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Colorado Sheriff refuses to enforce gun-control bills
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<blockquote data-quote="Samstwitch" data-source="post: 66732" data-attributes="member: 2770"><p>[ATTACH=full]666[/ATTACH]</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/colo-sheriff-refuses-enforce-gun-control-bills-024608155.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 22px">Colorado Sheriff refuses to enforce gun-control bills</span></a></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado sheriff says he won't enforce two aggressive gun-control measures waiting to be signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Weld County Sheriff John Cooke told The Greeley Tribune (<a href="http://bit.ly/141Ee2z" target="_blank">Cooke won’t enforce new state gun laws | GreeleyTribune.com</a> ) that Democratic lawmakers are scrambling after recent mass shootings, and the bills are "feel-good, knee-jerk reactions that are unenforceable."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">One bill expands background checks on firearm purchases, and the other limits ammunition magazines to 15 rounds. The 15-round magazine limit would make Colorado the first state outside the East Coast to ratchet back gun rights after last year's shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Colorado's gun-control debates have been closely watched because of the state's gun-loving frontier heritage and painful history of mass shootings, most recently last summer's movie theater shooting that killed 12.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">The sheriff said he "won't bother enforcing" the laws because it would be impossible for officers to keep track of how the requirements are being met by gun owners — and he and other sheriffs are considering suing the state to block the measures if they are signed into law.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Cooke said the bill passed Friday requiring a $10 background check to legally transfer a gun wouldn't keep firearms out of the hands of those who use them for violence.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">"Criminals are still going to get their guns," he said.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">The sheriff's office did not immediately return calls left by The Associated Press.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">The magazine-limit bill passed earlier in the week will technically ban all magazines because of a provision that outlaws any magazine that can be altered, he said, adding that all magazines can be altered to a higher capacity.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Expanded checks have been a top priority for Hickenlooper, who called for the proposal during his State of the State address in January.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ccffcc">Cooke oversees law enforcement in Colorado's third-largest county by area. His jurisdiction includes its largest city, Greeley, and large swaths of farmland and areas of oil and gas production.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/colo-sheriff-refuses-enforce-gun-control-bills-024608155.html" target="_blank">CLICK ME TO SEE THE NEWS VIDEO WITH MORE! </a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Samstwitch, post: 66732, member: 2770"] [ATTACH=full]666[/ATTACH] [URL='http://news.yahoo.com/colo-sheriff-refuses-enforce-gun-control-bills-024608155.html'][SIZE=6]Colorado Sheriff refuses to enforce gun-control bills[/SIZE][/URL] [COLOR=#ccffcc]GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado sheriff says he won't enforce two aggressive gun-control measures waiting to be signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Weld County Sheriff John Cooke told The Greeley Tribune ([url="http://bit.ly/141Ee2z"]Cooke won’t enforce new state gun laws | GreeleyTribune.com[/url] ) that Democratic lawmakers are scrambling after recent mass shootings, and the bills are "feel-good, knee-jerk reactions that are unenforceable."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]One bill expands background checks on firearm purchases, and the other limits ammunition magazines to 15 rounds. The 15-round magazine limit would make Colorado the first state outside the East Coast to ratchet back gun rights after last year's shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Colorado's gun-control debates have been closely watched because of the state's gun-loving frontier heritage and painful history of mass shootings, most recently last summer's movie theater shooting that killed 12.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]The sheriff said he "won't bother enforcing" the laws because it would be impossible for officers to keep track of how the requirements are being met by gun owners — and he and other sheriffs are considering suing the state to block the measures if they are signed into law.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Cooke said the bill passed Friday requiring a $10 background check to legally transfer a gun wouldn't keep firearms out of the hands of those who use them for violence.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]"Criminals are still going to get their guns," he said.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]The sheriff's office did not immediately return calls left by The Associated Press.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]The magazine-limit bill passed earlier in the week will technically ban all magazines because of a provision that outlaws any magazine that can be altered, he said, adding that all magazines can be altered to a higher capacity.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Expanded checks have been a top priority for Hickenlooper, who called for the proposal during his State of the State address in January.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#ccffcc]Cooke oversees law enforcement in Colorado's third-largest county by area. His jurisdiction includes its largest city, Greeley, and large swaths of farmland and areas of oil and gas production.[/COLOR] [SIZE=6][URL='http://news.yahoo.com/colo-sheriff-refuses-enforce-gun-control-bills-024608155.html']CLICK ME TO SEE THE NEWS VIDEO WITH MORE! [/URL][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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