Colorado lawmakers are finding out that there are some among them who are willing to trample over nearly the entire Bill of Rights just to squash one particular – and politically-disfavored – amendment.
Colorado state Rep. Ken DeGraaf – a Republican from Colorado Springs, who is also a 27-year Air Force veteran – was forced to cover a pro-Second Amendment sticker on his laptop computer during debate over a gun ban bill. The bill, SB 25-003, is one of the strictest gun control measures proposed in any state in the nation and is being hotly-debated in Colorado. The proposed law was introduced to ban the sale or transfer of any semiautomatic rifle or shotgun that can accept a detachable magazine.
Rep. DeGraaf committed the cardinal sin of affixing a pro-Second Amendment sticker to his computer.
Rights Denied
“I had to cover up this, they couldn’t stand my sticker,” Rep. DeGraaf explained during remarks on the state House’s floor, according to Fox News. He pointed to a piece of paper that covered the offensive sticker – which wasn’t so offensive or vulgar that it needed to be censored.
“It said ‘shall not be infringed’ and signed ‘2-A’ and that was considered offensive, which I understand would be offensive to this bill,” Rep. DeGraaf added.
The House speaker presiding over the debate interrupted Rep. DeGraaf to explain, “There’s just a rule that we don’t have that type of things [sic] in the well.”
Rep. DeGraaf understood, answering, “So, okay. No displays of the Constitution in the well. Got it.”
COLORADO GOP REP FORCED TO COVER 2A STICKER IN HOUSE CHAMBER
State Rep. Ken DeGraaf says he was told to hide a “shall not be infringed – 2A” sticker on his laptop because it was “offensive.”
The move comes as Colorado Democrats push a sweeping gun control bill targeting… pic.twitter.com/Y0PD6kmIEf
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 23, 2025
The well, for those who might not know, is the area in the state’s House of Representatives between the chamber’s front desk and the first row of the members’ seats.
The rule, it seems, was being enforced to infringe on one constitutionally-protected right, that of free speech, to attack another, the legislation to ban the sale of an entire class of firearms without express permission from the state to exercise that right. In Colorado, the U.S. Constitution seems to not apply. That shows the level of absurdity and depravity of gun control lawmakers to push their unconstitutional agenda.
Constitutionally-Dubious Bill
The bill, SB 25-003, is likely days away from passage. It is strongly opposed by NSSF and several other pro-Second Amendment advocacy groups. It has endured a tortured path to arrive on the doorstep of passage. The goal was to find a way to ban the most-popular selling centerfire rifle in America – the AR-15 or modern sporting rifle. There are over 30 million MSRs in circulation today, more than there are Ford F-150s on the road, the most-popular selling pick-up truck in America.
SB 25-003 was introduced in the state Senate has been amended several times and now allows the sale of those firearms provided those purchasing the firearm are vetted by a local sheriff and complete a firearm certification course. House lawmakers stripped out fingerprinting requirements but added a provision to allow county sheriffs to vet purchasers to deny an application if they have a “reasonable belief that documented previous behavior by the application makes it likely the applicant will present a danger to themself or others.”
Sheriffs could revoke purchasing permissions under the same standard. The ban bill has essentially turned into a permit-to-purchase bill that seems to run into the same subjective criteria the U.S. Supreme Court rejected in the Bruen decision. Those individuals who have documented criteria that would prohibit a firearm purchase would already be flagged by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
Not every sheriff in Colorado is on board. El Paso County Sheriff Joe Roybal doesn’t support the proposed legislation and testified in the House Judiciary Committee, saying the measure “will not make Coloradans safer.”
“By banning the purchasing, selling and manufacturing of semi-automatic firearms used by thousands of law-abiding citizens for home and personal safety, this legislation not only jeopardizes the fundamental right to self-defense but also infringes on inherent constitutional rights, setting a dangerous legal precedent for the future of the Second Amendment in Colorado,” Sheriff Roybal testified, according to The Truth About Guns. “Proponents of the bill claim it will help curb gun violence; however, SB 25-003 will have the opposite effect. This bill effectively targets law-abiding gun owners rather than criminals, who, by definition, do not follow the law and will obtain a firearm through illegal channels.”
Rush to Pass
There are still unanswered questions over how Colorado would administer these new requirements for purchasing semiautomatic rifles and shotguns that can accept detachable magazines. Currently, once a person obtains a county sheriff’s permit-to-purchase the firearm, that person would need to complete a state-approved certification course administered by Colorado Parks and Wildlife. However, no such course curriculum has been approved and funding for the program has yet to be clarified.
“This bill is not ready for prime time. It needs more stakeholder process and let’s have some statewide conversations and if a bill is going to pass, it should be in the right form…” said Colorado’s House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese, according to KTTV. “They were different funds that would be used, and even today (Friday) on the house floor, there were changes to the funding structure.”
