The wait begins-Colorado

[S&W Fan]

This state has changed so much in the almost 40 years I've lived here. Effective today, 10/1, we now have a 3 day waiting period on all purchases. It was bad enough when we had to use an ffl for ftf transactions now this.

I believe tomorrow, Monday, a legal challenge will be filed hopefully that will provide an injunction until a decision is made but it's still disheartening. I know 3 days isn't that big a deal and that many have it worse but there has been a deterioration of our freedoms as this state has become more left leaning every year. I've also heard from a couple of shops they're still waiting to find out how this will impact them providing the ftf transactions-possibly another rider to their insurance, separate storage areas just a couple. Sad, it used to be a great place. If I sell off any of my stuff that my sons aren't interested in I'll just put them on consignment at a store-those fees have risen greatly also, usually 15-25% of the selling price.

If my sons weren't here I'd leave but as I age (67 in 29 days lol) being close to them and my grandchildren become more important every day.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

The Californication of Colorado is nearing completion.

 

[smoothshooter]

Any chance of getting any of those family members to move out of the state with you before the family generational roots grow even deeper in CO?

 

[smoothshooter]

Socialism is addictive to the masses.
Trading freedoms for more goodies paid for by someone else is hard for people to resist.

 

[pharmer]

Colorado, great place to visit:

Although it does have "peculiarities":
Donkey race in Cripple Creek

Downtown (gone now)

And one street over

Joe

 

[otis24]

The Californication of Colorado is nearing completion.

One of the reasons my in-laws, both in their mid-70’s emigrated from there to live in South Dakota after a lifetime of being Colorado residents!

 

[S&W Fan]

Any chance of getting any of those family members to move out of the state with you before the family generational roots grow even deeper in CO?

My son with little ones will be calling it 20 with the Colorado Army National Guard in March and he has a great fire department job-firefighter/paramedic/fto and is being strongly encouraged to test for lieutenant after leaving the Guard. Plus his ex is here so there’s the joint custody thing-he won’t be leaving. My other son is a big time snowboarding freak on the weekends plus his wife is also a native so they’re not leaving.

I hope the challenge is successful but I have my doubts.

 

[smoothshooter]

Colorado, great place to visit:

Although it does have "peculiarities":
Donkey race in Cripple Creek

Downtown (gone now)

And one street over

Joe

What happened to the downtown?

 

[HeyJoe]

just for sake of argument even if you stipulate that waiting three days for your first firearm makes some kind of sense, which I dont agree with, how does it make any sense at all for any subsequent firearm purchases to have to wait 3 days, you already have a gun, so if you were going to do anything you could have done it already with your other gun or guns.

 

[S&W Fan]

^ exactly. It’s ludicrous.

 

[arjay]

Colorado, great place to visit:

Although it does have "peculiarities":
Donkey race in Cripple Creek

Downtown (gone now)

And one street over

Joe

It’s a very cool place,but it’s suffering from crowding,insane traffic and a rising crime rate.

 

[LostintheOzone]

Like it or not the west coast states are all blue now. The Rocky mountain states are following the same pattern as people migrate from the west coast inland. CO, NV, and AZ are all going to be blue in the future. The transition is already happening. You can't escape it.

Our waiting period is 10 days. We have a UBC and a 10 rd mag limit.

I just live with it because I'm too old to move.

I worked in Colorado Springs and Alamosa in the 70's. I loved it. I would live there now except it's changed.

 

[cougar015]

In Pennsylvania, we have an instant background check. After filling out the required paperwork, FFL places a call to an ATF agent and it normally takes 5-10 minutes to get approved. A 3 day waiting period used to be known as a cooling off period and was to prevent anyone from buying a gun during a fit of rage and using it in a bad way. Never made sense if I already had a gun(s).

 

[30-30remchester]

Having lived here most of my life, it is becoming a place for people to move to because they don't like where they live. Then try to change my home into the same place they left. The 3-day waiting period has made small gun shows obsolete. Nobody wants to travel to the small-town shows, buy a gun, go home and travel back 3 days later to get the gun. Plus, small dealers must find someone to hold onto the purchased firearm till the waiting period is over. Our little gun club put on one gun show a year. The proceeds paid our land lease, taxes, insurance and utility bills for the year. We just had our last ever show. After 50 years of attending gun shows, I most likely will never attend another.

 

[Rich Richardson]

I have a home in Colorado and a home in Arizona. My legal residence is Arizona. I’m 72 and hoping the state doesn’t turn blue before I turn blue and stiff.

 

[S&W Fan]

Forgot to mention that while “approved/denied/delayed” notification comes back in mere minutes the stupid law still requires three days before the buyer can come back to pick up the firearm. Won’t accomplish anything as we all know.

 

[ISCS Yoda]

If my sons weren't here I'd leave but as I age (67 in 29 days lol) being close to them and my grandchildren become more important every day.
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I easily made the opposite decision but, then again, the choice was New York versus Texas - not much of a choice. Same for Colorado, too.

 

[AJ]

This state has changed so much in the almost 40 years I've lived here. Effective today, 10/1, we now have a 3 day waiting period on all purchases. It was bad enough when we had to use an ffl for ftf transactions now this.

I believe tomorrow, