54 Colorado sheriffs suing to block two new state gun control
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Images  Posted: 05/16/2013 Last Updated: 208 days ago  DENVER -
A group of 54 Colorado sheriffs say recently passed state gun
control laws are unconstitutional and they plan to file a
federal lawsuit Friday to block them.  At a Friday news
conference in Denver, sheriffs, disabled individuals and a
woman's group said two new laws requiring universal background
checks for gun buyers and restricting the size of high-capacity
magazines violate the Second Amendment right to bear arms and
the Fourteenth Amendment's prohibition against states denying
individuals due process and equal protection under the law.  The
laws were passed earlier this year in response to mass shootings
at an Aurora movie theater and at a school in Connecticut.  The
right-leaning Independence Institute says 54 of the Colorado's
62 sheriffs are joining the lawsuit, along with other gun-rights
activists who oppose the