More spinning out of control by the Colorado legislature. I'm not even going to work very hard pointing out the problems here.
1) As pointed out in this article, this proposed legislation "may conflict with a 2005 federal law that protects gun makers and sellers from liability for crimes committed with their products". Shall we hold the Ford Motor Company and the automobile dealership legally responsible for vehicular manslaughter too?
2) The "insurance" would only apply to these "dangerous weapons," so-called assault weapons, responsible for less than 2% of criminal homicide. The Columbine shooters used 4 firearms, 1 of which was a so-called assault weapon. The Aurora shooter used 3 firearms, 1 of which was a so-called AW. The Fort Hood and Virginia Tech shooters used only pistols. Did the victims of the non-AW firearms in those 3 incidents die any less than the ones shot with so-called AWs?
3) Does anyone think that criminals are concerned with whether they have the legally required insurance for the devices to be used in their crimes? All this accomplishes is making it more expensive for law abiding citizens exercising their 2nd Amendment rights.
4) This essentially results in another firearms registry. Does anyone think that in the world we live in, the names of consumers who have taken firearms insurance cannot or will not be made public eventually? Our world includes Wiki Leaks, Anonymous, media outlets like already demonstrated in New York where firearms owners' names and addresses were recently published online in an interactive map, other overzealous gun control advocates, traitorous actions like those of Bradley Manning, and another sovereign nation requesting access to US firearms registration data.
5) "The bill I envision... it will deem these guns as unreasonably dangerous," said Morse. "It will not ban them, it will just hold people strictly liable, strictly responsible for what occurs. The effect is that everyone in the chain will be responsible for the actions of that gun." --- These "unreasonably dangerous" firearms have been used in an average of less than 50 murders per year since 2004. Chicago had more than 10 times that number last year, and not from these firearms.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/colorado-lawmaker-proposes-liability-law-for-assault-weapons-owners-sellers
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