true enough for Colorado:
1. Of the 64 counties in Colorado, something like 53 of the county Sheriffs announced that they were not going to enforce local registration or the magazine law because they are unenforceable.
2. And they have a point.The laws are so poorly written that merely handing a neighbor one of your firearms is a violation, and because existing magazines were grandfathered, and because magazines have no serial numbers it’s impossible to tell a “grandfathered” magazine from a “non-grandfathered” magazine.
3. To the best of my knowledge, no one in Colorado has ever been prosecuted for violation of either law. Most likely the laws would be struck down as unconstitutionally vague if a test case was every brought.
(The one interesting consequence of these laws is that they inadvertently made gun “buybacks” essentially impossible to conduct legally, something yours truly pointed out chapter and verse in a legal brief i published in a local newspaper comment section the first time a local Sheriff tried to facilitate one of these gun “buybacks”. Sheriff then had to publicly back off a few days later in the same newspaper, and there has never been another attempted gun “buyback” in Colorado since then.)
(The one interesting consequence of these laws is that they inadvertently made gun “buybacks” essentially impossible to conduct legally, something yours truly pointed out chapter and verse in a legal brief i published in a local newspaper comment section the first time a local Sheriff tried to facilitate one of these gun “buybacks”. Sheriff then had to publicly back off a few days later in the same newspaper, and there has never been another attempted gun “buyback” in Colorado since then.)
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Any idea what became of David Kopels lawsuits against these two laws?