BB gun trouble in CO

[Plinker1962]

Here's a story that absolutely blows my mind. A resident of Grand Junction, CO applies for a BB gun permit to shoot pesky Eurasion dove. In Grand Junction, it is illegal to discharge a BB gun within city limits without a permit. Now this guy has been flagged by that city's law enforcement and possibly on the terrorist watch list all because he applied for a BB gun permit. Oh heck, read it yourselves.

Police department targets local resident after applying for a BB gun permit | The Daily Caller

 

[Ethang]

Where in the hell have we gone as a country that you have to ask permission to buy a BB gun?

 

[arjay]

Many towns have made discharging a BB gun illegal.I was surprised to hear it too.

 

[finesse_r]

A glimpse of our future

I can see it now. Skip ahead 10 years in the future and this will be the headline.

12-year-old boy given life sentence without parole for smuggling an illegal high capacity repeating assault BB gun into CO, when his family relocated to CO. Prosecutors opening remarks made it clear the boy’s and his parents’ ignorance of the law was no excuse, and the state of CO choosing to try the boy as an adult was fully justified for such a heinous and threatening act. Local liberal celebrate the incarceration of yet another felon.

This is certainly the direction in which we are allowing the country to move.

 

[the ringo kid]

Here's a story that absolutely blows my mind. A resident of Grand Junction, CO applies for a BB gun permit to shoot pesky Eurasion dove. In Grand Junction, it is illegal to discharge a BB gun within city limits without a permit. Now this guy has been flagged by that city's law enforcement and possibly on the terrorist watch list all because he applied for a BB gun permit. Oh heck, read it yourselves.

Police department targets local resident after applying for a BB gun permit | The Daily Caller

This = Morons in control. When I was a kid-yeah-we knew it was illegal to fire BB Guns in Town--but nobody gave a damn. My Dads fence was a testament to our ""disobeying the laws"" as we used to nail plastic toy soldiers on the fence-then proceed to shoot them to bits. End result was that eventually there were more BBs and Pellets in said fence--than there was of actual wood making up the fence.

 

[30-30remchester]

It is a sad that the state I was born and raised in has become "California East". We have a problem with people moving here to be in a rural lifestyle, then immediately try to change their new town and state into an exact copy of the hell hole they left. Our remote mountain town was insulated from this for many years, but within the last 5 years a massive influx of bicycle riders, artists, trail hikers, and animal lovers have arrived. Enough so, that they now run the town council, and are closing down many existing roads so they can hike "unmolested". There was for many years an old adage "Colorado is, what the west was". No longer can this be said. Maybe our new motto should read, "Colorado wants to be, what California is". We weep like a loved one who is sitting at the beside of their dying relative.

 

[Faulkner]

I bettcha I can guess what's next on their agenda . . . .

 

[mkk41]

WOW!

A lot of cities/towns/townships have local ordinances against discharging BB guns or air rifles , but ya can still walking into almost any department , hardware or sporting goods store in PA and buy a Daisy or Crossman with no more than a ID check to see that the buyer is over 18.

 

[Lee Barner]

I would start watching for black helicopters with BB gun detectors on them now that you're on "their" list. lee
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[Fishslayer]

It is a sad that the state I was born and raised in has become "California East". We have a problem with people moving here to be in a rural lifestyle, then immediately try to change their new town and state into an exact copy of the hell hole they left. Our remote mountain town was insulated from this for many years, but within the last 5 years a massive influx of bicycle riders, artists, trail hikers, and animal lovers have arrived. Enough so, that they now run the town council, and are closing down many existing roads so they can hike "unmolested". There was for many years an old adage "Colorado is, what the west was". No longer can this be said. Maybe our new motto should read, "Colorado wants to be, what California is". We weep like a loved one who is sitting at the beside of their dying relative.

On another forum I belong to a number of Texas residents have said this is exactly the way Texas is heading and that people outside of Austin are in deep denial. Shame. Texas is on the short list of my relocation states.

Be interesting to see how the CO recall elections go. From what I've read the antis are in semi panic mode.

 

[rwsmith]

The gun grabbers

The gun grabbers will use every means available to label gun owners as terrorists. I read an article yesterday where one of our favorite anti-gun terrorists told Congress that they need to protect the Constitution by voting for gun controls. So now gun owners are anti-Constitution.

 

[30-30remchester]

On another forum I belong to a number of Texas residents have said this is exactly the way Texas is heading and that people outside of Austin are in deep denial. Shame. Texas is on the short list of my relocation states.

Be interesting to see how the CO recall elections go. From what I've read the antis are in semi panic mode.

