We have commented extensively on Governor John Hickenlooper’s schizophrenia over a bill that would ban anything more than a pea shooter.
Late breaking word is that Hickenlooper’s argument with himself is now over.
From the intrepid Shaun Boyd of CBS4:
Gov Hickenlooper says he will sign billlimiting high capacity mags. My one-on-one interview at 5 and 6. #COpolitics #COleg
— Shaun Boyd (@CBS4Shaun) February 26, 2013
Hickenlooper’s move lines the currently popular Governor up with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is bankrolling the gun control push in Colorado. But the move puts him at logger heads with, for example, about every Democrat in Pueblo, and the publisher of that city’s newspaper.
Listen to the Pueblo Chieftain last week:
This week in the Colorado House, four gun bills were passed, albeit on rather short margins. We were greatly heartened that Rep. Ed Vigil, D-Alamosa, voted against all four of the bills while Rep. Leroy Garcia voted against three.
…Sen. Angela Giron, who has had to face pro-gun constituents twice recently and who will hear more during a town hall session on Saturday, should listen to those constituents. We’d be glad to announce she’s broken with her metro area Democrats just as Reps. Vigil and Garcia have done.
And if the bills do happen to reach the governor’s office, we hope Gov. John Hickenlooper will veto them.
Last month Bill Clinton famously predicted that Democrats would lose their jobs if they got sucked into the gun control mud. Hickenlooper apparently isn’t worried a lick.
And with it, there goes the Different-Kind-of-Democrat schtick.
this is a serious threat to the good citizens of colorado, more rights taken away. hickenlooper is just another cancer cell seeking to kill our 2nd amendment right. if he does not carry an american flag. GET THE HELL OUT.
This is really Republicans fault.
This is really Republicans fault. Dan Maes NEVER wanted to win the Governors' race. He actually wanted Hickenlooper to win. But Republicans had a choice between someone who would support freedom (Tom Tancredo) and a candidate who would sell them out (Maes). Many Republicans voted for the guy who would sell them out and had no chance of winning. Republicans voted Hickenlooper in office and this is what you get.
Agree. They just run over the top of everything and everyone. SICK!
Recall?
That a threat to the governor?
The gun control debate is raging, This is why I don't want guns in America: http://goo.gl/fm5sb.
Hickenlooper needs a new job along with the guys from magpul after they relocate. Hopefully he is stuck working under these hard working guys.
There are many times more of us than all the platoons of marines put together. What is more I think most of them are on our side. So suck it up we are not giving in.
Only 5 more years until I can get the hell out of this socialist state. Hate to leave after 42 years but reached my limit on liberals. In the meantime, I'll be working to get these asses unelected!
bye bye chickenpooper!
At this point, the only thing left is for Magpul to pack up and leave Colorado. Take their jobs, money brought into the state, and tax revenue and haul ass for a gun rights friendly state. Sometimes you have to learn lessons the hard way.
Recall won't work here, IMHO and will cost us time and money. We need a grassroots mobilization to vote these commies in the making out. Only if we had an informed electorate that does not take its freedom granted …
Not until I find a gulch in the Rockies; I am a couple of miles East of I-25 man!
The marines by training will follow the commander in chief
It's a tough battle, and not yet over – but it looks like sanity is going to win in Colorado.
I thought he sold Wynkoop but I could be wrong.
I agree but someone in each district of those that voted for it needs to take the initiative and that turns almost into a full time job. You can't do it electronically, the petition needs to be "approved" by the secretary of the state and once approved, you have 60 days to obtain 24% of the districts voters to sign the petition to force a recall vote. You almost need to first raise money to finance paying a group to run the recall effort.
That sounds nice but I am sure 10s of thousands of people on the eastern plains want not part of Denver politics either.
I hope you are right.
Good, let that sink in good and vote accordingly at mid term.
Boycott Wynkoop Brewery. Hickenlooper owns it.
Its funny that you think the military is going to side with the gun grabbers. Everyone knows the the vast majority of former and current service men and women are pro second amendment and pro gun. The Federal government seems smart enough to recognize this but the state gov's dont seem to grasp that yet.
We only have to convince the Marines WE ARE RIGHT! They need to follow their oath and DEFEND the constitution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that's fu(#*d
Freedom isn't free…Only your Obama phone was…
You're half right. You're right in that we'll do nothing about it but dead wrong if you think we will comply. WE WILL NOT COMPLY but hell will freeze over before we get our lazy, fat asses off the couch and walk the streets for our candidates. We'll sit and watch while a majority of Democrat hacks get re-elected in 2014. Just wait and see.
"To you tough-talking Neo-Cons with your AR-15 rifles and a few thousand rounds of ammo, here is the reality: they will take your guns, and no, all your Second Amendment bluster aside, you are not going to do anything about it. You are not going to take on a platoon of Marines with state-of-the-art automatic weapons and the best body armor you cannot buy protected by armed personnel carriers and attack helicopters unless you choose to die that day — for nothing. You will either be in the country or out, and if you are in, you will stay in and you will comply."
Vote this prick out! He can move to NY and be with his hero! We don't want him here.
Yes! I have a better opinion of the governor now.
He should start looking for a new job now as he will need one after the next election.
Hear that cracking sound? The politicians that won last November just walked too far out on the thin ice. Some of the worst offenders, like Joe Salazar, will likely face recall elections. The rest are lame ducks, serving their last term.
yeah, time to vote Hickenlooper out! And clean up the House and Senate in 2014!
Colorado follows in the footsteps of it's mother California and it's father New York. What a shame.
Colorado is not home but California
Pathetic idiots destroying their own state of jobs and tourists
Recall election anyone for everyone who voted/s for these unconstitutional bills?
Welcome to Texas Magpul.. time to stop drinking blue moon!
VOTE that S.S.O.B. OUT if your smart!
Well I guess if it comes out of Colorado, its on the boycott list will see how the dems like that.
Blue Moon is made by Miller Molson Coors
I am going to miss drinking Blue Moon, But we must boycott stupidity so it does not spread.
only need one round…
Keep NY out of Colorado! Send Bloomberg's ideology back where it came from…
Hick has been spending too much time at his brew pub. Colorado should become two states everything east of the front range can become the peoples republic.
Vote any politician out that disregards the constitution that is the supreme law of the land period…
Looks like MagPul's moving to Texas.
Yeah. Libtards blue stae looses Magpul.