(The Center Square) – Boulder County commissioners unanimously adopted five new gun control ordinances on Tuesday.
The new ordinances range from increasing the age limit to purchase a firearm, to extending the waiting period after purchase, and outlawing assault weapons and “large capacity” magazines.
Each ordinance went into effect immediately after passage.
“These ordinances are for all of us who have been hurt by gun violence, either directly or indirectly, and provide examples of what other communities and our State can do to address gun violence in this country,” said Marta Loachamin, who chairs the Boulder County Board of Commissioners.
Ordinance 2022-02 increases the age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21 years old. Violating the ordinance carries a misdemeanor penalty, a $1,000 fine, and up to a year in jail, according to its text.
Commissioners also voted to extend the waiting period between the purchase and issuance of a firearm up to 10 days. This ordinance also requires licensed firearm dealers to receive approval from the Colorado Bureau of Investigations before approving the transfer or sale.
The board also passed ordinances that restrict the ability of residents to carry firearms in “sensitive” public places, regulate unserialized firearms, and prohibit the sale of assault weapons and “large capacity” magazines, which are defined as carrying 15 rounds of ammunition or more.
“These ordinances are common sense gun violence laws designed to help keep people safe,” Commissioner Matt Jones said. “With each mass shooting or tragic gun death we read or hear about, we feel more motivated than ever to take action in the absence of federal or state protections. As we work to legislate for change, we remember those who lost their lives in our own community at the King Soopers in Boulder, and those more recently and further afield in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York.”
The ordinances come as the National Foundation for Gun Rights (NFGR) is suing Gov. Jared Polis in federal court to overturn the state’s ban on high-capacity magazines.
NFGR previously sued the town of Superior to stop the enforcement of its new restrictions on the sale of assault weapons. A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order against the ordinance on July 26, Colorado Public Radio reported.
“The early wins in Superior are a telltale sign of what is to come not only in Colorado but around the entire country,” Taylor Rhodes, executive director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, an affiliate of NFGR, said about the ruling.
Recent occasions when Boulder County addressed gun control:
– ‘Assault weapon’ defined by liberal Boulder, CO – June 1922
– Boulder passes its own gun laws again; here’s whats in them – June 1922
– Boulder City Council Passes Resolution For More Of What Failed Them – April 2021
Only to be overturned by the SCOTUS.
IF it ever makes it to the court that is.
We’ll see lots more of these duplicated futile laws if Democrats win in the midterms. They just ignore SC decisions knowing that challenges to any new laws they create will take years to wind through the system.
Boulder just changes the wording and passes the same useless laws over and over to answer the idiotic cry of ‘DO SOMETHING’! They can then point to it and say they did something and the leftist mob thinks they actually did.
AND that’s the kicker.. WHAT Is the point in the Scotus making a ruling, if the dems JUST IGNORE IT.
Normally I’d be outraged, but since this is Boulder, CO, home of many of the crazies who a) like to ski, or b) couldn’t afford to go to school in Berkeley, maybe this is a good idea. Just as long as the more rational counties realize how dumb this action is….
Pity we can’t see that city turned into rubble, by its own ‘dantes peak!”
Do you see that John ‘Fredo’ Cornyn, R-Tx. The Democrats and Colorado are destroying our country and Fredo Cornyn is helping the Democrats.
The nationwide obsession over gun control laws just proves that you really can’t fix stupid.
And how frustrating for those of us with intellect.
The private ownership of firearms has the anti gun freaks seething with anger, the SATAN WORSHIPPING DEMONCRATS want the people disarmed by the end of this year, why so that they can start the purging of those that have guns so they can make things easier for the coming invasion by china. Those in office are all having organisms over the idea of getting rid of the very thing that has kept the people safe from rampant tyranny, well this admin is as tyrannical as we have ever seen and they are hot to kill the whole of the BILL OF RIGHTS, as well asthe whole of the CONSTITUTION they hate every bit of the protections we have, that is why they are going at it so hard right now. If those in office want to take our rights then they better give up the guns they have as well.
First, none of these infringing laws make anyone safer. Infringing on the Constitutional rights of millions, if not billions of lawful gun owners because of the actions of a few mentally unbalanced people is pure insanity. Do these people have cognizant issues? Do they actually not understand the meaning of infringement, especially when used in a sentence as in “…SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED”? The states do not have the right to overthrow the Constitution.
ITS MORE that they just DON’T care!