Colorado’s Democratic-controlled House on Sunday passed a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms, a major step for the legislation after roughly the same bill was swiftly killed by Democrats last year.
The bill, which passed on a 35-27 vote, is now on its way to the Democratic-led state Senate. If it passes there, it could bring Colorado in line with 10 other states — including California, New York and Illinois — that have prohibitions on semiautomatic guns.
But even in a state plagued by some of the nation’s worst mass shootings, such legislation faces headwinds.
Colorado’s political history is purple, shifting blue only recently. The bill’s chances of success in the state Senate are lower than they were in the House, where Democrats have a 46-19 majority and a bigger far-left flank. Gov. Jared Polis, also a Democrat, has indicated his wariness over such a ban.
For anyone more honest, stumbling across this thread:
We do restrict who owns which guns. Some entire classes of firearm are damn near banned.
If that’s fine - then it can be applied to other guns. Like this law.
If that’s not fine - the immediate implication is a free-for-all. Any gun, to anybody, anywhere. Like an Uzi in a gas station vending machine. Whether you want that scenario to be legal should not be a difficult soul-searching question. If you don’t even want to deal with that possibility, in an online discussion, then don’t propose changes that lead to dealing with it in real life.