KDVR) — Boulder passed a slate of new gun restrictions on Tuesday night that ban assault weapons in the city, raise the age to buy guns to 21 and take other measures to help prevent impulsive gun crimes and suicides.
“Gun violence continues to escalate in a maddening trend upward that’s daunting to watch and horrific to experience,” Mayor Pro Tem Rachel Friend said at Tuesday night’s council meeting. “But shrugging or turning away and accepting the worsening status quo is not OK. Implementing common-sense gun laws is the right thing to do.”
Council Member Bob Yates said the ordinances “identify dangerous and unusual weapons, vulnerable potential gun users, and sensitive places where guns, used inappropriately, can do the greatest harm.”
The laws are similar to other gun restrictions passed or advanced Tuesday night in Lafayette, Louisville and Superior.
In the package of ordinances, Boulder City Council points to the deadliest shootings in modern U.S. history and the military-style assault rifles the killers used to commit mass murder. This includes Aurora, where the theater shooter used an assault rifle and a 100-round drum magazine, and Boulder, where the King Soopers shooter used an AR-style pistol said to be designed for short-range combat.
The council wrote that these weapons “are designed for and have repeatedly been used to inflict mass casualties and enable other violent crimes” and found “that they are “ill-suited to and unnecessary for responsible self-defense.”
Boulder City Council already passed an assault weapon ban in 2018, after the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida. It also banned high-capacity magazines and raised the legal age to have guns from 18 to 21. But a court in March 2021 voided it, finding that state law pre-empted the ordinance.
That same month, the King Soopers shooting happened. The legislature then repealed the state’s pre-emption law, allowing local municipalities to enact gun laws tougher than the state’s.
Here is a breakdown of what’s in the bills.
Assault weapon ban
Boulder Ordinance 8494 law bans the sale and possession of assault weapons, large-capacity magazines and rapid-fire trigger activators, like bump stocks. It also raises the age to purchase firearms to 21.
In Boulder, anyone who legally had an assault weapon or large-capacity magazine before July 1 has until Dec. 31 to get a certificate for the weapon from the police department. Those seeking a certificate of ownership will have to get a background check.
Anyone who legally had a rapid-fire trigger activator, like a bump stock, before July 1, has until Aug. 1 to either get it out of Boulder or surrender it to the police department to be destroyed.
Certified assault weapons can’t be bought, sold or transferred in the city. Anyone who receives one, say through inheritance or bequest, must make it inoperable, surrender it for destruction, transfer it to a licensed firearms dealer or permanently remove it from the city.
No assault weapon bought on or after July 1 can be held in the city.
If someone’s certified assault weapon is used in a crime, the owner will be civilly liable unless the weapon was stolen and the theft was reported to police within 48 hours after the discovery was made.
For more on what’s considered an assault weapon, read more here.
Guns prohibited in certain public places
Ordinance 8525 prohibits open or concealed firearms in certain places. This includes city buildings or on city properties. They are also prohibited at any facility licensed to serve alcohol, pursuant to state law.
They are also prohibited in hospitals and healthcare centers, places of worship, stadiums and arenas, courthouses, banks, theaters, daycares and preschools and grocery stores.
Ghost gun ban
Ordinance 8526 deals with “ghost guns,” which are untraceable guns without serial numbers. They are often created by 3-D printers or kits that make them practically impossible to trace.
It will be a civil offense for anyone to have a gun that is not identified by a serial number. It will be a criminal offense to have one or more unserialized guns with an intent to sell or distribute them.
Open carrying prohibited
Ordinance 8527 prohibits the open carrying of firearms in public. It also requires that anyone carrying a gun in public must keep it unloaded and locked in a recognizable gun carrying case.
Warning signs required at gun dealers
Ordinance 8528 requires firearms dealers to display signs that say the following in English and Spanish:
WARNING: Access to a firearm in the home significantly increases the risk of suicide, death during domestic violence disputes, and the unintentional death of children, household members, or others. If you or a loved one is experiencing distress and/or depression, call 1-844-493-8255. Posted pursuant to Section 5-8-40, B.R.C. 1981.
Sign required at Boulder firearm dealer locations
10-day waiting period
Ordinance 8529 requires a waiting period before a person can buy a gun.
Anyone who tries to buy a gun will have to be approved by a background check and will not be able to get the gun until 10 days after the dealer submitted for the background check.
