{"id":1944601,"date":"2023-06-05T16:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T20:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/protesters-push-for-colorado-governor-to-sign-executive-order-banning-all-guns-impose-mandatory-buyback\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T16:27:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T20:27:29","slug":"protesters-push-for-colorado-governor-to-sign-executive-order-banning-all-guns-impose-mandatory-buyback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/protesters-push-for-colorado-governor-to-sign-executive-order-banning-all-guns-impose-mandatory-buyback\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters demand Colorado Governor to ban all guns and enforce mandatory buyback."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprotesters-push-for-colorado-governor-to-sign-executive-order-banning-all-guns-impose-mandatory-buyback%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1944601&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Gathering for Gun Control: Activists Push for Ban in Colorado<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>A group of gun control activists has gathered at the Colorado state capitol in Denver in a long-shot bid to convince Democratic Gov. Jared Polis to ban all guns in the state for at least 30 days.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The group, known as Here 4 The Kids, organized an all-day sit-in with the stated goal of getting Polis to adopt an executive order they\u2019d already drafted for him. The <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/642b93d966be963ff86b8edc\/t\/647797410cabf231893c4b46\/1685559105409\/EO+final+draft+052523.pdf\">draft executive order<\/a> would have Polis issue a disaster declaration over gun violence and \u201cban the use, loading, possession or carrying of all firearms in Colorado, including but not limited to firearms for personal protection, hunting, law enforcement or any otherwise lawful purpose for as long as this Executive Order shall remain in effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proposed executive order also calls for a \u201ccomprehensive, mandatory buyback program\u201d and prohibits firearms from being moved to neighboring states except for the purpose of their destruction. The order directs that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/debunking-the-myth-of-americas-unique-gun-problem\/\" title=\"Debunking The Myth Of \u2018America\u2019s Unique Gun Problem\u2019\">gun buyback program<\/a> will be administered \u201cat minimum by each sheriff\u2019s office in an unarmed capacity but may include other unarmed government offices and entities as appropriate and necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The order also calls for establishing a \u201cGovernor\u2019s Expert Gun Violence Disaster Response Committee\u201d which will oversee the gun buyback program and come up with penalties for the continued possession, transport, or use of a firearm, which \u201cmay include confiscation of real property or other assets, or criminal citations and fees and fines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The executive order is written to last for 30 days unless Polis decides to extend it further.<\/p>\n<h3>Activists Speak Out<\/h3>\n<p>Activist Saira Rao, a former Democratic congressional candidate who helped organize the Here 4 The Kids sit-in, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpr.org\/2023\/06\/02\/here-4-the-kids-colorado-sit-in-gun-violence\/\">told<\/a> Colorado Public Radio she doesn\u2019t believe the group\u2019s proposed executive order would survive a legal challenge and would likely require action through the constitutional amendment process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis obviously flies in the face of the Constitution\u2014of the Second Amendment,\u201d she said. \u201cWe would like to see the 28th Amendment repealing the Second Amendment. So yes, we are not morons. We are very well aware that this is unconstitutional, and this is how change happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Polis\u2019s Response<\/h2>\n<p>Polis rejected the proposed executive order in a statement shared by his office on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese individuals\u2019 calls to improve safety and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-votes-to-pass-background-checks-act-of-2021\/\" title=\"House votes to pass Background Checks Act of 2021\">prevent gun violence<\/a> through their specific requests for an executive order banning all guns would simply be unconstitutional,\u201d Polis\u2019 office said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s office said they had met with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/protesters-push-for-colorado-governor-to-sign-executive-order-banning-all-guns-impose-mandatory-buyback\/\" title=\"Protesters demand Colorado Governor to ban all guns and enforce mandatory buyback.\">gun control protest organizers prior<\/a> to their sit-in and expressed their concerns about the proposed executive order.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun control activists in Denver are urging Gov. Jared Polis to impose a 30-day ban on all firearms in Colorado. Here 4 The Kids, the group behind the move, staged a sit-in at the state capitol to push for the ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":1944602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[7008,16523,6024,4368,4574,4173,4204,3986,4007],"class_list":["post-1944601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-ban","tag-buyback","tag-colorado","tag-demand","tag-enforce","tag-governor","tag-guns","tag-mandatory","tag-protesters"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}