[ April 23, 2024 ]
The U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado deferred an important case on the Second Amendment rights of citizens and in so doing, upheld a batch of unconstitutionally enacted regulations from Boulder’s City Council.
The case stems from a May court decision.
That’s when Boulder’s local authorities put in place a set of regulations limiting what citizens could purchase and own in terms of firearms and ammunition.
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Specifically, authorities outright banned some of the most commonly owned firearms in the United States.
More from Mountain States Legal Foundation:
In a decision issued yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado refrained from vindicating the constitutionally protected rights of Boulder residents.
In May of this year, the City of Boulder enacted an array of unconstitutional firearm and magazine regulations. Yesterday, the court deferred to the State of Colorado court system to determine whether the city had the authority to enact its new regulations in the first place.
“While we will always support the principle of federalism, this decision forces the people of Boulder to wait to vindicate their rights under the U.S. Constitution,” said Cody J. Wisniewski, of Mountain States Legal Foundation, the lead attorney on the case.
Boulder city council members voted unanimously to ban some of the most commonly used firearms and magazines in the United States. Council members also raised the age of legal gun ownership in the city from 18 to 21.
Boulder resident Jon Caldara, a plaintiff in the lawsuit who seeks to have Boulder’s ordinance overturned, is a vocal opponent of the City of Boulder’s discrimination against firearm owners.
“I have lived in Boulder since 1984,” Mr. Caldara said. “I believe we need to hold Boulder to its own standards in celebrating diversity and tolerance.”
“This is hate,” Mr. Caldara added, speaking of the city council’s view toward gun owners. “These are elitists who want people like me out of their town.”
Mr. Wisniewski added that the plaintiffs are evaluating their options in the wake of yesterday’s decision. “We will not give up the fight to defend the constitutionally protected rights of the people of Boulder,” he said.
In 2012, Mountain States Legal Foundation, on behalf of its clients, prevailed in the Colorado Supreme Court in Regents of the University of Colorado v. Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. The Court’s unanimous decision in that case confirmed the right of concealed carry permit holders to possess concealed firearms on the public university’s campus.
Mountain States Legal Foundation, created in 1977, is a nonprofit, public-interest legal foundation dedicated to individual liberty, the right to own and use property, limited and ethical government, and the free enterprise system. Its offices are in suburban Denver, Colorado.
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10 Comments
5 years ago
The district judge is waiting to see how the Judge Cavanaugh confirmation end up. If confirmed, the district judge will rule against, if not confirmed, the district judge will rule in favor.
5 years ago
Don’t live in boulder
5 years ago
Remember what I said? If it’s unconstitutional you don’t have to obey it. Simple no? Why won’t you make it simple? Are you on their side? Are you ruled by phony bureaucraps or YOUR Constitution? Keep it simple like they say. Ignore the phony bureaucraps. it’s not about your Constitution but about their mortgage payments.
Unbelievable! Is that how you run your life?
5 years ago
Boulders gun club will be as much use as its beach club.
Americans’ fight every inch of the way any legislation that try’s to ban your right to bear arms or you will be left with nothing to defend your homes from the muzrat invaders that will surely come.
Best of luck from Britain.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
….come? They are already here…thanks to the “refugee (invaders)” Obama brought in….and the Left are allowing in on our border…..
To the people of Boulder: Don’t you have a right to recall your city council wanks?
5 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
What you have in the USA now is nothing compared to what you are going to get. The breeding program of the muzrats is in full swing and Americans or westerners generally can not and will not compete with it. And even despite having the good president Trump in office still muzrat migrants flood into your country. So many of them that now they are spilling through illegal border crossings into Canada.
But it’s still not to late.
Keep a close watch on migration and demand answers from your Congressman. I could advise more extreme measures but will leave it there for now.
FREE THE FLORIDA BACON MAN????????NOW!
5 years ago
Boulder, Berkeley, Austin, Tucson, etc. are the rare communist outposts in the normally-conservative West.
5 years ago
Joe, there’s places in Colorado that AREN’T Boulder. It’s a beautiful city (or used to be, I don’t get there often), but it’s also a TAD liberal. No. It’s a liberal pimple on Colorado’s butt.
