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New CO laws cause buy back to be canceled.
Posted: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 19:16:38
by AlanM
Shades of "unintended consequences".
Gun buyback canceled because of new gun laws
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Organizers have canceled a gun buyback at the request of Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle, who says Colorado's new gun laws would make it nearly impossible to comply.
Pelle says a strict law that went into effect July 1 requires buyers to go to a licensed firearms dealer and undergo a background check.
The computer systems are not portable and could not be used at the sheriff's compound where the buyback was planned next month.
The Boulder Daily Camera reports the group would have to find a licensed firearms dealer to hold the event and then pay the dealer for each transaction, which would be too expensive and too difficult. Together Colorado -- a group that bills itself as a nonpartisan multi-faith organization -- had planned the event.
Re: New CO laws cause buy back to be canceled.
Posted: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 19:27:19
by SHMIV
Hahahahaha.
Of course, were a Colorado FFL, I suppose that I would offer to do it, provided that I got to keep the guns.
Afterwards, I would have to redistribute them to the poor and needy.
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Re: New CO laws cause buy back to be canceled.
Posted: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 03:07:29
by MarcSpaz
Now that is funny.
Reminds me of when the state of NY needed to have an emergency session to amend code following a new gun ban that didn't exclude any law enforcement or professional services. All of the police and private security for the politicians were in violation for the law for weeks until the corrections were made. I didn't hear about any arrest though... go figure.
Re: New CO laws cause buy back to be canceled.
Posted: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 08:21:50
by OakRidgeStars
AlanM wrote:The computer systems are not portable and could not be used at the sheriff's compound where the buyback was planned next month.
What is it, the 1980's? Laptops and Verizon's 4G data is good enough for the Va State Police, why not in CO?
Re: New CO laws cause buy back to be canceled.
Posted: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 08:41:03
by SpanishInquisition
Hahahahahaha! Legislated Dumbassery for the win! err.. I mean for the lose! Hahahahahahahaha!
Re: New CO laws cause buy back to be canceled.
Posted: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:34:47
by thekinetic
Bahahahahahaha!
Re: New CO laws cause buy back to be canceled.
Posted: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:56:47
by RoundHouse
I love it when these knee jerk, poorly thought out movements and laws conflict with each other. This needs to happen more often. The Sheriff's department obviously didn't push too hard to overcome the technological barriers ha ha