Posted on 04/19/2013 7:59:11 AM PDT by beaversmom
COLORADO SPRINGS - A majority of Colorado Sheriffs have joined together in a lawsuit to try and block two of the state's new gun laws from taking effect. In all, 37 of the 64 county sheriffs in the state, including El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa, are filing the civil right's suit claiming the language of House Bill 1224 and House Bill 1229 is unconstitutional.
"When a legislature enacts an unconstitutional law it puts the sheriffs in a dilemma," explained attorney Dave Kopel of the conservative think tank the Independence Institute which is representing the sheriffs in the case.
HB 1224 bans ammunition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds. When it was passed last month, supporters said the law would save lives by forcing gunmen in mass shootings like the Aurora Theater and Sandy Hook Elementary massacres to reload more frequently.
However, the law also allows gun owners to keep high-capacity magazine that were purchased before the law takes effect. Sheriff Maketa says it's virtually impossible to tell whether a magazine was purchased before the ban or after.
"We're expected to enforce a law that there is no identifiable difference between one manufactured before July 1st of this year and one manufactured after," Maketa said.
House Bill 1229 expands the existing universal background check requirements to include any transfer of a firearm. The law's backers want to make it harder for guns to fall into the hands of criminals.
The sheriffs believe the opposite is true.
"These bills (take) aim directly at law abiding citizens in suppressing their lawful ownership and use, especially defensive use, of firearms," said Kopel, who is also an adjunct professor of law at the University of Denver.
The Independence Institute is taking the case to court pro-bono. If they should win, Kopel said they will ask for that the state to cover the legal fees. If they should lose, he said the institute will cover those costs.
The state will be defended by the attorney general.
https://www.facebook.com/maketaforsheriff
Sheriff Terry Maketa 23 hours ago via mobile Very proud to announce that 5 more Colorado Sheriffs have joined the pending law suit over these unenforceable, ineffective gown control bills. This now brings the total to 42 of Colorado's 62 elected Sheriffs. We expect even more to join in the next couple weeks
Sheriff Terry Maketa As you might have noticed I had an auto correct fail when I posted this. "Gown" should be "gun" in this status update. Thank you for your understanding and continued support.
Interesting that its the Sheriffs doing this, as Obama has no problem rounding up showcase police to present on TV to ban guns from us not them.
It was one of the sheriffs who said at a press conference a week or two ago that the Denver police were coerced...See video here:
You guys probably already know this, but just in case + update from Maketa.
Card-carrying Obamanation Journalists have used every excuse that they can spin to enable Tyrant B. Hussein Obama to continue to bypass Congress and destroy the US Constitution.
Our sorry Liberal Agenda Media, has proven to be a willing ally to Commie Obama by publishing gun ownership information in their sorry news outlets.
“Confidential” Gun Show background checklists are as confidential as the weakest link in the confidentiality chain, be it the sorry ‘Freedom of Information Act,’ or a sorry Media outlet Editor.
The purpose of a confidentially armed America Citizenry is THE BEST DETERRENT to power grabs by Tyrants such as the current wannabe Tyrant B. Hussein Obama.
Thus, Government knowledge of private gun ownership is ILLEGAL because it is an infringement upon the 2nd Amendment.
Gun background checklists collected will be used to confiscate our anti-Tyrant guns whenever the present or future Tyrant chooses. Of course, that would happen ONLY when it is in “the National Interest.”
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We need to stay focused!
DO NOT GET DISTRACTED!
Commie Obama has just begun to fight us!
With Communist-Style Communal Obama’care,’ B. Hussein already has one-sixth of the US Economy under his Communist heel.
Control of the US House in the 2014 National Election will clear the way for Commie Obama to take over the other five-sixth of the US Economy.
Most of the news from the Obamanation Administration centers around topics that are designed to be just another Obamanation Smokescreen to divert the attention away from Obama managing each new Constitutional Crisis into a Regulation that violates the Constitution.
“Never let a Crisis go to waste,” is the rule that guides Commie Obama.
Examples of these Obamanation distractions are most of the social issues that get attention by the Liberal Agenda Media.
Our sorry Congressional RINOs have been to stupid to learn this smoke and mirrors distraction game, and run from bargain to bargain or deal to deal, with nary a thought to use REGULAR ORDER, as designed by our Founding Fathers to protect us from Tyrants such as B. Hussein Obama.
If “bargains” and “deals” do not work then Arrogant, Incompetent, Communist Tyrant B. Hussein Obama will try to bypass the REGULAR ORDER of Congress by using Executive Orders, selective enforcement of REGULATIONS, and other Jack-Booted actions and verbal dictates that are consistent with the Communist Cell training that B. Hussein received in his quest to “FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.”
As any card-carrying Obamanation Journalist will tell you:
” - - - We must support Obama “ - - - TO FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - - - ” into a totally Regulated Communist Obamanation of Debt and Doom.
After all, how else can “- - - everyone get a fair shot?” - - - “
BTW, RECEIVING a “fair shot” would have been a lot easier if Commie Obama had succeeded in his personal recent attempted “bipartisan” destruction of the 2nd Amendment to disarm us - - - - .
For those interested:
Military Service Members Against Gun Control
https://www.facebook.com/MilitaryServiceMembersAgainstGunControl
Are they going after prom queens now?
You can have it when you pry my cold, dead hands off my gold sequined gown.
“...ineffective gown control bills.”
Are they going after prom queens now?
You can have it when you pry my cold, dead hands off my gold sequined gown.
Oh my goodness that’s funny-
“Freeze! I’ve got a gown”
“Drop your gowns”
Maybe ther constitution read “The right to own gowns shall not be infringed upon’
“Clinging to God Gowns and Relgion”
Goota go, I’m headign to the gown range
So what if two CO residents happen to meet in WY and one sells, trades or gives a firearm to the other?
City police departments are union-controlled and police chiefs are politician lackeys. Sheriffs, on the other hand, are local officials far more in touch with their constituents.
“I’ve got a gown and I know how to use it!”
“Look out she’s got a gown! And it’s gorgeous.”
“Just put the gown down and no one gets hurt.”
CIVIL RIGHTS BEFORE CIVIL SERVANTS
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