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CCRKBA Hails Owens for Signing Gun Law
Reform in Colorado
U.S. Newswire
18 Mar 18:54
CCRKBA Hails Gov. Owens for
Signing Gun Law Reform in Colorado
To: State Desk
Contact: Alan
Gottlieb or Dave Workman of the Citizens Committee
for the Right to Keep and
Bear Arms, 425-454-4911,
http://www.ccrkba.org
BELLEVUE, Wash., March 18 /U.S. Newswire/
-- The Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today
hailed
Colorado Gov. Bill Owens for signing into law Senate Bills 24 and
25, effectively reforming the Centennial State's firearms statutes.
SB 24, sponsored by Sen. Ken Chlouber,
and SB 25, authored by
Sen. Jim Dyer, allow Colorado to join over 30 other
states with a
"shall-issue" concealed carry license statute, and state
pre-emption clause, respectively, on the books. CCRKBA Chairman
Alan
Gottlieb said Gov. Owens demonstrated leadership and common
sense,
especially after being hounded and assailed by gun control
extremists in an
attempt to have him veto the measures.
"This is a great day for Colorado gun
owners, and the lawmakers
who worked so hard to pass these sensible
measures," Gottlieb
stated. "No longer will Coloradoans be faced with a
patchwork of
gun control ordinances that make certain practices legal in one
jurisdiction, and outlaw them in another 40 miles away. Gov. Owens
deserves credit for making this possible, and for standing firm
against
the anti-gunners who wanted to continue treating Colorado
gun owners as
second-class citizens.
"Law-abiding Colorado gun owners will no
longer be faced with
having their self-defense rights restricted by the
whims of
patronage," he continued. "Henceforth, gun owners who meet all the
criteria will be assured that they can apply for a concealed carry
license, and get it."
Gun prohibitionists have argued that
passage of these
common-sense reform measures will lead to an increase in
gun
violence and return Colorado to the days of the Old West. Gottlieb
called those dire predictions preposterous.
"In every state where these laws have
passed," he said,
"licensed gun owners have put the lie to such nonsense.
Wherever
right-to-carry laws are now on the books, gun owners have been put
on an equal footing with criminals, and violent crime rates have
actually declined, and anti-gunners know it. The next year should
prove
they've been lying in Colorado like they have in every other
state where
they have fought similar legislation.
"Anti-gun extremists lost," he concluded,
"but Colorado citizens
won. They have Senators Chlouber and Dyer, and Gov.
Owens to thank
for that."
With more than 650,000 members and
supporters nationwide, the
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear
Arms is one of
the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a
non-profit
organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving
firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and
facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in
local
communities throughout the United States.
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