The BBC has an article and video by Franz Strasser about gub laws in Colorado:
In July of 2012, a gunman shot dead twelve people and injured nearly sixty more at a cinema in the Colorado town of Aurora. James Holmes, who will face a murder trial in December of 2014, is accused of firing a shotgun and handgun during the screening of a Batman movie. He is also alleged to have used a semi-automatic rifle with a hundred-round drum magazine.Rico says a magazine change takes but seconds, obviating the intent of the law...
The mass shooting, which was followed several months later by another at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, prompted a national push for stricter gun control laws led by President Barack Obama.
In Colorado, which also endured the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper signed laws banning the sale of ammunition magazines with more than fifteen rounds, and broadening the requirements for background checks before gun purchases.
Twenty months after that controversial laws went into effect, the magazine ban seems not to be working as intended. And, in a Western state where guns are said to be part of the way of life, the politicians who called for gun control are on the defensive.
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