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The Colorado Supreme Court will decide whether the state's large-capacity magazine ban is constitutional.
The state's highest court announced Monday that it will review Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and National Association for Gun Rights' legal challenge of the controversial 2013 law that banned the sale and possession of rifle and pistol magazines with more than 15 cartridges.
People who already owned large-capacity magazines when the law went into effect could keep but not sell them.
Lower courts ruled the law is constitutional. The state supreme court would have the last word on the law unless it rules in favor of the state of Colorado and the plaintiffs successfully appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners argues the magazine limit violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The law was one of three gun control measures the Colorado legislature and then-Gov. John Hickenlooper put in place in 2013 after the Aurora movie theater shooting and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Both shooters used high-capacity magazines. https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2019/04/23/colorado-supreme-court-rule-large-capacity-magazine-ban/3550210002/
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