Colorado bill restricting sale of certain semiautomatic guns clears first House committee after notable tweaks
I love how CO Democrats are just watching the rise of the Orange Reich, and their solution so far is to ban modern firearms and allow sheriffs to decide that black people can't get an exception to the ban.
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Regulating based on detachable magazine isn't a very good idea.
Keltec is already making a 20 round pistol that doesn't have a detachable magazine and is loaded by clips almost as fast.
The lack of detachable magazine makes it more easily concealable as well because it saves on weight and width.
Feature specific bans do nothing except encourage manufacturers to develop loopholes, and that happens faster than laws go into effect these days.
I do want to give Colorado credit for requiring a background check even on private sales, that's something we've needed to fix federally for a very long time.
My issue with background checks on private sales is that they're unenforceable unless you have a database of every gun and who owns it. I'm not comfortable with Trump having a list of every liberal, POC, and LGBTQ person who has a gun.
Then you're also not comfortable with any other administration having a record of every Nazi with a gun?
Because you can't do one without the other.
The social contract isn't one sided, all of society has to sign it.
If it means Trump and possible future administrations don't have a list of vulnerable people and people most likely to oppose them, then absolutely yes.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
And wasn't that the whole point of the 2nd amendment?
Logic isn't going to work here...
Some people lie about why they have certain beliefs as a reason for a political stance. When those beliefs are shown to be illogical, they pick a new one and keep the political stance
You can poke holes in 100 of their beliefs one after another, the political stance will never change, because they won't say the indefensible belief that really led them to that stance
It doesn't though...
I know it feels useless and tedious writing your representatives about why gun ownership rights are important to you but it is a necessary thing to do. Right now these officials are assuming the people who care about gun ownership rights are already not a reachable voting block. Being vocal about this to anyone you are eligible to vote for can help them remember there are votes to be won with that issue.
Democrats and their instance to attack gun rights are why they almost never hold a complete majority nationally