The ordinance, unanimously passed in April 2018 after its first reading, made illegal the possession, sale, or transfer of semi-automatic, magazine-fed sporting rifles, pistols, and ammunition magazines that can hold more than ten rounds.
Alan Gottlieb of Second Amendment Foundation calls it a great ruling from Judge Andrew Hartman, who was appointed to the bench by former Democratic Governor John Hicklenlooper.
“It was based on the state pre-emption law that cities and towns can’t pass gun-control laws that are stricter than the state or federal government,” Gottlieb explains. “Boulder tried to rely on a previous ruling that supported a gun ban in Denver that subsequently … bit the dust because of two other state Supreme Court rulings in other areas that overturned Denver’s having the authority to get around the state’s pre-emption laws.”
Gottlieb also applauds Hartman’s ruling for citing his organization’s McDonald v. Chicago lawsuit. “That [lawsuit] incorporated the Second Amendment through the Fourteenth Amendment, making it applicable to all states and cities that you have an individual constitutional right to own a firearm,” he tells One News Now.
Colorado Ceasefire expressed its disappointment with the decision involving Boulder.
“Assault weapons have been the source of horrendous tragedies here in Colorado and across the nation,” says Eileen McCarron, president of Colorado Ceasefire Legislative Action. “Clearly, residents of Boulder do not want these weapons of war in their city, [and] this ruling illustrates that the 2003 pre-emption statute is not serving the people of Boulder, nor other communities across the state.”
McCarron adds that cities and counties know best what public safety ordinances are appropriate for their neighborhoods. “Unfortunately, pre-emption limits their abilities to adequately serve their communities,” she adds.
The Boulder case was brought by two residents and the Colorado-based Independence Institute.
A judge appointed by Democratic Governor John Hicklenlooper, ruled in favor of The Second Amendment. I am in shock!
Me too. BUT you can bet the leftists will just appeal it to the 9th circus, and get him overruled.
This Democrat run city of Boulder, Colorado has a sales tax of just short of 15%.
These dang Democrats want all your money and take away all your rights.
This law would have made almost all guns illegal……………
But the Blacks and criminals would still have whatever they wanted. 🙁 🙁 🙁
the anti-gunners always like to throw out catch phrases like assault weapons or weapons of war but when asked the would not be able to cite an example of any country that uses these weapons to arm their military.
AND even when you show them facts, such as 95% OF ALL SHOOTINGS are done with Pistols, 4% with shotguns or bolt action rifles, and only 1% with machineguns etc… THEY IGNORE THEM.
Don’t joke about the word assault the next thing will be outlawed are hands as they can definitely assault a liberal.
If cities and counties know what’s best for the safety of their citizens why is it that the cities with the most restrictive gun laws seem to have a much higher rate of gun violence than those who do not? This question is hardly ever posed and has no satisfactory answer. Could it be the left, liberals and Democrats fear the public so they need to ban guns and put a barrier around the PEOPLES’ Capitol?
That question is OFTEN posed.. BUT the liberals always deflect and blame it on racism, drugs, or “the crooks get their guns from more lenient states then bring them back’. THEY NEVER EVER accept the blame for their OWN fubars.