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Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: Ulmus on March 08, 2013, 07:33:21 PM
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I heard the Senate was going to vote today on the anti-gun bills and couldn't find an update.
Anyone know the status?
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From all I've read the vote is now scheduled for Monday. I have been in the past, and will be in the future, wrong.
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MB posted in his blog the "Colorado is lost" so I assume the vote went against Colorado citizens, the Constitution and 2nd Amendment.
Richard
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unless Hickenlooper has an accident.......http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_22746922/colorado-gun-bills-limits-ammunition-magazines-be-debated?source=most_viewed
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Looks like the fat lady is warming up.
http://www.gazette.com/articles/five-152023-state-gun.html (http://www.gazette.com/articles/five-152023-state-gun.html)
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so much for Coutesy, Honour & Respect eh? All taken as signs of weakness by liberals.
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Bic,
What other signs have we showed them?
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http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/08/outdoor-channel-will-not-film-shows-in-colorado-if-gun-bills-pass/
Outdoor Channel will not film shows in Colorado if gun bills pass
While Colorado state senators argue their way through a marathon debate over a slate of gun-control bills, another company has vowed not to do business in Colorado if the legislation passes.
A producer for the Outdoor Channel, a California company that produces television shows about guns and hunting in Colorado, emailed Republican Sen. Steve King on Tuesday warning him that not only will he film the shows in a more gun-friendly state, but also that he would warn hunters to stay away.
“The message we will take to our viewers and listeners is that these proposed laws are so dangerous to hunters and any other person, be she a fisherman or a skier who brings a handgun into the state for self-defense, that we cannot recommend hunting, fishing or visiting Colorado,” wrote executive producer Michael Bane. “We reach millions of people, and, quite frankly, we have a credibility that Colorado government officials can no longer match.”
Outdoor Channel’s most popular show is “Gun Stories,” hosted by “Criminal Minds” actor Joe Mantegna. Although Bane said the network is “relatively small potatoes” by TV standards — he estimated it would contribute just under $1 million to the Colorado economy in 2013 — he says his industry connections have already cost Colorado plenty.
He cited a “major network producer” who, after having lunch with Bane, chose to set a reality TV show in Arizona rather than Colorado because of the pending legislation.
“That lunch cost Colorado over a million in economic impact,” Bane wrote.
He also warned of dire impacts to Colorado’s hunting industry if the bills should pass, noting that next month he will attend a meeting of outdoor and hunting programing producers in Texas.
“The Number One agenda item will be Colorado,” he wrote. “Already, hunting organizations and statewide hunting clubs around the country are pulling out of Colorado, and we expect this trend to accelerate rapidly.”
Bane was preaching to the choir, as King is one of the most vocal opponents of Democrats’ gun control bills. By midday Friday the Senate had given the OK to just one of seven bills expected to be heard, a bill that would prevent ownership of firearms by people who have committed domestic violence.
It’s far from the most controversial to be heard. Still to be debated are bills that would impose liability for damage caused by assault-style weapons on owners, sellers and manufacturers; a bill that would ban high capacity magazines; and a bill requiring universal background checks, among others.
Bane’s email didn’t specify whether Outdoor Channel would leave the state if some but not all of the bills pass and which, if any, are less palatable than others.
Other companies have made similar threats to leave the state, most notably Magpul Industries, which manufactures the sort of high capacity magazines that one of the bills would make illegal.
Lawmakers are prepared to continue the debate well into the evening and perhaps into Saturday.
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That's okay. Colorado can make up for the lost revenue with "pot tourism." I'm sure that crowd will contribute hundreds of dollars to the state coffers. ::)
If I were ten years younger I would definitely be moving out of state. As it is I guess I'll have to stay and fight.
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That's okay. Colorado can make up for the lost revenue with "pot tourism." I'm sure that crowd will contribute hundreds of dollars to the state coffers. ::)
If I were ten years younger I would definitely be moving out of state. As it is I guess I'll have to stay and fight.
I doubt it.
There never seems to be any shortage any where else.
Why drive 1500 miles for what is readily available to any High School student in your town ?
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/09/heres-what-happened-with-colorados-gun-bills-last-night-including-the-shotgun-ban/
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Looks like a couple of the bills were killed and the rest have advanced in the process.
I'd like to have seen them all killed off, but will take those that were rather than have not accepted their deaths unless all of them were killed at once.
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Of the 2 that were killed , the liability for manufacturers one was flat out illegal under federal law.
The SCOTUS shot that down when they heard Giuliani's case a decade ago.
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Bic,
What other signs have we showed them?
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I'm not sure that I understand the question Jrlobo, I was referring to MB's blog where he always asked Coloradans to contact their representatives using those 'qualities'.
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Thanks for the update. I wish the news were better. :(
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I recall seeing this in another thread but here it is on local (Colorado) news.
http://www.krextv.com/news/around-the-region/TV-Host-Speaks-Out-Against-Colorados-Gun-Proposals-196652091.html (http://www.krextv.com/news/around-the-region/TV-Host-Speaks-Out-Against-Colorados-Gun-Proposals-196652091.html)
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That guy looks like a creepy psycho!! ;)
MB, think of northern AZ as a destination to move to.
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I recall seeing this in another thread but here it is on local (Colorado) news.
http://www.krextv.com/news/around-the-region/TV-Host-Speaks-Out-Against-Colorados-Gun-Proposals-196652091.html (http://www.krextv.com/news/around-the-region/TV-Host-Speaks-Out-Against-Colorados-Gun-Proposals-196652091.html)
ROFL ;D
It's on page 1 of THIS thread .
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ROFL ;D
It's on page 1 of THIS thread .
I thought it looked familiar. :-[
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Always good to cross check with a 2nd source.
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I live in Colorado, is pretty much up to the governor now. I've called and emailed. The dems are hell bent on ramming this crap through. On a brighter note there is a ballot measure being induced to repeale the mag ban if it is singed into law. We're gonna fight these bills with everything we have.
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Praying for you guys.
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I just saw that Hickenlooper signed the bill regarding transfers.
http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=GovHickenlooper%2FCBONLayout&cid=1251640588557&pagename=CBONWrapper
And he doesn't think this will hurt his re-election?!?!?!
This is a dark day for CO. I feel for you guys trapped behind enemy lines.
Been trying to find the actual bill so that I can see how it's written. Either my google fu is really weak today, or they don't want us to see it.
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Uhm, that looks like the wrong bill.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2012A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/BDFA5CF2D035E1C1872579810082A6C0/$FILE/1268_01.pdf (http://www.leg.state.co.us/CLICS/CLICS2012A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/BDFA5CF2D035E1C1872579810082A6C0/$FILE/1268_01.pdf)
Rumor is that it will be next week sometime when he signs all of these common sense regulations that will prevent the mass murder of our citizens, cure cancer, and prevent gingivitis.
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Bic,
My question was a bit sarcastic in that we have been polite, etc. and that is all we have been. So where has it gotten us? When is the time we begin hitting them between the eyes with 2x4's? Not literally, of course, but legally and economically.