Boulder residents are facing a new attack on their second amendment rights. They have until the 27th of december to certify or remove their “assault weapons” from the city limits. Those who do not comply with the new law could face jailtime, fines, confiscation or destruction of their firearms.
Unable to identify those with criminal intent, Boulder imputes criminality to innocent citizens and seizes their legal firearms! https://t.co/0comeSF7za— Mt. States Legal Fnd (@MSLF) May 17, 2018
According to the DenverPost Boulder police have certified 85 assault weapons to residents with less than a month to go before all such firearms will need to be verified or removed from the city.A ban on the sale or possession of assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and bump stocks was passed unanimously in May by Boulder city council. Guns already owned by residents were grandfathered in; council gave residents until the end of the year to obtain a certificate.
Jeremy Papasso, Daily Camera
Certification is not a registry; the department keeps no records or paperwork of any kind. The only information they have is a handwritten count, said Boulder police Sgt. Dave Spraggs . Eighty-seven certificates have been issued to date. Two of those were redundancies, for the same weapon shared between a husband and wife.Following a resident request, “we agreed to do that,” Spraggs said. “We have taken a common-sense…