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Senate State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
The Senate State, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee advanced Sen. Tom Sullivan's SB26-043, requiring firearm barrels to be sold in person through a federally licensed dealer, over a wall of opposition testimony and a party-line objection that the measure is unenforceable because barrels aren't serialized.
Key Actions
·Record Keeping & Regulation of Sale of Firearm BarrelPassed
Notable Quotes
“So as soon as the ranchers and the cowboys stop telling us all about what they do on a regular basis and how that got them here to the state Capitol. When they stop with all of that, then I'll stop talking about my son.”
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Votes
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (3)William Lindstedt, Tom Sullivan, Katie Wallace
No (2)Rod Pelton, Lynda Zamora Wilson
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Madam Chair, I had a prepared statement, but with the inundation of emails and voicemails to my office and text messaging, I wanted to share one of those, which is really kind of emblematic of the kinds of hatred and disgusting comments that show up. And now here at the General assembly, we have a new zoom process with our phones. So all of our voicemails are transcribed with AI. So they're all in there. All the cuss words have italicized in it. So I don't get those. You can hear those on the phone when you listen back to them. But this one here starts out with, hey, Tom Sullivan, Remove yourself from your political pulpit. Quit using your dead son as an overreach on gun control. You'll never eradicate the guns in America. Get it? And quit your BS Bill. You are taking illegal money, okay? So it's time for you to remove yourself before you go to prison. And she gives her name from Grand Junction. Again, not in my community. Not a member of a constituent of mine. Remove yourself free. Tina Peters. You guys are nothing but satanic evil mockeries of a really wonderful state.…
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