House Minority Leader Mark Waller, R-Colorado Springs, says Friday the gun-magazine limit was the most disappointed he’s been in his time in the legislature.
Democrats in the House preliminarily approved a bill Friday that will make the purchase, transfer or possession of magazines that contain more than 15 bullets a misdemeanor.
The debate on House Bill 224 took up most of the day Friday, and lawmakers had three other gun bills on the agenda for the day when the vote was taken at 3 p.m.
Author of the bill, Rep. Rhonda Fields, R-Aurora, said that historically the common link between mass shootings has been high-capacity magazines. Including the shooting in her district this summer at an Aurora movie theater that killed 12 people and wounded 58.
“They are using high capacity magazines to unload as many bullets as they can to kill as many people as possible,” Fields said. Banning the high-capacity magazines would save lives in these mass shootings.
Almost every Republican in the House spoke against the bill.
The outnumbered GOP members argued the bill would do little to enhance public safety and would only remove the viable self-defense tool from the hands of law abiding citizens.
Others argued that manufacturers in Colorado of high-capacity magazines would move out of the state costing the state jobs and revenue.
“We’re doing it because that’s the way the political whims are blowing,” House Republican Leader Mark Waller, R-Colorado Springs said. “Make no mistake we are not pushing this piece of legislation for any reason to enhance public safety. I have never been more disappointed in my time in the legislature than I am right now because of the approach we are taking with this piece of legislation.”
Lawmakers are now discussing a bill to create universal background checks that would require private gun sales to conduct the checks for felonies an other criminal activities that prohibit a person from purchasing a gun.
Rhonda Fields is not “R-Aurora.” Please correct your error in fact.
Enjoy your time in office. You have now become the target of every person able to think for themselves, who will be working to remove you from your cushy posts in the next election. You have proven yourselves too stupid to continue representing us. Anyone who can come to the logical conclusion that more laws on top of the laws that are already ignored can make a difference needs to be heavily medicated and taken care of in the round room for the rest of their lives.
Just shows that the current crop of Democrats in Colorado care more about the orders from their California and NYC masters with full incremental citizen disarmament plans. than their constituents or local jobs. Everyone who mentioned this before the election was a “racist” or “paranoid”. It’s not paranoia if you’re correct!
These things are just bullet points on Feinban, Schmucker, and Putzmutter’s disarmament plans. They’ll push this, and fight to keep the schizophrenics and psychopaths on the street to cause more terrible events so they can push their next round of plans.
More idiocy from our clueless Colorado legislators. As usual, they’re too mindless and lazy to deal with the real underlying causes of violence, which are violent movies and video games, both of which desensitize people to killing and even glorify it. Gun control will do nothing to stop this problem.
we dont need to hear from LYING NRA member chickenhawks
who rather see hordes of kids dead at Columbine, Sandy hook
What we really don’t need is to hear from brainless Obama sycophants who would prefer that everyone, to include children, will be defenseless when criminals invade their homes to rape and kill them.
Bob glad to see you have no idea of what you’re talking about so you exaggerate your point to being silly
we still have our AR15 and a 14 gauge,
and taurus, we are fine
its the cowardly NRA members who stay home during wear
whle brave vets defend your asses
Wow, what a fine demonstration of bursting out of the seams…..somebody is about two cans short of a six-pack. Get some help, dude. There are tons of psychiatrists in the phone book.
you racists white NRA nuts are the ones who need SHRINKS to tell you a gun doesnt replace your tiny penis
Ooooo. Once again, we have irrefutable proof that the anti-freedom nuts in this country froth at the mouth when patriots tell the truth.
And that fixation on the penis you’ve repeatedly demonstrated…..they have treatments for that personality disorder. The medicos can help you get past that self-hate. Good luck with that.
A liberal Democrat here…..and i’m against the recent measures in Colorado. They seem…..well……pointless. A 15 round limit, banned CCP in certain places and universal background checks would have done exactly nothing to prevent Aurora or Newtown. These are feel-good measures that only serve the purpose of doing anything to say something has been done. IMHO, if we want to get serious we need to expand mental health coverage, have easily accessible therapists and give people in the public trust, like school officials, the ability to recommend people for those services. Not only would it help to prevent violent acts, but it would also greatly improve many people’s quality of life. It also means a greater investment of both people and resources than simply placing a ban on certain items, but the return would be worth it. This is an issue in our state and country that has been skirted, overlooked and in many circumstances simply ignored for generations. We should take this opportunity to do something meaningful about it.
So we are to assume that the present & future Democratic Party is going to use Mental Health as the next club to beat over the 2nd Amendment.
Maybe the young kids(girls) that Sen Menendez D-NJ visits (sic) in the Dominican Republic could of used some Mental Health service to protect themselves from the usual Democratic Leaders.
Mike, no, I was actually saying the opposite of that. I fully support the 2nd amendment without limitations. However, we clearly do have a problem with mental health in this country and recent incidents of violence highlights that to me more than it does any need for superficial and ineffective guns control measures.
Unfortunately, our democrat state legislators don’t agree with James…..in fact, they think that women can defend themselves against assaults and rape with merely whistles and designated so-called “safe zones,”…..
“It’s why we have call boxes, it’s why we have safe zones, it’s why we have the whistles. Because you just don’t know who you’re gonna be shooting at. And you don’t know if you feel like you’re gonna be raped, or if you feel like someone’s been following you around or if you feel like you’re in trouble when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun and you pop … pop a round at somebody.” – democrat state rep. Joe Salazar
In Europe, in countries that allow people having guns at home there is no magazine limit, generally. I was thinking about making business in Colorado, however I won’t create jobs in any country or state(that like Russia or North Korea) bans civil rights, for example if I am worker and want to shoot on the shooting range, why somebody my block me? Next step would be taking cars(cars have higher kinetic energy) from people or limiting it up to 5 miles per hour…