I'll give up my guns when the cops do it first.

This will get struck down, and it'll be the one thing I agree with when it does. You can't just make everything except bolt-action rifles illegal. Semi-automatic firearms encompasses 99% of what people use for self defense in America. This is a clear violation of rights.

If it passes there, it could bring Colorado in line with 10 other states — including California, New York and Illinois — that have prohibitions on semiautomatic guns. 

Zero states ban semiautomatic firearms.

Supreme Court shoots it down in 3-2-1...

The Heller ruling in 2008 already decided this.

Washington D.C. had effectively banned pistols, the court ruled then:

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/554/570/

"As the quotations earlier in this opinion demonstrate, the inherent right of self-defense has been central to the Second Amendment right. The handgun ban amounts to a prohibition of an entire class of “arms” that is overwhelmingly chosen by American society for that lawful purpose. The prohibition extends, moreover, to the home, where the need for defense of self, family, and property is most acute. Under any of the standards of scrutiny that we have applied to enumerated constitutional rights,[Footnote 27] banning from the home “the most preferred firearm in the nation to ‘keep’ and use for protection of one’s home and family,” 478 F. 3d, at 400, would fail constitutional muster."

So, no, you can't ban an entire class of weapon.

This ban will apply to police as well?

This just seems like a stupid time to be pressing legislation like this. I don't even disagree with it myself. I just think it's idiotic from a political perspective. The Dems can see the GoP struggling with the fall out of Roe v. Wade, and they still want to step into this fight now?

Imagine still wanting gun control people after January 6th 2021 and the police violence of the George floydd protests.

We're on our own, stop hiding your heads in the sand.

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It's not a "Semi-Automatic Firearm Ban" it's an Assault Weapons Tax. Seriously the only penalties in this bill are modest ($750) fines.

No matter which side of this debate you are on this legislation is a joke.

This will never get past the Supreme Court because it is blatantly unconstitutional.

Nice job wasting money posturing for your base, colorado democrats.

You're just like the grifters in florida.

Conservatives are demanding the widespread oppression and even slaughter of our nation's most vulnerable groups and the best we can come up with is "let's disarm ourselves". FFS

Why not outlaw far-right ideologies like nazism? The conservatives would oppose that too, but it's something all the normal people can agree on.

Isn't that like... most guns people actually use other than some shotguns and some handguns? And even then, why you would use a pump action over a semi-automatic shotgun is beyond me...

If only Americans could be like the Swiss, y’all could have your guns and none of the problems.

My .22 varmint rifle is semiauto. They take those too?