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DECEMBER 2019 VOLUME 26, ISSUE 12
The Voice for Firearm Rights in the Pikes Peak Region
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A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. --Amendment II, US Constitution
The right of no person to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall be called to question; . . . --Article II, § 13, Colorado Constitution
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