Colorado Repealing Magazine Ban

Adam Scepaniak
by Adam Scepaniak

The Colorado Senate has been busy in a good way for firearm enthusiasts. This Tuesday, April 12th Senate Bill 113 was put to a vote and passed 20-13. What SB 113 will do for Colorado residents is eliminate the 15-Round magazine capacity limit.

Some of you might be familiar with this poorly-crafted law from 2013. It is the exact reason why Magpul took its company’s headquarters to Texas, and Texas was happy to accept them. They didn’t exit their home state without a fight though. In a phenomenal act of defiance they sold limited edition magazine packs to fund efforts to stop the bill. Magpul has since gone on to grow their company and product offerings significantly while Colorado lost a lot of tax money from a firearms industry icon.

Magpul Limited Edition "Free Colorado" Magazines

In order to make SB 113 official law it must now be passed in the Colorado House. Right now it needs to be sent to a committee referral before anything else. At some point in the future it will come to a vote, and residents of the state and all others watching can only hope it passes the House as well.

The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) has already been helping with the push to make this become law. It would be a tremendous victory if the 15-Round magazine capacity limit were to be lifted.

Adam Scepaniak
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  • Stacy Flit Stacy Flit on Apr 21, 2016

    Look at the moronic comments going on about grammar when the subject is our Rights! Ignore your Rights and they will go away, Our governor in Colorado does not belong in Colorado and is not from Colorado. He is from Pennsylvania but he is just like the ones that Californicated us. They move here and then are embarrassed by the western image. Fuck their deck shoes and cotton dockers, just as the gov told the sheriffs "Fuck you". Can't buy ammo, can't buy a weapon privately without background check, the state and fed are limiting target shooting on public land more and more. The Forest Service are dressing like military thugs. One Representative said we do not need firearms because "You have us" she added. Another stated we do not need a magazine limit because pretty soon the magazines we have will be empty! Totally uninformed that mags can be refilled... One rich rancher I researched gets a almost a million a year in subsidies and has sold land to the state but he gets to keep it! Really. He was whining about a possible mandatory pay raise for sheepherders from South America they hire for 3 year contracts 24/7 at about $750 a year. He said it might strain his budget if they have to pay a little over a thousand a year for a single herder to live out in the middle of nowhere tending his 8,000 head of sheep! He also gets a certain amount of big game licenses as long as he allows some public hunting which he runs like a boot camp. The licenses he gets he can charge $10 to $15K each from rich out of state hunters. Deer tags are all drawing only and for a resident elk and deer tag runs about $100.00. I see deer all over the city. Big mule deer bucks in the Walmart parking lot but not in the National Forests. One has to buy a small game license to kill a rattlesnake.
    They do not give a rat's ass for residents, its all about big money with the city and county of Denver dictating everything to the rest of the state.
    I have seen longtime residents evicted out of run-down apartments then the place gets renovated and two weeks later it is all filled up with Mexican nationals. They drive new pick up trucks plus there are taco trucks on every vacant lot vending food when it is near impossible to start any business especially food service with anything under $100k.
    The governor issued executive orders for the latest stifling gun control laws which I do not see how it can be legal for him to do so. The Rule of Law just does not exist anymore, Who are the real terrorists???

  • S. Plankenberg S. Plankenberg on Apr 23, 2016

    Adam - What makes you think this ban is going to be repealed?
    Doesn't Colorado still have a Democrat governor that will veto the boll if it comes to his desk? If so, the ban will remain in place.

    The Colorado senate voting to do so is a far cry from making it happen.

    If I were a Liberal Democrat leading the fight to keep the ban in place, I would do everything I could to delay the repeal effort until there is another multiple-victim shooting, THEN let the repeal come up for a vote in the wake of all the news coverage of the shooting. ( We all know how that will go ) I would do this knowing time and the news media is on my side because there WILL be another shooting, and there will be a lot more people pressuring the pro-gun representatives to let the ban stand.

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