{"id":10366,"date":"2025-01-16T11:13:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T18:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=10366"},"modified":"2025-01-16T11:13:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T18:13:52","slug":"wyoming-closely-watching-aggressive-colorado-bill-to-ban-semiautomatic-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/wyoming-closely-watching-aggressive-colorado-bill-to-ban-semiautomatic-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyoming Closely Watching Aggressive Colorado Bill To Ban Semiautomatic Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What’s the play? Are they trolling, gauging public outcry, or seeing if they can actually get it passed? Even California hasn’t passed this, so is mini-California trying to take the lead? Worth pointing out, when I worked for Brinks Armored in the late 90’s we carried S&W .38 revolvers, and with speed loaders you press on that automatically release, I could reload just as quickly as with a magazine. So this is just stupid and about eroding the second amendment to eventually take away all guns. And the elephant in the room, mass shooters don’t follow the law and will get any weapon or magazines they want. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/cowboystatedaily.com\/2025\/01\/14\/wyoming-closely-watching-aggressive-colorado-bill-to-ban-semiautomatic-weapons\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Wyoming gun owners are watching the progress of an aggressive proposed ban on semiautomatic firearms in Colorado. It would ban many guns with detachable magazines, including many modern pistols and even some duck hunters’ shotguns.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

By Mark Heinz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A proposed new bill in Colorado would ban many semiautomatic firearms with detachable magazines. That could include many modern pistols. (Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A proposed sweeping ban on semiautomatic firearms in Colorado is part of a larger trend to that state becoming more urbanized than left-leaning, a Wyoming gun rights advocate said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI hope we and other groups can stop this, but it\u2019s pretty bad,\u201d said Mark Jones of Buffalo, who\u2019s also the national director for Gun Owners of America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Controversial gun control bills are nothing new in Colorado. During its 2024 session, the Colorado Legislature considered a ban on \u201cassault weapons\u201d (semiautomatic rifles with high-capacity ammunition magazines). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The measure failed against heavy pushback, including hundreds of protestors<\/u><\/a> showing up at the Colorado Capitol last March. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest gun control effort, Senate Bill 25-003<\/u><\/a>, goes further, extending the proposed ban to almost all semiautomatic firearms with detachable magazines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That could include not only rifles, but also many modern pistols and even some shotguns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If it passes, the bill would include a grandfather clause allowing Coloradans to keep the semiautomatic firearms they already have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A firearm with a semiautomatic action fires one round for each pull of the trigger. It does so without the shooter having to manually use a reloading mechanism, such a bolt, lever or pump action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Semiautomatics are nothing new. They\u2019ve been popular with sport shooters and hunters since the early 20th<\/sup> century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duck Hunters Love Semiautos<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Colorado\u2019s bill might seem unprecedented to Wyomingites, but attempts to ban various types of semiautomatic weapons have been ongoing for years, Jones said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A measure in Massachusetts went after \u201cgas-operated, semiautomatic shotguns,\u201d Jones said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those included shotguns popular with duck hunters, which are hardly high-capacity weapons, he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal migratory bird hunting regulations have long prohibited waterfowl hunters from having shotguns that could hold more than three shells at a time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duck hunters like semiauto shotguns because they absorb recoil and can hold three shells, rather than the two-shot capacity of double-barreled side-by-side or over-and-under shotguns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reduced recoil can be a big perk in a waterfowl shotgun. Many hunts involve lots of shooting over extended periods, as waves of birds come into decoy spreads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A proposed bill in Colorado would ban many semiautomatic firearms with detachable magazines. That could include many modern pistols. (Mark Heinz, Cowboy State Daily)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Urbanization Drives Gun Control<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Colorado bill\u2019s sponsors include state Sen. Tom Sullivan, D-Arapaho and Douglas counties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s previously pushed for assault weapons bans. His son Alex, 27, was among those killed in a mass shooting at an Aurora movie theater in 2012. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sullivan argues that semiautomatics with detachable magazines allow mass killers to fire rapidly and reload quickly, claiming more victims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jones said such proposed gun control legislation is part of larger trend in Colorado politics as that state\u2019s population becomes more urbanized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cColorado has really gone to the left,\u201d he said. \u201cIt has lost a lot of conservative seats and pro-Second Amendment seats in its legislature. It\u2019s driven by the rapid urbanization of the I-25 corridor.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In light of that, there\u2019s a chance that SB 25-003 could pass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if that happens, he anticipates hard pushback, including from many sheriffs in rural Colorado counties refusing to enforce the bans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSometimes the people push back so hard on these things. They\u2019re not going out tomorrow and round up everybody\u2019s 9 mm handgun,\u201d he said. \u201cI hope that\u2019s what happens in Colorado, that this can be stopped.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s the play? Are they trolling, gauging public outcry, or seeing if they can actually get it passed? Even California hasn’t passed this, so is mini-California trying to take the lead? Worth pointing out, when I worked for Brinks Armored in the late 90’s we carried S&W .38 revolvers, and with speed loaders you press […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-wyoming"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10367,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366\/revisions\/10367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}