Southeast Colorado Representative Ty Winter stood Friday on the House Floor as the legislature considered the third and final reading of House Bill 25-1238, the Gun Show Requirement Bill to say he was there to speak because his district sent him to do that.
Winter exclaimed that he and his colleagues in the House are passing laws on top of laws.
"Just because we can pass laws in this building, doesn't mean sometimes that we should."
The legislation drawing so many lawmakers to stand and speak on the bill would require new demands of gun show promoters to have a security plan and submit it to the local law enforcement agency where the show is happening. It also requires the following according to the text of the bill:
Have liability insurance for the gun show;
Implement security measures at the gun show;
Prohibit persons under 21 years of age from entering the gun show unless the person is accompanied by a parent, grandparent, or guardian;
For each customer who leaves with a purchased firearm, verify that each firearm sold at a gun show is delivered in compliance with the required the 3-day waiting period; and
Post certain notices at the gun show.
One of the sponsors on the bill, Democrat Sean Camacho questioned colleagues who had mentioned they felt the bill violated second amendment rights. Camacho read aloud the second amendment, and asked. "Where does it say gun show in the second amendment? It doesn't."
Representative Winter said the men who created the documents for this country never expected the kind of division we are seeing today.
"The founding fathers never expected super majorities or majorities this big. Never. When they created this country. I don't think they expected us to be so far apart on values that both ends keep screaming and can't find the middle to fix things for people."
Winter came to fix things, he told the House, further recounting that he has Veterans who go to gun shows and aren't able to afford to equip the show with cameras and the parking lot to have cameras. Growing frustrated, Winter admitted that most of the parking lots in Southeast Colorado aren't even paved.
The Representative from Las Animas County finished by saying there aren't any giant firearm stores like Dicks or Scheels in district 47, just smaller gun stores run by local people.
"Is that the plan, to make gun shows so hard to have that we don't have the gun show? To make the guns so hard to get, we can't get the gun. To make it so expensive to get, it goes back to what my colleague said, we're creating classes here."
The bill passed on third reading by a vote of 34-30 and now will go to the Senate.
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