WHEREAS: The U.S. and Colorado Constitutions guarantee the right to keep and bear arms, which means nothing without ammunition; and

WHEREAS: Washington, D.C. animal-rights lobbyists petitioned the Commission to outlaw even POSSESSING a firearm and lead ammunition while "attempting to take wildlife," a ban on nearly every round in Colorado gun safes; and

WHEREAS: Prairie dogs cripple livestock and carry plague, so Coloradans shoot them year-round across millions of acres, which now lets any warden charge a rancher with a .22 on his own land with "attempting to take wildlife"; and

WHEREAS: A second animal-rights petition would close EVERY acre of federal and state land to prairie dog shooting: one bans the bullet, the other the target.

THEREFORE: As a Coloradan and Second Amendment supporter, I demand the Commission DENY both petitions outright and refuse ANY rulemaking on either subject. And since the petitioners themselves say a partial ban is "not enough," I expect each of you to reject EVERY phase-in, pilot, "voluntary" transition, or public-land-only "compromise."