SB 25-003 has passed Colorado’s Senate and passed the House of Representatives on a second reading. It is expected the bill could be up for a final vote before the week’s end and headed to Gov. Jared Polis for consideration.
Nephi Cole is Director for Government Relations – State Affairs for the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
They would have pissed their nickers if he had a pop-tart!
People this feeble do not deserve a comment/response.
They would have pissed their Knickers………….my mistake.
WOLVERINES…How soon Coloradans forgot. 26 days
“WOLVERINES!”
Only this time, the United States government has already sold out to the Russians.
And our totally competent national security apparatus is conducting war ops planning on an open source civilian chat app.
Not so much ‘Red Dawn’, more like ‘Keystone Kops’ meets ‘Battleship Potemkin’.
26 days of what?
could be many things. got tired of it back around 80days. just have some steak and bourbon to commemorate those that paid for your freedoms with their lives and he should be ok. i doubt if he’ll start in with 364.5 to go.
colorado has like three wolverines, the last sighting in ’09, 90yrs since the previous. the wolverine state has less than one, the first sighting in one hundred years was ’12 and she has been found frozen. now in an interpretive center display case.
Groundbreaking Study Reveals 30% Ammunition Weight Reduction Can Save Lives & Enhance Military Efficiency.
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The article is about Colorado state politics, and you’re posting about the weight of ammunition?
OK, I’m happy to change the subject along with you.
Where are the prosecutions for all the Social Security fraud you claim is occurring at the Social Security administration?
“According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE,” Musk posted, accompanying an Excel spreadsheet displaying age brackets and recipient numbers. He humorously added, “Maybe Twilight is real, and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security.”
He shared data that suggested over 20 million recipients aged 100-plus, including 3.9 million aged 130-139, 3.5 million aged 140-149, and 1.3 million aged 150-159.”
Elon Musk is a man baby liar, and those who support him are complicit in his traitorous behavior.
And regarding your post about a ‘manhood problem’ with the Democrats, it’s clear the real manhood problem is with Trump and Muskrat who have multiple children with multiple baby mamas because they are insecure about their manhood, pathetic.
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“According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE,” Musk posted
Why do you continue to call this BS, Miner? I’ve already proven that it’s true with a Biden Admin document. The only difference between the Biden and Trump Admins is that the Trump Admin is sounding the alarm while the Biden SSA said they wanted to leave these SS #’s alone.
Now why would they want to do that? Well, why do they want to leave invalid voters on the electoral rolls? Answer: because they serve a purpose! Let’s see if we can put our brains together and figure out who would need one of those expired SS#’s. Also, in totally unrelated news, the Biden Admin invited 12 million illegals into our country. Totally unrelated…
July 2023
SSA’s Numident included approximately 18.9 million numberholders who were born in 1920 or earlier but had no death information on their Numident record.
Taking action to include death information for the millions of numberholders omitted from the DMF would enhance Government-wide improper payment prevention and detection.
https://perma.cc/R69X-964Y
“Why do you continue to call this BS, Miner?“
The proof is in the pudding, where are the prosecutions, indictments, charges?
“approximately 18.9 million numberholders who were born in 1920 or earlier but had no death information on their Numident record“
You can’t be that dense, you must know that Social Security was not implemented until 1935, and that many deaths between 1920 and the present day were not recorded in any federal database.
Recordkeeping in rural America in the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s was spotty at best so many death records never made it past the county registrar.
And Social Security didn’t even institute their central death index until 1962:
“The “Social Security Death Index” is a database created from the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File. This is an index of deceased individuals whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. It has been kept since 1962, when operations were computerized“
And Trump has been in office for two months, not one charge, not one prosecution or indictment, it’s all bullshit and you know it.
“You can’t be that dense”
Miner, those are not my words. I was very clearly quoting a Biden Admin document. I even listed the source for you. Who is dense again? Wow, you never cease to amaze me.
Dude. The honeybee does not waste his time explaining to the fly that honey tastes better than shit.
You are mischaracterizing my reply, my comment about your cranial density was related to your claims that there are millions of individuals unlawfully collecting Social Security with apparent ages of 130 or older.
I continue to be amazed you can’t grasp that many death records at the turn of the century did not make it into the SSA death index.
You know, the same is true of birth records as well, folks born out on the prairie or in the mountain states in the 20s, 30s and 40s never made it onto a federal database. When these folks became elderly and applied for Social Security, the SSA would insert a generic birthdate into the system as a placeholder.
Really, all this information is publicly available, but as it does not fit your delusional framework you will of course ignore the facts.
“honey tastes better than shit“
What a numbskull, neither honeybees or flies eat shit or honey.
I can only conclude that because you know honey tastes better than shit, you have tried both.
While that’s disgusting its not surprising.
“related to your claims that there are millions of individuals unlawfully collecting Social Security with apparent ages of 130 or older.”