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These dreamers who understand not the impulses that drive the human psyche can pass all the gun laws they want, but without raising their citizens with the moral capacity to follow them,,,by self-god liberals who were denied ever being taught the concepts of God and Conscience, the evil that comes in to fill the void and vacuum created in a Godless society whose minds no longer contain no concept of accountability in this life or the next exists, will just continue to grow the evil, that never existed when America was guided by its Christian life creating founding roots, but grew to intolerable levels when the Psychiatrists became more influential than the Pastors. When they and their same minded secular Supreme Court Jesters drove God out of our schools and Government, and allowed abortion in which killed the concept of sanctity for innocent human life, just what the hell did they expect to be the results. Had they read their bible they would have saved us all the dead bodies, created by self-god walking brain dead, soul-less seculars unable to even control their love guns let alone the real deal. The solution is simple. Go back to the future, sweep out the temples of the human mind and body that now contain the evil to make room for the spirit of the Creator to return, and THE PEOPLE can again be capable of the blessings of freedoms of choice, choosing following the law to choose life over death every time. It won’t cost a government penny to do it.
THIS IS yet another reason for me, to NEVER EVER want to go to anywhere in Coloradiosistan… PERIOD!
We raised our children to love GOD with all there heart taught them the salvation message taught them about morality. Sadly our daughter aged 32 succumbed to Diabetes but 8 hours before her untimely passing she was awake and gragarious a blessing from GOD we talked and reminded her about salvation she rembrred she was saved but that we should not worry as she wasn’t going anywhere 8 hours later the nurse called with the news here heart had stopped and she went home to the Lord. We taught them right from wrong to respect all people and as they where growing up I always talked with both of my kids about life and what was right and wrong in the world caught good interview on Epoch tv with author of The Boy Crisis he has studied these young boys lives to see what is causing the problems like the mass shootings and his findings deserve consideration .
When Cain killed his brother Abel with a rock.
God did not blame the rock; he blamed Able and punished Able, not the rock.
It is not the weapon that is used the problem. It is the no longer respect for life is the problem. i.e. abortion
If Democrats were around then, Democrats would want to ban rocks rather than address the real problems of lack of love or respect for your fellow man. #6 of the 10 Commandments of God – “Thou Shalt Not Kill”
Every last one of these laws is in violation of the Second Amendment. Of course to liberals that doesn’t matter. They regard the US Constitution as nothing more than a piece of worn-out toilet paper so violating it doesn’t concern them in the least.
After all these years of shootings, with all the laws passed to prevent them, why do our lawmaKers push to make more? Have’nt we learned they don’t stop or prevent anything? In fact they may make it worse, by allowing law breakers (laws mean nothing to them) to possess guns and the law abiders not. I know that some people actually believe laws will somehow help, but do our law makers believe it or is all this postering just for political favors? I hope not, if they want to do something that will work, look at what Israel does in their schools. They have for years had a lot of terrorists and experience with dealing with it. Their schools have one entrance, with armed guards stationed there. There are metal and explosive detectors there at the entrance. Kids and anyone else cannot get in without going through the detectors. And backing up just a bit about our lawmakers, just look at their meeting places or the white house, just try to get in with a gun. If they were serious about our schools they would be just like them
BECAUSE like always, liberals WILL NEVER ever learn from anything..
That seems to be the case. My experience with those people is that when I have tried to have a conversation with them to express my concern, which is evidence based, they interrupt and yell louder. It’s not possible for that person’s brain to listen when they are yelling. The Left has lost it’s collective mind and gone off the deep end. Unfortunately they are trying to drag the rest of us along. Should we supply them with more rope?
What is remarkable to me is there is no discussion about untreated mental illness. MSM gives air to statements of family members of the perpetrator like, “he didn’t get the help he needed”. (Encouraging us to throw more money at the broken system) Remember the guy who drove through a Christmas parade? The help is there but people refuse treatment. Lara’s Law was passed at least 5 years ago. It’s too long to cover here. I encourage everyone to look it up. I tried to help someone out with that program which allows for court mandated treatment. He was homeless and difficult to find, met all the criteria. The county behavioral health institution was going to send an outreach to encourage him to engage in treatment a week later. What a joke! This is in CA. Does that explain a lot of the problem here?
Boulder Passes Its Own Gun Laws Again
Boulder will now become less safe place to be, or live.
You can’t be surprised. This is, after all, Boulder CO. It’s one of the most looniest places to live on this earth
Time to have tens of thousands march on Boulder with semi-auto rifles and 30-round mags proudly displayed…
You can bet, if BLM did that, they would be celebrated for it, but if we whites tried, we’d be labeled terrorist..
“No Guns or Weapons!
Please check your fists at the door!”