A leading gun rights advocacy group is “strongly considering” filing a lawsuit against Boulder County for its recently enacted slate of gun control ordinances.
“We have not sued yet, but we aren’t ruling anything out at this point,” Taylor Rhodes, executive director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners said Wednesday via email. “It is clear that RMGO and our members will be on the right side of history in this fight.”
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners last month filed a lawsuit to block some of the new gun ordinances passed by the town of Superior in June. A U.S. District Judge granted a portion of the group’s request for a restraining order to block the ordinances from becoming law, according to Channel 7 news.
On Tuesday, the Boulder County Commissioners passed five ordinances that included bans on the sale of assault weapons and the possession of “ghost guns”, as well as an age-based restriction and waiting period for purchasing a firearm, and restrictions on carrying firearms in sensitive public areas. “Ghost guns” are unserialized and untraceable firearms that can be bought online and assembled at home.
The commissioners cited their right to enact local gun laws under Colorado Senate Bill 21-256, which removed the restrictions that prohibited local jurisdictions in Colorado from passing gun violence prevention ordinances.
“The board’s adoption of these five gun violence prevention ordinances is our local response to Senate Bill 21-256, which allows local jurisdictions to act. We have made our commitment to the prevention of gun violence,” said Board of County Commissioners Chair Marta Loachamin in a news release. "These ordinances are for all of us who have been hurt by gun violence, either directly or indirectly, and provide examples of what other communities and our State can do to address gun violence in this country.”
Rhodes said the county’s ordinances are more far reaching than Superior’s, specifically the ban on ghost guns. “They have gone a step even further,” Rhodes said in a separate telephone interview.
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