Opinion
Colorado – What You Need To Know: A “license to buy” gun owners card was added through an amendment on Second Reading in the Senate. It implements training requirements and a registry to purchase the guns banned under SB25-003.
It’s going to third and final vote in the State Senate on February 18th. If it passes it will move to the House Chamber.
- Use the buttons found here to contact all Democrat State Senators and Governor Polis and tell them why you do not support this bill!
- We break down the changes here.
The Details: When introduced, Colorado SB25-003 was the most sweeping firearm ban to have ever been considered at the state level, going far beyond a typical “assault weapons” ban by targeting all semi-automatic rifles and shotguns with detachable magazines, along with gas-operated semi-automatic pistols that can accept a detachable magazine. Simply a blanket ban on the sale, transfer, purchase, and manufacture of these weapons.
After a flurry of rushed amendments were added during the 10-hour-long Senate floor debate on Second Reading that went well after midnight, the bill still includes a gun ban, but now has morphed into a monster of a bill with multiple moving parts complete with a new license to buy scheme that includes brand new training requirements and what will undoubtedly be a gun owner registry.
If the new version were to be enacted, it would “allow” people to still purchase the banned guns if they have taken a hunter safety course and a firearm safety course that would be managed by Colorado Department of Parks and Wildlife (CPW), or without the CPW classes, take a yet to be developed 12-hour course over two days, and apply for a gun buyers license complete with fingerprints and a background check that would be overseen by your sheriff and CBI.
All by September 1, 2025. Can you imagine the bottleneck this will create in CPW, CBI, and sheriffs’ offices?
The “license to buy” amendment, was introduced by bill sponsor Democrat Julie Gonzales. It creates a Colorado Firearms Safety Course Eligibility Card that individuals can obtain by jumping through the government’s new hoops, and only then will they be able to purchase the banned guns with renewal required every 5 years. If you’re familiar with the Illinois FOID Card, this is very similar. And that FOID card was just very recently found unconstitutional in federal court.
They are planning to take this mutated bill to a third and final vote of the Senate Tuesday, February 18th! If it passes it will move to the House Chamber.
We need you to take action NOW! Read the article linked above to get up to speed on the changes, then contact all Democrat State Senators and tell them why they should vote NO on this bill! Contact Governor Polis too – we need to fire up their email and phones today and tomorrow!
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Rally for our Rights is a non-partisan gun rights advocacy organization that was founded in early 2018. It has quickly become Colorado’s most active Second Amendment group with a focus on frontline activism and community outreach.
