Colorado legislature seeks to limit sale of semiauto weapons.

KOAA News: Semiautomatic Gun Bill Set for First Committee Vote in the House.

COLORADO — Tuesday, a bill that would limit the sale of semiautomatic guns will have its first committee vote in the House.

If the bill passes out of committee today, it will move to the full chamber. The bill passed the state Senate last month after some heavy amendments.

It passed Committee March 11. 

Legislature Colorado: Committee Actions. 

Refer Senate Bill 25-003, as amended, to the Committee on Finance. The motion passed on a vote of 7-4. (Scroll done above link and click on the "Committees" tab).

If the Bill passes the legislature, no doubt Multi-millionaire CO Gov. Jared Polis will sign it. He loves him his gun bans. 

FWIW: Yes, Polis is , as is his husband Marlon Reis.

EFST.

Obama appointed federal judge rules non-citizen "newcomers" have a right to carry; protected by 2A.

Newsweek: Undocumented Immigrants Have Right to Own Guns, Judge Rules.

A judge this month dropped gun charges against an illegal migrant in Illinois, sparking further debate about the rights associated with the Second Amendment.

U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Coleman of the Northern District of Illinois referenced lower court rulings in dismissing firearm possession charges against Heriberto Carbajal-Flores, who was illegally or unlawfully in the United States when he possessed a handgun in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago on June 1, 2020.

"The Court finds that Carbajal-Flores' criminal record, containing no improper use of a weapon, as well as the non-violent circumstances of his arrest do not support a finding that he poses a risk to public safety such that he cannot be trusted to use a weapon responsibly and should be deprived of his Second Amendment right to bear arms in self-defense," Coleman, who was appointed under President Barack Obama, wrote in her eight-page ruling filed March 8.

Carbajal-Flores was charged under Title 18 of U.S. Criminal Code, which legally disallows undocumented individuals to possess firearms and ammunition "or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce."

Meanwhile, democrats actively seek to pass legislation that prohibits some U.S. Military Veterans from owning guns.

⏬  March 19, 2024 ⏬

NRA-ILA: Anti-gun Democrats Seek to Undermine Law Passed to Protect Veterans’ Rights.

[...] a partisan coalition of anti-gun Congressional Democrats – all but two of whom actually voted for the spending package – is now leaning on the VA to ignore or undermine the rider. In doing so, they are using the usual anti-gun tactics of fearmongering, misinformation, and gaslighting.
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The attempt came in a March 13 letter spearheaded by Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA), chairman of the so-called House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, to the Secretary of the VA, Denis McDonough, and was signed by 138 Democrat members of Congress.
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The claims in the letter, unsurprisingly, do not hold up to scrutiny and in some cases actually lend support to the rider itself.
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It's true that statutory law allows the VA to make a “competency” determination for the process of administering its own system of benefits. But that determination has no legal effect outside of that context. As the VA states on its own website, “The determination that you are unable to manage your VA benefits does not affect your non-VA finances, or your right to vote or contract.” This makes sense, as it is a purely administrative procedure that contains no adversarial process unless the beneficiary decides to challenge the action after the fact.

Even then, these appeals are processed in the first instance by the VA itself. And it makes perfect sense for some beneficiaries to have a fiduciary, while also legally possessing firearms. The insinuation that standards for assigning a fiduciary take into an account a veteran’s propensity for posing a physical danger to self or other is patently false.

⏬ March 4, 2024 ⏬

U.S. Senate Committee on Veteran's Affairs: After Tester Push, Provision to Protect Veterans’ Second Amendment Rights from Federal Overreach is Included in Must-Pass Government Funding Bill.

A critical bipartisan amendment U.S. Senator Jon Tester championed to protect veterans’ access to legal firearms has been included in the government funding legislation, following his call to Senate leadership to include the provision.

