Subject: No one is coming to take your gun
From: "Alan Franklin, ProgressNow Colorado" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 13:27:46 -0600 (CST)

ProgressNow Colorado

Dear Friend,

Support the Progressive Plan to Reduce Gun Violence
In response to terrible mass shootings last year, including the tragic
deaths of 12 people and wounding of dozens more at an Aurora, Colorado
movie theater, progressives in the Colorado legislature unveiled a
common-sense package of new legislation yesterday to better protect
the citizens of our state from gun violence.

http://progressnowcolorado.pnstate.org/site/R?i=lVeKtpabaWxw1mH-81tv8w

Right wing groups are flooding the airwaves with misinformation about
what these proposals would do. We're here to set the record straight:
if you own guns, no one is coming to take them. If you are a
law-abiding citizen who wants to legally buy a gun, no one is trying
to prevent that. This is Colorado, and we respect the rights of our
law-abiding neighbors to protect themselves and their families.

Click here to help us cut through the noise, and tell your Colorado
legislators it is time for common-sense measures we can take right now
to reduce gun violence.

http://progressnowcolorado.pnstate.org/site/R?i=WU8IHBWoh8kMg8QpFiKu1w

Here are the simple facts on the eight gun violence prevention
measures announced yesterday:

Assault Weapon Responsibility Act - (Senate President John Morse,
Representative Beth McCann) This bill will create strict liability for
manufacturers, sellers, owners, and possessors of firearms, with the
exception of handguns, bolt action rifles and shotguns.

Firearm Background Check Modernization Act - (Representative Rhonda
Fields, Representative Beth McCann, Senate Majority Leader Morgan
Carroll) This legislation will require background checks for all gun
buyers, regardless of how they acquire their guns. The bill also
includes provisions to enhance the real-time sharing of mental health
data between state and federal agencies; and a provision to allow
individuals denied access to firearms to appeal those denials.

High-Capacity Magazine Ban - (Representative Rhonda Fields, Senator
Mary Hodge) This bill will ban the sale, transfer, and ownership of
all new ammunition feeding devices (magazines, strips, and drums)
capable of accepting more than 10 rounds, after the enactment date of
the bill. Additionally, it will prohibit the sale or transfer of
large-capacity ammunition feeding devices lawfully possessed on the
date of enactment of the bill.

Mental Health Support - (Representative Beth McCann) The bill directs
mental health professionals to notify the CBI if in their professional
capacity they conclude that a person poses a danger of serious
physical harm to self or others. CBI would then place that person's
information into the Insta-background check database so that the
person would not be able to purchase a gun. Additionally, the bill
would direct that an individual be assessed by a mental health
professional for danger to possess a firearm at the time of release
from civil commitment, if that commitment was for dangerousness. If
the person is assessed dangerous to self or others, the mental health
professional would notify CBI so that the person would be flagged in
the system. The bill provides an opportunity to have gun rights
restored to individuals through the courts.

Domestic Violence Safeguards - (Senator Evie Hudak, Representative
Beth McCann) The bill will strengthen the protections in our laws to
prevent those who have domestic violence convictions, or protective
orders issued against them, from possessing firearms. This will help
protect victims of domestic violence from further violence by
clarifying state statute to comply with federal regulations and ensure
those already convicted of a domestic violence crime, or who have a
protective order against them, cannot access weapons.

In-Person Training for Concealed Carry Permits - (Senator Lois
Tochtrop, Representative Jenise May) The legislation specifies that
concealed carry permit holders, who are not exempt from training, must
undergo training in-person.  It prohibits training from being
done online.

Closing the Background Check State Subsidy - (Representative Lois
Court, Senator Rollie Heath) This bill would end an existing state
subsidy and could reduce wait times by requiring individuals to pay
for their own background checks from the CBI - which cost about $10.

Campus Safety - (Representative Claire Levy, Senator Rollie Heath)
This bill clarifies that concealed carry is prohibited in most areas
on college campuses in Colorado, including stadiums and arenas, to
help keep our young people safe and our college campuses secure from
violence.

Yesterday, Speaker of the House Mark Ferrandino said it best: "As a
civilized society, we cannot stand back and wait for another
Columbine, another Aurora." These are some common-sense measures
Colorado can take right now to reduce gun violence--and to keep guns
out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them, without infringing
on the rights of law-abiding citizens to own guns.

Click here, and sign our petition in support of the Colorado gun
violence prevention legislative package. We will deliver your names
and comments to members of the Colorado legislature next week.

http://progressnowcolorado.pnstate.org/site/R?i=RvnsG_LlLJvm6jFKcznl9Q

It seems like every time this issue is brought up, the extremist right
wing tries to irrationally derail the conversation. But Speaker
Ferrandino is right: the time is now to take common-sense action to
protect our communities from gun violence. Thanks for your help
cutting through the noise at this important moment: this time, it
could really help save a life.

Sincerely,

Alan Franklin

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