This evening on Denver8 public access, I happened to catch the tail end of a City of Denver safety committee meeting, where the agenda was to discuss a "technical cleanup" of Denver's firearms ordinances.
Anyone have the links to the previous discussions or the (12/19/06) memorandum that was mentioned? The gist was the open-carry ban in Denver will continue to be strictly enforced, the state law allowing concealed carry in a car for self-protection cannot be thwarted, but that the recent litigation will allow Denver to continue their own anti-EBR ordinances (enacted in '89).
It sounded like Denver plans to delete specific model names from their anti-EBR ordinance, but will continue to ban all semi-automatic weapons with a magazine capacity greater than 20. I'm wondering if that will actually prohibit the possession of even more rifles (like Mini-14s) that previously weren't banned, or if Denver-ites will now be allowed to possess AR-15s and AK-47s with 20 round magazines...
Here's Denver's existing blurb on Sec. 38-130, Assault Weapons
Here (if it works) is the video link from today's (03Jan07) safety committee meeting.
Anyone have the links to the previous discussions or the (12/19/06) memorandum that was mentioned? The gist was the open-carry ban in Denver will continue to be strictly enforced, the state law allowing concealed carry in a car for self-protection cannot be thwarted, but that the recent litigation will allow Denver to continue their own anti-EBR ordinances (enacted in '89).
It sounded like Denver plans to delete specific model names from their anti-EBR ordinance, but will continue to ban all semi-automatic weapons with a magazine capacity greater than 20. I'm wondering if that will actually prohibit the possession of even more rifles (like Mini-14s) that previously weren't banned, or if Denver-ites will now be allowed to possess AR-15s and AK-47s with 20 round magazines...
Here's Denver's existing blurb on Sec. 38-130, Assault Weapons
Prohibits the ownership, carrying, storage, display, sale of certain specified assualt weapons http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wbardwel/public/nfalist/denver_ordinance.txt [link] (scroll to (h) for the list) and their "knock-offs" except a very short-list of persons who grandfathered their guns in before the ordinance took effect.
Prohibits the possession of a magazine which holds 21 or more rounds
Assistant City Attorney David Broadwell did a passable job of differentiating semi-automatic from full-auto for the councilmembers -- none of whom seemed the least familiar with firearms. He got a bit hazier trying to explain the logic behind the ban on handgun "clips" (sic) holding more than 20 rounds....and started to rattle on about uzis, "larger firepower", and "more deadly weapons".Prohibits the possession of a magazine which holds 21 or more rounds
Here (if it works) is the video link from today's (03Jan07) safety committee meeting.
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