Vast Majority of Colorado Sheriffs Will Blatantly Refuse to Enforce New State Gun Law
Vast Majority of Colorado Sheriffs Will Blatantly Refuse to Enforce New State Gun Laws. As Biden Would Say… This is a BFD!
Ari Thompson
on 16 December, 2013 at 19:04
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The state of Colorado recently passed a slew of gun laws aimed at violating the 2nd Amendment and stripping citizens of their rights to keep and bear arms. As a result, two lawmakers were recalled and a third resigned, knowing full well a recall was coming.
Turns out a vast majority of Colorado Sheriffs have no intention of enforcing the new laws. Via NYT.
When Sheriff John Cooke of Weld County explains in speeches why he is not enforcing the state’s new gun laws, he holds up two 30-round magazines.
One, he says, he had before July 1, when the law banning the possession, sale or transfer of the large-capacity magazines went into effect. The other, he “maybe” obtained afterward.
He shuffles the magazines, which look identical, and then challenges the audience to tell the difference.
“How is a deputy or an officer supposed to know which is which?” he asks.
Colorado’s package of gun laws, enacted this year after mass shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., has been hailed as a victory by advocates of gun control. But if Sheriff Cooke and a majority of the other county sheriffs in Colorado offer any indication, the new laws — which mandate background checks for private gun transfers and outlaw magazines over 15 rounds — may prove nearly irrelevant across much of the state’s rural regions.
Some sheriffs, like Sheriff Cooke, are refusing to enforce the laws, saying that they are too vague and violate Second Amendment rights. Many more say that enforcement will be “a very low priority,” as several sheriffs put it. All but seven of the 62 elected sheriffs in Colorado signed on in May to a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the statutes.
BFD indeed.
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