“It’s flat wrong that a DC bureaucrat could take away a veteran’s legal right to firearms simply because they need assistance managing their finances,” Tester said. “We need to ensure the government does not infringe on veterans’ Second Amendment rights, and I’m glad we were able to fix this unfair policy in the government funding legislation. This is a win for Second Amendment rights and for veterans who have made it clear that VA’s current practice is pushing some folks away from accessing the mental health care they need out of fear their firearms will be seized.”

Tester's bill passed, yet democrats immediately work at trying to undo it.

⏬ March 13, 2024 ⏬ 

Roll Call: House Democrats urge VA to find gun rider workaround. 

“We are calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs to use their power to bypass this rollback and they must do so before a single life is lost because of this legislation,” Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost of Florida said in a statement. He was one of three Democrats, including Sen. Christopher S. Murphy of Connecticut and House Veterans’ Affairs ranking member Mark Takano of California, to vote against the spending law.

The House members urged the VA to establish processes that would automatically seek a judicial order for veterans deemed mentally incompetent. The department should stretch appropriations from previous years out for as long as possible, which would allow the VA to continue reporting names to the FBI background check system while putting those processes in place, the lawmakers said.
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The department should also make full use of state red flag laws to report concerning behavior from veterans and educate state VA facilities about the tools available to them, the letter said.

Another Cynical, Useless, Gun-Control Push by Democrats.

Townhall: Get Ready for Another Cynical, Useless, Gun-Control Push by Democrats.

All mass shooters obtain guns illegally, or legally before having any criminal record (or because of a mistake by the police, as was the case in Charleston and elsewhere). Most incidents are perpetrated by young men who have exhibited serious antisocial behavior. In many, if not most, cases, the shooter is already on the cops' radar because he has threatened others, as was the case from the Parkland shooter to the Highland Park shooter to the Half Moon Bay shooter and many, many others. In a study of mass shootings from 2008 to 2017, the Secret Service found that "100 percent of perpetrators showed concerning behaviors, and in 77 percent of shootings, at least one person -- most often a peer -- knew about their plan." The best thing we can do is uphold laws that already exist.
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The central problem in this debate is that Democrats believe civilian gun ownership itself is a plague on the nation, so it doesn't really matter to them what gun is being banned or what law is being passed, as long as something is being "done."

 

The Sopranos - Mikey Palmice Gets Whacked:

If you're familiar with the Sopranos plot, Mikey deserved it. It's just a television series.

Trudeau Imposes Handgun Import Ban Without Waiting for Parliamentary Approval.

He doesn't need to wait for Parliament approval. He's Teh King of Canada.

 

Breitbart: Trudeau Imposes Handgun Import Ban Without Waiting for Parliamentary Approval.

A ban on importing handguns to Canada passed by the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau without a parliamentary vote came into effect on Friday as part of a broader crackdown on gun rights.

The Trudeau government announced that imports of handguns to Canada would be halted earlier this month, with Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino stating that the current ban is temporary until a permanent ban can be passed in the Canadian parliament.

On Friday the import ban came into effect, ostensibly to limit the number of handguns coming into Canada, the CBC reports.

The government put less emphasis on the number of shootings where the firearm used was held illegally rather than legally, however.

Raquel Dancho of the Canadian Conservative Party, who serves as public safety critic, stressed that the move to ban the import of legal handguns would go after the general law-abiding public rather than tackle the illegal smuggling of guns.

 

This move shouldn't surprise anyone.

No Joe, a 9mm bullet won't, "blow the lung out of the body."

Breitbart: FACT CHECK: Biden Falsely Claims 9mm Bullet Will Blow ‘Lung Out of the Body’.

CLAIM: On Memorial Day 2022 President Biden claimed a 9mm bullet will “blow the lung out of the body.”

VERDICT: False.

The 9mm round is widely popular for concealed carry because it has effective stopping/penetrating power without significant recoil. The round’s stopping power is also attractive for law enforcement, but that power does not translate into blowing organs out of the body.

Breitbart News spoke to a Navy SEAL (ret.), who is a ballistics expert, and his response to Biden’s statement was, “No way.”

