Colorado Democratic lawmakers are pushing a package of gun control laws that would make it more challenging for residents to buy and carry firearms.
The nine bills lawmakers are attempting to pass have gained traction in the state’s Democratic-controlled general assembly while largely avoiding attention, Fox News reported. If approved, the legislation would ban “assault weapons” or semiautomatic rifles such as AR-15s, appoint an 11% tax on ammunition and gun sales, restrict where guns can be carried in public, and make firearm storage in vehicles mandatory.
“Lawmakers are using these outrageous bills as blueprints, changing the state names and implementing them across the country at a state level because they don’t have the votes to do it nationally,” said Ava Flanell, a Colorado Springs firearms instructor.
“Last year, it was Washington where they all
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