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Colorado Officials Want DOJ to Investigate the State

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Attorney General Pam Bondi created a Second Amendment Task Force specifically to look into infringements on our Second Amendment rights. I'm pretty sure the task force isn't large enough because California still exists, to say nothing of New Jersey, Massachusetts, or plenty of other states.

But GOP officials in Colorado are asking for their state to get scrutiny here and now.

It's not just lawmakers, either:

A coalition of pro-Second Amendment groups, Republican lawmakers and sheriffs in Colorado sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi making the case for her office to look into gun laws they argue are unconstitutional.

The letter asks Bondi to direct the new Second Amendment Task Force to investigate local and state laws they say infringe on Coloradans' Second Amendment rights.

“Over the past few years, the State of Colorado and some of its larger cities and political subdivisions have, through a progression of increasingly oppressive and burdensome statutes and ordinances, engaged in a systematic and unrelenting campaign designed to restrict, impair, impede and ultimately extinguish Coloradans’ right to keep and bear arms in violation of our Constitution,” the letter states.


The letter goes on to list off several state laws and municipal codes, with Senate Bill 25-003 at the top of the list. The bill, which Gov. Jared Polis signed into law April 10 but goes into effect in August 2026, bans the manufacture, sale or purchase of semi-automatic rifles and shotguns that take detachable magazines. The law makes an exception for individuals who get a “firearms safety course eligibility card” from local law enforcement and then complete a state-approved firearm education course.

SB 25-003 “impermissibly burdens law-abiding gun owners, erodes self-defense rights, and restricts access to firearms in common use,” the letter says. “It clearly fails to meet the constitutional benchmarks set by the Supreme Court in these cases.” 

Rep. Lauren Boebert is one of the signers as well.

The truth is that the Colorado law won't make anyone safer. It doesn't impact criminal behavior in any way. All it does is create a burden for lawful gun buyers simply because Democrats in the state think semi-automatic firearms are too scary.

It's a technology that's been around for more than a century, for crying out loud, but now it needs to be effectively banned?

Hardly.

The question, though, is whether Bondi will do anything.

Yes, there's a task force, but we don't really know anything about its size and ability to handle multiple investigations at once. With an investigation ongoing involving the LA County Sheriff's Department, we don't know if they have the resources to actually look at anything else.

There's a big difference between a task force that takes up an entire floor at the DOJ and one that's relegated to a glorified broom closet. We just don't know where this task force falls on the spectrum.

But these officials are absolutely correct in making this request. This is something that needs to be done. We all know it needs to be done.

I'm just curious to see what Bondi ultimately does. This is just the latest request of a task force that was announced just a couple of weeks ago, so what will happen is a bit of a mystery.

Let's just hope the task force is a legitimate thing and not just a PR move.

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