Posted April 23, 2018 5:02 pm by Comments

By Aaron Colen

A proposed ban on assault weapons is moving through the Boulder, Colorado, City Council, and gun rights advocates are making sure their opposition is seen and heard, the Daily Camera reported.

Gun rights protesters took to the streets over the weekend, many carrying semiautomatic rifles openly, to let the Boulder City Council know that a ban on their guns would not be accepted without pushback.

What’s the story?

The Boulder City Council passed the first reading of a city ordinance that would prohibit the sale and possession of “assault weapons.”

The Daily Camera reported that the ordinance defines assault weapons as:

  • All semiautomatic rifles that have the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and that have any of the following characteristics: a pistol grip or thumbhole stock; a folding or telescoping stock; or any protruding grip or other device to allow the weapon to be stabilized with the non-trigger hand.
  • All semiautomatic centerfire pistols that have any of the following characteristics: the capacity to accept a magazine other than in the pistol grip or any device to allow the weapon to be stabilized with the non-trigger hand.
  • Any firearm that has been modified to be operable as an assault weapon as defined by the city, …Read the Rest

    Source:: The Blaze

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