DENVER, CO (June 5, 2019) -- Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and
Firearms Policy Foundation (FPF) announced the filing of an important brief
before the Colorado Supreme Court in Sternberg v. Colorado, a case challenging
the State’s ban on so-called “large-capacity” firearm magazines. The
brief may be viewed at www.firearmspolicy.org/legal.

Despite strong protections for the right to keep and bear arms in Colorado’s
constitution, the State’s General Assembly enacted a ban on so-called
“large-capacity magazines.” The law barred the sale, possession, and
transfer of such magazines after July 1, 2013.
FPC and FPF’s brief, authored by attorney, historian, and FPC Legal Scholar
Joseph Greenlee, was joined by Second Amendment Foundation and Millennial
Policy Center. In the 28-page brief, the groups provide significant historical
facts and context to persuasively counter the State’s false arguments made in
defending the gun control scheme, such as the notion that Colorado’s
constitutional framers had no concept of repeating rifles and ammunition
feeding devices that hold more than 15 rounds.

“Bans on modern-day firearms are often rationalized by the argument that
federal and state founders could not have envisioned today’s guns,”
explained Greenlee. “Our brief shows that the framers of Colorado’s
constitution were intimately familiar with firearms capable of firing more than
15 rounds, and that they intended to protect them through an exceptionally
strong arms provision in the state constitution.”
“Firearms that could hold 15 or more rounds of ammunition pre-date even the
founding of Colorado as a state,” FPC President Brandon Combs said. “Such
firearms and magazines are constitutionally protected today, period. Time and
technological evolution do not change the fundamental nature or the scope of
constitutional rights against government infringement.”

“This is an important case because it is testing state gun laws against
Colorado’s strong right-to-keep-and-bear-arms state constitutional
provision,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb.
“Frankly, joining in this brief has been a delight, not only because we enjoy
working with our colleagues, but also because it offers an opportunity to add a
historical perspective to this discussion.”

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