Gun owners worry what will happen during Democratic controlled legislature

The landscape at Colorado’s State Capitol is different this year: The House, Senate, and Governor’s office are all Democrat, which has gun-owners at the Colorado Springs Gun Show worried they might be facing more regulations.

Steven Deaver, a vendor at the Colorado Springs Gun and Knife show said, “hopefully the people of the state will stand by our Second Amendment rights.”

Back in 2013, the last time Democrats held the majority in Colorado, House Bill 13-1224 passed, stopping the sales of gun magazines that could hold more than 15 bullets.

It is something the people selling and shopping here haven’t forgotten.

Another vendor says it didn’t do much.

“It’s all based on fear, anybody can take a spring out, they can take a 30 round mag, they can take a plug out, it hasn’t stop anything of these things,” another vendor said.

Three bills, including concealed handguns at a school, and allowing a business owner to defend himself with a firearm, have already gone before lawmakers and failed before they made it out of committee.

The big worry is for a bill coined as the Red Flag Bill will likely pass. This bill allows law enforcement to take someone’s guns who are deemed mentally unstable.

Phil Copple, a customer at the gun show said, “it’s a hard call because it’s a judgment call more than anything.”

Other all gun-owners, like Alex Gillingham, weren’t worried.

He said, “if it comes out this person isn’t equipped to have weapons then it turns into something else and that person finds another way to harm someone, it’s like a double edged sword.”

It’s a bill that hasn’t been introduced, but both lawmakers and gun-owners are awaiting it’s the introduction to see what happens.

Thirteen other states have passed similar bills.