Law shuts down gun buyback effort

A new Colorado law aimed at shutting down access to guns – by imposing an across-the-board requirement for background checks for all gun deals – has closed down a favorite tool of those opposing firearms rights – the gun buyback program.
The situation has been reported by the Denver Post, which said organizers canceled a planned buyback effort after Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said the event, set for Aug. 4, would be nearly impossible to do.

“Procedurally we can’t follow through at this time,” the sheriff told the newspaper, even though he said the effort would be legal.
Colorado’s government, controlled by Democrats in the state House, Senate and the governor’s office, over the last session rammed through a slew of new gun restrictions, regulations and requirements.
One of them demands that buyers go to a licensed firearms dealer and undergo a background check for even private sales.
But officials report the “InstaCheck” systems are not mobile.
So for each purchase in a buyback program, the “purchaser” would have been required to travel to a gun dealer for the check.
Pelle told the Post one solution would be for the group organizing the buyback – in this case a private group called “Together Colorado” – to find a licensed gun dealer willing to hold an event to buy back guns to be turned over to the sheriff’s office for destruction.
Authorities had said members of the organization would be required to pass a background check for each gun purchase.

The incident is just the latest wave to hit the state from the Democrats’ work this year.
WND previously reported that a spokesman who works with several programs that appear on the Outdoor Channel told a state lawmaker his company is pulling all production out of the state, because of the gun rules.
And WND previously reported management of the Boulder-based Magpul Industries warned Democrats the company would be closing its plant and moving out of the state if the laws, including the ban on all magazines capable of either holding or being modified to hold more than 15 rounds, were passed.
The company is in the process of following through on its promise to relocate and take several hundred jobs out of the state.
After Magpul’s announcement, Fort Collins-based HiViz Shooting systems announced it, too, would be moving to another state that respects the Second Amendment.
In announcing the move, HIvIZ president and CEO Philip Howe said the decision came down to maintaining a clear conscience regarding where it sends its tax revenue.
Media outlets have reported threats by sportsmen, including anglers and hunters, from other states who have said they intend to boycott Colorado.

Hunting and fishing brings in an estimated $1.8 billion a year for Colorado, with $186 million coming from out-of-state residents. Consequently, if even a relatively small percentage of sportsmen chose to follow through on the boycott, it could result in serious revenue losses for the state.

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