There is debate as Colo. Gun laws take effect

Denver (AP) - Global Background Checks ammunition magazine and county sheriffs needs new rules state Democrats' signature pieces of gun control legislation in the fight to overturn, take effect Monday in Colorado.

Tension between state officials after months of debate, discussion moves from abstract to concrete. Some gun stores already comply with the limit of 15 round magazines for storage are small. Meanwhile, online sales in the coming months and for public-private background check will show how the expansion will work. There are still many questions where the answer is one area.

Shooting rampages last year rattled the relatives of those killed in the rules of a long-term impact is expected, but he urged patience.



"Nothing is going to happen overnight," whose son Alex, 12, was among a suburban Denver on July 20 in the latest Batman movie theater watching Tom Sullivan said the victim. Dozens more were injured.

The owner of a car than a gun owner is not surprising Large swaths of rural areas with a politically moderate state - Theatre fire, a Newtown, Conn., With primary school massacre in Colorado I became a turning point for stricter gun laws.

Anything more than 15 round magazine that came with it to some extent as a result of the ban on handguns and rifles will.

"It's a very poorly thought-out, non-economic legislation and its a shame to harm anyone with a criminal is not going to stop," Paul Paradis, Paradise Sales in Colorado Springs the owner said. Paradis will be banned soon, the magazine has already sold his shop.

Others are seeing the same rush.

"Everyone's like, 'Oh my gosh, that is Monday.' We have a lot of people running in and catch whatever they can do, "Chris Burnett, Durango in the Rocky Mountain Pawn and Gun is the manager.

But as soon as it was after Newtown's not true, he said. Magazine Even before the rules take effect in days to gun rights advocates are launching a last hurray. Magpul Industries, a Colorado-based magazine maker, it sold off the magazine and one week in Glendale, a suburb of Denver for the first 1,500 participants in the sale is a free 30-round magazine.

Despite assurances by the new law is in the process of migration. The company said that they did not move.

Paradis is the new magazine limit, expand background checks and other shop owners that raises some problems. They thought their business expenses because they store their firearms will buy out for consumers. But for someone a background check for a gun for sale look at their store will be those who turn away, he said. Business owners can not afford to do so, said.

Then stores them in the context of the work of processing checks cost $ 50, Richard Taylor, Aurora's firing line manager.

"We do it for $ 10 then we will lose money," Taylor said.



It really held out the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, a gun shop a background check for private sales management refused to do what is not clear in the cases, said spokeswoman Susan Medina that.

"As we move forward are going to have to evaluate everything," he said.

At the same time, Colorado sheriffs background checks and magazine world with the purpose of attacking the boundaries of the state are taking a case to court. The next court date sheriffs' trial lawyers temporarily while magazine revenues will try to block the law, which is July 10.

Case, sheriffs law allows and legislation to prevent people from inadvertently breaking the law does not provide adequate supervision over her round ammunition magazine can be converted to the discussion. He also private citizens to comply with extensive background check will be hard to argue.

Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper and Republican Attorney General John Suthers Magazine borders are written instructions. Suthers Magazine It can be modified to include only the "big potential" can be defined as.

However, Republicans are not guaranteed, and any new regulations for votes.

There is debate as lawmakers in the new laws passed this year, which has given some hope to the victims' relatives. For Sullivan, the rules are the first step, he said, "if the situation with my family here in Colorado does not happen to other families.,"