A CNN analysis has determined that of the 37 Colorado counties whose commissions passed resolutions declaring themselves to be “Second Amendment Sanctuaries” following the passage of the state’s red flag law in 2019, law enforcement in 20 of those counties have used the law’s provisions to petition a court to seize the weapons, many of them by the sheriffs who had themselves – evidently symbolically – protested the law.
“If a gentleman pulls a rifle on my deputy and then comes and threatens to shoot up my courthouse and kill me, kill the judges, and kill the district attorney. I’ve got a problem with that person having a gun,” Dolores County, Colorado Sheriff Don Wilson said after seizing an assault rifle from a local maniac who had pointed it at a deputy, a change of tune from his bitching about the law after it was passed in 2019. “All it is is one person’s word against another,” said Wilson at the time, per CNN.