Colorado challenges the Second Amendment
District of Columbia v. Heller (2008, majority opinion by Justice Scalia):
"[t]his is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The Second Amendment declares that it shall not be infringed.
NYSRPA v. Bruen (2022, majority opinion by Justice Thomas):
"The Second Amendment guaranteed to ‘all Americans’ the right to bear commonly used arms in public subject to certain reasonable, well-defined restrictions.
For rational Americans, Heller and Bruen make clear that the Second Amendment is a natural, unalienable right that encompasses keeping and bearing—wherever one might be—“commonly used arms” for defense of self and others. How then to explain this from Colorado?
"Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday signed into law one of the most restrictive gun regulations ever adopted in Colorado.
Actually, it’s one of the most restrictive and blatantly unconstitutional laws ever adopted anywhere.
"I really think this will make Colorado safer,” Polis said before signing the bill in his office at the Colorado Capitol.
The law will take effect in August of 2026. It bans the manufacture, sale, and purchase of semiautomatic firearms that can accept detachable magazines. This includes most semiautomatic rifles in common use, like AR-15s, also Glocks and virtually any other semiautomatic handgun in any caliber. Magazine-fed shotguns would likewise be banned.
There is a bizarre exception to the outright ban, which Colorado obviously hopes might allow leftist judges to justify the rest. One can own a banned gun if it has a magazine of no more than 15-round capacity epoxied, welded, or soldered to the gun so it can’t be removed.
Virtually no such guns are made for obvious reasons. Permanently affixing magazines to guns in that fashion would reduce their resale value to zero and greatly limit their utility. It’s highly unlikely, should the law be upheld, that manufacturers would make such weapons for a single state, which is surely what Colorado’s Democrat-dominated legislators are hoping...
Criminals care nothing for the law and won’t so limit themselves...
Colorado’s Democrats surely know this law is a blatant violation of the Second Amendment and will be struck down...