Sadly it doesn't matter how the recalls will play out. Colorado as we knew it is forever gone. I hunted mountain goats 26 years ago and hiked above timberline on the 14,000' peaks for 9 days, never seeing another human. Everyday in the summer months, no fewer that 20 people are hiking above timberline on every peak, according to those who climb the fourteener's. Gone are the days you could pee off your front porch and shoot off your back porch. Hunting big game is a 10 day affair only and I can recount yearly many hunters telling of hunting in the timber and having mountain bikers and trail runners ruin their hunt. Though still legal, nobody I know will shoot out their back door anymore no matter how far from town we live. Myself and others have been reported to the law so many times we just gave it up. With Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs having enough voters, these 3 towns rule what the rest of the state does. With no recourse left, us old timers now sit at the bakery, drink coffee and tell stories to our grandkids about the days when Colorado was the west of legend.

 

[Mcwsky09]

Need to step it up!

Though still legal, nobody I know will shoot out their back door anymore no matter how far from town we live. Myself and others have been reported to the law so many times we just gave it up.

Sounds like you need to step it up to the point where the crybabies get cited for filing excessive spurious complaints.

Of course you could just push them into passing even more restrictive laws so they can be strut around about how they solved the "problem"

 

[30-30remchester]

Sounds like you need to step it up to the point where the crybabies get cited for filing excessive spurious complaints.

Of course you could just push them into passing even more restrictive laws so they can be strut around about how they solved the "problem"

When the sheriff shows up, no charges are filed, but we are asked to at least call them first as they must send an officer every time a report is made. How times have changed though. As kid in the country, we used to shoot barn swallows to sharpen our skills. Once the sheriff himself showed up. Said our nearest neighbor, a cranky old man, called him and told him we were raining pellets on his tin roof. Asked to shoot away from his direction only, before he left the sheriff took one of our guns and started shooting also. Come to think of it, I never knew that man to have or ever were a gun or uniform. Only stories for the grandkids now.

 

[BigBill]

I moved 15 minutes to the north where guns are accepted and a way of life. Most of my neighbors shoot. Where I did move from even BB guns were looked at OMG he has a gun call the police. I wish the people who move from New York city to my area would stay there. Thank God the bad winters here did drive some to move back.

Right now I need to register every large capacity magazine, every rifle with a muzzle brake or threaded muzzle, every rifle with a detachable magazine. We need to get a card to purchase rifles and ammo. I have my ccw and my ffl 03 federal collectors license how much more of an honest, lawful gun owner can I be? I enjoy shooting paper targets.

 

[joesmith357]

Many towns have made discharging a BB gun illegal.I was surprised to hear it too.

My town used to have an ordinance prohibiting it, as well as slingshots and other things. A few years ago, the state enacted a pre-emption law which made ordinances like this invalid and in fact illegal. My town rather than just repealing the ordinance, re-wrote it to remove references to firearms, but left in the slingshot and BB gun references. So it's not illegal to discharge a firearm, but it is to shoot a BB gun, paintball gun, air gun, etc. Absolutely ridiculous.

But I cant believe you have to have a permit to PURCHASE a BB gun, that's unreal.

 

[LVSteve]

Take it from somebody that knows, licensing and registration ARE the first steps towards confiscation.

 

[Steve in Vermont]

It is a sad that the state I was born and raised in has become "California East". We have a problem with people moving here to be in a rural lifestyle, then immediately try to change their new town and state into an exact copy of the hell hole they left. Our remote mountain town was insulated from this for many years, but within the last 5 years a massive influx of bicycle riders, artists, trail hikers, and animal lovers have arrived. Enough so, that they now run the town council, and are closing down many existing roads so they can hike "unmolested". There was for many years an old adage "Colorado is, what the west was". No longer can this be said. Maybe our new motto should read, "Colorado wants to be, what California is". We weep like a loved one who is sitting at the beside of their dying relative.

Urban parts of Vermont are headed in the same direction. Some of the ridiculous proposals, in our legislature this past year, came from these folks. The world is shifting under our feet.

 

[bluegrassarms]

I live in such a city of irony, at least a little bit of one.

In Lexington BB guns, air rifles of all kinds in fact, sling shots are illegal to buy, sell, trade if you are under 18. They can be fired if you are under 18 only with adult supervision. There are regs about where and how they can be discharged.

There are no regs on real guns, that's all preempted by state law so they have no regs, but there are regs on BB guns.

So no outright ban but they are regulated in ways that guns aren't. Been that way since I moved here many years ago,though it didn't stop me from shooting my bb guns as a kid.

 

[the ringo kid]

On another forum I belong to a number of Texas residents have said this is exactly the way Texas is heading and that people outside of Austin are in deep denial. Shame. Texas is on the short list of my relocation states.

Be interesting to see how the CO recall elections go. From what I've read the antis are in semi panic mode.

Travis County and where Houston is--seem to be the worst of the new lib spots. When Rick Perry was reelected the last time-56% of Travis County voted for bill White who once was Mayor of Houston I believe? and I heard he turned it (and seemed so while I lived there) into a cesspool of pc garbage. Im glad BW lost.

Anyway, its still a long way to go before Texas goes down the Colorado of Calif routes. The Gent who is running in Perry's place is Gregg Abbott-and he is most definitely pro-2nd Amendment, pro gun and pro NRA. In an interview with piers morgan-Abbott and Ted Nugent--tore him new holes where they dont belong.