This AR-15 Certification Ordinance Sure Sounds Like a Test Run for a Gun Registry
Remember when Boulder, Colorado banned the ownership of AR-15 rifles? They also banned high-capacity magazines and bump stocks, giving gun owners with such magazines until July 15, 2018 to either sell them or dispose of them—whatever that means. Most likely, you’ll have to turn them over to the authorities. Now, there is a grandfather clauseallowing residents who already owned AR-15s to keep them as long as they got a certificate by the local sheriff’s office. Well, that date is rapidly approaching. AR-15 owners who fall within this clause have until December 27 to certify their weapons. If owners don’t certify, they won’t be allowed to own their rifles within city limits. So far, only 85 rifles have been certified (via Denver Post):
Boulder police have certified 85 assault weapons to residents with less than a month to go before all such firearms will need to be verified or removed from the city.
A ban on the sale or possession of assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and bump stocks was passed unanimously in May by Boulder city council. Guns already owned by residents were grandfathered in; council gave residents until the end of the year to obtain a certificate.
Certification is not a registry; the department keeps no records or paperwork of any kind. The only information they have is a handwritten count, said Boulder police Sgt. Dave Spraggs. Eighty-seven certificates have been issued to date. Two of those were redundancies, for the same weapon shared between a husband and wife.
This is nonsense. And yes, it may not be a registry, but it sure sounds like a test run. We all know that the anti-gun Left wants to shred the Constitution, ban firearms, and confiscate them by force if necessary. How can one do that efficiently? You need a gun registry, which is why the universal background check push is such a fraud. We have enough laws on the books to protect law-abiding citizenry from criminals and nutcases seeking to commit heinous acts. (Read more from “This AR-15 Certification Ordinance Sure Sounds Like a Test Run for a Gun Registry” HERE)
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