That wasn’t what you said. I responded to what you said. You’re changing the subject again. When did I claim that? Quote me. You’re making stuff up again, and you’re polluting the comment section with senseless BS. You are the epitome of TDS.
@jwm Sometimes you have to swat an annoying fly.
then why are there tshirts that say “eat shit one trillion flies can’t be wrong?”
bees just manufacture honey for people with sore throats and poohbear.
of course bees eat honey. how do they create a queen? royal jelly, a form of honey.
Flies find poop, especially of larger invertebrates, delicious. Well, in short, poops are nutrient-dense lotteries for flies.
That’s all for today, class lol.
“the Biden Admin invited 12 million illegals“
Biden didn’t invite anyone, and your fantasy that Donald Trump somehow closed the border is nothing but more bullshit propaganda
“In reality, apprehensions at the border in Trump’s final two months in office were substantially higher than in President Barack Obama’s last two months in office. (Apprehensions were 43,251 in December 2016 and 31,576 in January 2017, the last two months of the Obama presidency, compared with 71,141 and 75,316 in Trump’s last two months.) Indeed, there were more than 69,000 apprehensions in each of the last four months of the Trump administration, from October 2020 through January 2021. But the highest number of apprehensions under Obama was 67,342 in March 2009.“
ttps://www.factcheck.org/2024/04/trumps-misleading-chart-on-illegal-immigration/
“the Biden SSA said they wanted to leave these SS #’s alone“
Another bullshit propaganda claim.
From the text you quote above:
“Taking action to include death information for the millions of numberholders omitted from the DMF would enhance Government-wide improper payment prevention and detection.“
Are you disputing the fact that Biden’s anti-fraud efforts resulted in the collection of $2.9 billion in convictions and settlements in fiscal year 2024, as I posted on another thread?
As you say, the proof is in the pudding. This isn’t even ignorance on your part. You’re lying, and you know you’re lying. Don’t you ever get tired of lying all the time? You would do anything to take up for The Party. Try one month of taking up for The Party while being completely honest. I dare you.
pudding:
Feb 2024 border encounters: 256,071
Feb 2025 border encounters: 28,654
Get your parents to help you with the math. It’s quite the difference.
Source:
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters
What was required to secure the border? Was it a new bill as the Democrats and news media told us? No, it was merely a president that was willing to enforce existing laws. It turns out that Democrats and fake news lied to us, just like you keep lying to us Miner.
“Another bullshit propaganda claim.”
That claim came from the official document I previously linked. Did you read it, or are you just making stuff up again? If you read it, then you need to work on your reading comprehension skills. So are you stupid, or are you a liar?
are those mutually exclusive? i read that dead people don’t know they’re dead and that only those around them feel pain. the same is true for the stupids.
“then why are there tshirts that say… “
Flies don’t eat shit, they lay their eggs in it. Aren’t there any country boys on this forum?
Flies land on the shit, lay their eggs in it, the eggs gestate and hatch into MAGAs.
When have you ever remained on subject without Russia, orange man bad, or MDS?
Pete Hegseth
TEAM UPDATE:
TIME NOW (1144et): Weather is FAVORABLE. Just CONFIRMED w/ CENTCOM we are a GO for mission
launch. 1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike
package) 1345: “Trigger Based” F-18 1st Strike
Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME) – also, Strike Drones Launch
(MQ-9s) 1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike
package) 1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL
DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier
“Trigger Based” targets) 1536: F-18 2nd Strike Starts – also, first
sea-based Tomahawks launched.
MORE TO FOLLOW (per timeline)
We are currently clean on OPSEC.
CENTCOM we are a GO for mission
launch. 1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike
package) 1345: “Trigger Based” F-18 1st Strike
Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME) – also, Strike Drones Launch
(MQ-9s) 1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike
package) 1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL
DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier
“Trigger Based” targets) 1536: F-18 2nd Strike Starts – also, first
sea-based Tomahawks launched.
MORE TO FOLLOW (per timeline)
We are currently clean on OPSEC.
Godspeed to our Warriors.
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Hey y’all, please ignore that last message, y’all got placed on a group chat by accident. If you would just pay no attention to that message that would be great, thanks!
Your new talking points need refinement especially when the narrative behind it is already crumbling.
Why are you here? Other than to assuage your little ego that is.
So, a sticker with the 2nd Amendment to out Bill of Rights is offensive?!?!? Now I’M offended. If it had been me they said that to, I would have told someone to go pound sand, and maybe offered to help.
fascist rats
“The proposed law was introduced to ban the sale or transfer of any semiautomatic rifle or shotgun that can accept a detachable magazine.”
The bill (SB 25-003) includes any gas-operated semi-auto handgun. Essentially a direct ban on any firearm other than a revolver, or single shot long gun.