We spoke to a federal agent with 15 years experience in the field, and his response was “bullsh*t.”

We spoke to another individual who has been a federal agent for nearly 20 years and was a local police officer for years before that, and he responded to Biden’s statement by saying, “Not possible.”

Biden also said, "you can't buy a cannon", but you can.

The Bidens scheduled to visit Uvalde on Sunday.

The Guardian (Archived): Too much fear, too much grief’: Biden to visit Uvalde amid scrutiny of police response to shooting.

The US president and first lady, Jill Biden, plan to travel to the small southern Texas city on Sunday.

It's too soon.

When he should've come out of the basement, he didn't. When he should stay in the basement, he doesn't.

Let's hope he doesn't go off-script. Only Joe Biden could bring more anguish to a grieving community. His handlers are forcing this trip.

I hope Texas Governor Greg Abbott doesn't meet or greet the Bidens.

Justin Trudeau’s Assault Weapons Ban Includes Bolt Action Rifles.

Breitbart: Justin Trudeau’s ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban Includes Numerous Bolt Action Rifles.

An close examination of Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s ban of 1,500 “assault weapons” reveals the list of prohibited firearms includes a number of bolt action rifles.

Bolt action rifles have been go-to rifles for the hunters and the sport community for over a century and do not have a self-loading action–a semiautomatic action–but are fed a new round only when the hunter or sportsman manually pulls back a bolt to reload.

The bolt action platform is wildly popular for the large rounds like the .50 caliber, which can used for extreme long range shooting.

Democrats in the U.S. government have unsuccessfully sought bans on .50 caliber rifles in past decades, including them in “assault weapons” ban legislation following high profile, mass public attacks. The problem is .50 calibers rifles are extremely large and bulky, and are not conducive to be being carried into a location for the purpose of an attack, therefore the bans fizzle.

But Trudeau included .50 caliber bolt action rifles in his ban of 1,500 “assault weapons.”
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In addition to banning a number of long range, bolt action rifles, Trudeau’s ban also bans .22 caliber rifles that are built on the AR-15 platform. Two such guns are the Smith & Wesson M&P 15-22 and Mitchell Arms Car 15/22, both banned under Trudeau’s announcement.

On May 6, 2020, the Post reported the gun ban as “incoherent,” noting it bans some guns for having certain characteristics and actions while passing over other guns that have the same characteristics and actions.

Is this a trick Trudeau is playing, trying to lure America's Second Amendment-hating Liberals into moving to Canada? Well-played, Justin.

Advising Pollster to Biden embraces gun control. "It's no longer radical."

Ledger-Enquirer: Biden: Trump ‘fanning the flames of white supremacy’.

...on Wednesday, even red-state Democrat Steve Bullock, the Montana governor, backed gun control measures, insisting in a Washington speech that gun owners are worried about their families' safety just like everyone else. He called for universal background checks, a ban on assault weapons, and so-called "red flag" laws aimed at restricting gun ownership from high-risk individuals.

"I am a hunter and a gun owner," Bullock said. "And let me say as a hunter, no real hunter needs a 30-round clip. No real hunter needs a weapon of war." (The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting, Steve. - DD)
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John Anzalone, a veteran Democratic pollster who is advising Biden, acknowledged the party's sudden willingness to embrace gun control.

"It's no longer radical," he said. "No one's afraid of the NRA anymore."

What was their reason for being afraid of the NRA? That the NRA supports The Second Amendment and promotes legal gun ownership for law-abiding people? That it promotes gun safety and responsibility of gun owners? Yeah, that's scary. Far more scary than addressing the issue of criminals obtaining their guns illegally.

White Supremacy, Racism and The Fear Card are all the DEMS have left. Count on them milking it for the next 14 months.

TF is he aiming at? Rabbits?

I've noticed that recently Joe's opted for teleprompters for the most basic platitudes, words and statements that should be extemporaneous.
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