:
I hope someone with a tool and die shop starts making magazines the courts are taking away. They will have plenty of customers, for sure.
On June 30, 2020 at 7:03 am, Fr. John+ said:
“Disobedience to Tyrants, is obedience to God.” Franklin, foolishly adopted by the least obedient of the Founding Dads, T. Jefferson
On June 30, 2020 at 1:41 pm, Bill Sullivan said:
JPK- 3D printing takes over from here. Go to Twitter, and look up Ivan is Back, or CTRL+PEW That should bring them up.
On June 30, 2020 at 3:02 pm, John said:
Until such time as things can be corrected, Cheyenne is only an hour away from Denver. Also, the law forbids the selling of these magazines. It is silent on the possession of them.
On July 1, 2020 at 7:10 am, Todd said:
“We hold that HB 1224 is a reasonable exercise of the police power that has neither the purpose nor effect of nullifying the right to bear arms in self-defense encompassed by article II, section 13 of the Colorado Constitution,” the 7-0 ruling concluded.
So they can’t appeal the ruling based on the Colorado constitution. This says nothing about The 2A all citizens rights are recognized under, so this is pretty easy to overturn in an honest, moral judicial system. On the face of it, this seems like a very good case for the supremes to hear as this is a state law and ruling in direct violation of the 2A. In a just country, this would be a slam dunk. In clown world, who knows.