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Pro-gun Colorado Senator Greg Brophy discusses the gun bills currently under consideration in the Colorado Legislature: Senator Brophy
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Senate Bill 08-048: Prohibit Automated Political Phone Calling (BAD)
by Senator Keller (D-20) and Representative Buescher (D-55).
Prohibits political
telephone solicitations made by automatic dialing machines or by paid
political solicitors to anyone in Colorado or registered to vote in Colorado.
PPFC comment: No one likes telephone solicitation calls, but this bill
would further erode our political free speech.
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Senate Bill 08-049: Safe Storage of Firearms (BAD)
by Senator Windels (D-19). Under Senate Bill 49,
adults would be forced to put their firearms under lock and key or face an
undetermined misdemeanor if a firearm was used in a suicide or crime.
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Senate Bill 08-115: Concern a Civil Action for Damages Suffered
in a Gun-Free Zone (GOOD)
by Senator Brophy (R-01) and Representative Stephens (R-20).
Creates a civil
action to enable a person who is injured in a gun-free zone to recover damages
as a result of criminal conduct in the zone if a reasonable person would
believe the possession of a firearm in the zone could have helped the person
defend himself or herself. Waives sovereign immunity for a claim based on
criminal conduct in a gun-free zone.
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House Bill 08-1066: Deadly Force Against an Intruder (GOOD)
by Representative C. Gardner (R-63) and Senator Harvey (R-30).
Creates a presumption that an occupant who uses deadly physical force against
an intruder has a reasonable fear of imminent death or serious bodily injury
to himself or herself or another person. Sets forth conditions under which the
presumption does not apply. Adds places of business to the locations in
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House Bill 08-1069: Prohibits operation of a motor vehicle on public
land (BAD)
by Representative Curry (D-61) and Senator Tochtrop (D-24). Prohibits
a person from operating a motor vehicle on public lands, trails, or roads
unless the land is signed or otherwise authorized for such use by the
controlling land management agency.
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House Bill 08-1096:
Prohibition on on the Intentional Confinement of Animals for the Purpose of
Hunting (BAD)
by Representative Stafford (D-40). Prohibits a person from
offering another person the opportunity to hunt, wound, or take any mammal
that is intentionally confined, tied, staked, caged, or otherwise restrained
from engaging in normal movement. Allows exceptions for slaughtering a mammal
for purposes of meat, leather, or fur production or humanely euthanizing a
mammal for health, safety, or scientific purposes. Establishes penalties.
(Note:
Under HB1096, every piece of fenced property
would be off-limits to hunting no matter how large the enclosure.)
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House Bill 08-1137:
Wildlife Commission Acquisition of Property (UNDER REVIEW)
by Representative Sonnenberg (R-65) and Senator Brophy R-01). Requires the wildlife
commission to sell land or water, or an interest in land or water, of equal
or greater value when the commission acquires land or water, or an interest
in land or water, by gift, transfer, devise, or purchase so that the
division's total property assets do not grow above the division's total
property assets as of a specified date. Requires the commission to annually
pay to any local government or public body corporate that is authorized to
levy taxes upon land or water, or an interest in land or water, purchased by
the commission a payment in lieu of taxes equal to the amount of tax the
taxing entity would annually receive if the land or water, or interest in
land or water, were owned by any private person or corporation. Requires
the commission to seek approval by the general assembly, acting by bill, of
every purchase of any fee title interest in real property or any interest in
water.
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House Bill 08-1190:
Eliminates requirement for CBI to be open for 12 hours on Sundays to process
instant background checks (UNDER REVIEW)
by Representative J. Kerr (R-28) and Senator Taylor (R-8). Currently, CBI
is required to be "open for business" (run background checks) for a minimum
of 12 hours per day except for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The NICS "manual"
requires state points of contact (CBI for us) to be open from 10:00am to
9:00pm Monday through Saturday and "normal retail business hours" (not
defined) on Sundays. HB08-1190 will modify the CBI required open hours to conform with the NICS requirement. The impact of this change would depend on how "normal retail business hours" are defined for Sunday. I suspect there are very few FFLs that are open on Sundays after 5 or 6 pm. The stated purpose of the bill is to allow CBI to better utilize their personnel to staff up during higher background check times. On the face, this seems reasonable until the government defines "normal business hours" on Sunday to be something like Noon - 4pm. Read Text of Bill (Requires Acrobat Reader) Status:
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The GOOD and BAD ratings are by Bernie Herpin after reading the bills and taking into consideration what others have said.
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