Colorado Gang Bust Undermines Case for State’s Proposed Semi-Auto Ban

Colorado is looking to enact a massive semi-auto ban. In particular, semi-automatic firearms with detachable magazines, which is most of them. It might not cover all such as most semi-auto shotguns and some rifles, but most defensive firearms use detachable magazines these days.

I guess people there just don’t really need guns at all, right?

Well, that’s not remotely true. I wrote back in August about an armed gang essentially taking over an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado.

That was downplayed, and, frankly, it shouldn’t have.

From Sarah Anderson at our sister site, PJ Media:

Remember back in the fall when ABC did its best to make Donald Trump and JD Vance out to be liars when they said the Venezuelan gang members were causing problems in Colorado? It started during the presidential debate and continued on ABC’s “This Week” when Martha Raddatz tried to school Vance on the topic, leading to his viral, “Martha, do you hear yourself?” moment. 

Well, it’s looking more and more like ABC was wrong and the president and vice president were right. (Shocking, I know.)  

On Sunday, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Rocky Mountain Field Division, along with help from Denver offices for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) busted up an “invite-only” makeshift nightclub and arrested dozens of members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The Denver Gazette reports that there were 49 people inside, and 41 of them were found to be in the United States illegally. 

“We have been investigating them for several months,” DEA Rocky Mountain Field Division Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Pullen told the Gazette. “This morning, we executed a federal search warrant on this call.” The “nightclub” was located in a vacant property in Adams County, which is a suburb of Denver and home to parts of the city of Aurora. The raid took place just after 5 a.m. The organizers of the party going on inside had allegedly been advertising on social media. 

In addition to rounding up gang members, officials seized guns, drugs, and cash, including crack and pink cocaine, which is a combination of “psychoactive substances, such as cocaine, ketamine, and methamphetamines.” 

Now, this is the same gang that took over that apartment. It’s the same people, and Colorado’s answer to this level of danger is to make it harder for people to defend themselves, apparently.

By banning semi-autos with detachable magazines, lawmakers there are seemingly interested in making it so you’re relegated to firearms that aren’t as easy to reload should you find yourself having to deal with a lot of bad guys, like…say…a gang of them.

Obviously, that’s without getting into the constitutional arguments involved. This is just pointing out the absolute stupidity.

These are illegal immigrants. They crossed the border illegally and are engaging in illegal activities here in the United States. Does anyone really think they’ll obey Colorado’s gun control laws?

They won’t. We all know it. Even the lawmakers who want this know it.

They simply don’t care.

So good, decent people may well face their apartment building being taken over by an armed gang and be forced to capitulate to their every demand, if not just be killed for sport, all because they lack the firepower necessary to defend themselves.