From the Denver, Colorado CBS affiliate:
Popular Standard Shotgun Could Be Banned Under Proposed Bill
A popular hunting shotgun could be banned under one of the bills moving through the state Capitol.
A pump or semi-automatic shotgun is the gun most hunters in Colorado use. It's a gun state Sen. Greg Brophy, R-Wray, says could be banned under a bill that's already passed the House and Gov. John Hickenlooper says he'll sign.
"They're coming after the standard shotgun," Brophy told CBS4 Political Specialist Shaun Boyd.
The part in question:
Brophy points to a section of the bill that defines a high-capacity magazine as one capable of accepting or - that can be readily converted - to accept more than 15 rounds or eight shotgun shells.
"This is where shotgun shells go inside this tube here," Brophy showed Boyd, "You can screw this part off the top and screw on an extender to this tube to allow it to hold more than eight rounds. It is readily convertible, which by definition in the bill, makes the whole thing a high-capacity magazine."
I could see something like this on the East Coast or maybe Illinois but Colorado? A bit more:
"The law is specific as of July 1. You can keep it, but only if you maintain continuous possession of it," Brophy said. "If it breaks, you can't give to a gunsmith even to fix it. You can't hand it to your son to use. It's all now outlawed because of this 1224, the bill that Gov. Hickenlooper says he's going to sign - this is most extreme thing anybody's ever done related to firearms."
Yikes! Wonder if the governor will be elected next time around.
