62strat said:
Aggie_Boomin 21 said:
62strat said:
BigPete3281 said:
Blue states just can't seem to do anything right.
Except outdoors and weather
Did politics really drive you out of CO? I can't think of one political thing that has affected me in 13 years here.
I also live in a red county.
SB 25-003 (semi-auto restriction and big step toward ban) would have me looking to leave the state if I hadn't bought a house 3 months ago.
I don't know that I can get mad at a law that requires the purchaser of a semi automatic weapon to go through gun safety training/hunter education course.
Doesn't that seem sensible?
Principally no, I don't agree with that at all. I also am doubtful on the efficacy for this. But I don't expect to change minds on those ideas, as I likely have nothing novel to say.
But greater issues with the class (and not just the idea of a class itself) is hunters safety classes often have a multiple month long wait list as it is so that is going to get significantly worse, most of the classes offered are in rural areas, it must be completed every 5 years, will be funded by CPW (that's millions of dollars away from conservation), is 12 hours long, and cost $300 (the poor don't deserve the right to bear arms). While it isn't an outright ban, it feels intentional to me that there is such limited infrastructure surrounding it.
And if you think it stops here you are incredibly naive. Not saying you have to be opposed to this progressing in principle either, but it is only a matter of time. I'll predict in the next decade legislation is in place that effectively does for handguns what this does for rifles and shotguns since the majority of gun violence is committed with handguns anyways.
Even the VERY left Colorado & Denver subreddits are against it.
