Colorado Senate Democrats passed a bill Tuesday morning which would prohibit the purchase of firearms that have detachable magazines, except in very limited situations.

Democratic Senators. Marc Snyder, Tony Exum Sr. and Nick Hinrichsen, all of Pueblo and Colorado Springs, voted “no.”

Snyder and Exum have both asked to be removed from the list of co-sponsors.

Last week, Senate Bill 3 was the subject of a long debate and an extensive list of amendments.

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The bill prohibits the manufacture, distribution and transfer of semiautomatic weapons and classifies a device which increases the rate at which a semiautomatic weapon fires as a dangerous weapon. The primary sponsors of the bill are Sen. Tom Sullivan (D-Centennial) and Sen. Julie Gonzales (D-Denver).

The eight amendments added by Democrats included:

* Increase the penalty for selling, possessing or transferring high-capacity magazines from a class 2 misdemeanor up to a class 1 misdemeanor.

* Modifying the list of weapons that are not subject to the law;

* A long section (the amended was five pages) about safety education. The governor’s office is believed to support the amendment that exempts anyone who has completed a hunter safety course, basic firearms course and extended firearms course within five year of purchase. The 12 hour extended safety course is spread over two days and includes lessons on child safety, safe storage, handling semiautomatic guns and magazines, mental illness and firearms deaths, extreme risk protection orders and victim empathy.

This exception would require that anyone who wanted to purchase a firearm with an attached magazine, which is otherwise prohibited by the law, complete both basic and advanced firearms training. This training will earn you a certificate that you can take to any Colorado firearms dealer and they’ll be able to sell the otherwise prohibited gun.

Sullivan stated that the bill is mainly intended to enforce the 2013 legislation prohibiting magazines with high capacity. Critics have said that it goes beyond this, and some refer to it as de facto a ban on “assault weapons”.

The vote on Tuesday came after an announcement that Sen. Sonya Lewis, D-Longmont resigned as a co-sponsor of the bill following an ethics investigation. She was accused of “faking” a letter in response to the Ethics Committee.

The vote could be close if several Democrats oppose the bill. Five Democratic senators have expressed concern about the bill. This could lead to a vote of 17-17 without Jaquez.

Exum said to Colorado Politics that he wouldn’t vote for a law facing a governor’s veto.

Just before the vote Gonzales said that when looking at crime the firearms are the main cause of harm. She said that the bill exempts 40 of the most common hunting rifles as a means to respond to the hunting community.

“I am not a threat against the Second Amendment,” Sullivan stated. “It is the 45,000 people who die from gun violence each year. I reject the idea that our military members… need more weapons. Veterans have been killed by their own hand more than in any war the United States has fought since its inception. “You don’t want us to discuss that.”

Now the bill goes to House.