Colorado’s Magazine Ban Is The Latest Gun Control Failure

By Cam Edwards

Six years ago, after the Aurora theater massacre, Colorado governor John Hickenlooper signed several pieces of gun control legislation into law. Universal background checks and a ban on magazines over 15 rounds were touted at the time as game changers for public safety in the state, but it hasn’t worked out that way. Violent crime’s actually gone up 25% in Colorado since the bills took effect in 2013.

We’ve previously covered the fact that Colorado’s background check law didn’t actually lead to more background checks, so we won’t rehash the failures of that particular law here. Let’s talk instead about the fact that in the six years since Colorado’s magazine ban was put on the books, it’s been used in only a handful of prosecutions across the state. In fact, KUPC reports fewer than a dozen individuals have been sentenced for violating the magazine ban since 2013. George Brauchler, the District Attorney in the state’s 18th Judicial District, says the handful of prosecutions from his office all stemmed from other violations of law, many involving illicit drugs or illegally possessed firearms. As it turns out, the law is not only unconstitutional (given the fact that magazines …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms