We all know that Colorado has been drinking the anti-gun Kool-Aid for a while now, and this year, they took things a step further with their ban on commonly owned semi-automatic rifles and standard capacity magazines.
The surprising part about it was how long it took them to get it. Democratic Gov. Jared Polis wouldn’t sign an outright ban, but he saw no issue with regulations that amount to mostly the same thing.
Now, residents in the state are going to be faced with even greater burdens, and it might end up screwing over a lot of us who don’t live there.
How? I’m glad you asked (even if you didn’t).
“Throughout the country, progressive politicians like Governor Polis are doing everything they can to limit lawful citizens’ access to their constitutional rights,” John Commerford, NRA-ILA Executive Director, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The Polis permission slip is not about safety; it’s about punishing law-abiding citizens with a lengthy and arduous training program chock full of anti-gun propaganda. While citizens who want to follow the law must jump through bureaucratic hoops to exercise their rights, criminals will continue to ignore these laws and wreak havoc on Colorado communities.”
Some pro-Second Amendment advocates suspect this legislation could be copied by other states if litigation on outright bans of modern semi-automatic firearms were invalidated on Second Amendment grounds by the Supreme Court.
“I suspect much like post-Bruen where all the states said, OK, we have to give carry permits to everyone, fine, we will, but here’s a list of places you can’t carry, which is everywhere, I suspect you’ll see all the blue states implement this kind of stuff where they’re gonna say you need a permit to purchase and some kind of training,” Second Amendment Foundation Executive Director Adam Kraut told the DCNF. “I suspect that’ll be their fallback position.”
I think Commerford is absolutely correct. If the Supreme Court were to strike down blanket bans on so-called assault weapons, anti-gun states will start looking at various ways to regulate them that boil down to making it as difficult as possible to buy or own one, just as they did with Bruen and concealed carry.
Colorado’s new regulation doesn’t ban these firearms, which means it wouldn’t get tossed out if assault weapon bans are overturned by the Court. The only way that happens is if the Supreme Court were to issue something that is far broader in scope than what we normally see from them. They’d have to strike down regulations on such weapons in a far more general way, and I don’t think that’s likely to happen.
As a result, many states will look to Colorado’s measure as a blueprint of what they might be able to get away with.
For some, this would still be an improvement, but it’s not what our Founding Fathers wanted when they ratified the Second Amendment. We have a duty to expect better from our government, regardless of which level of government we’re talking about. What Colorado passed isn’t acceptable simply because it’s a little less bad than some other restrictions. That’s not how our rights work.
But be prepared for what may come.
Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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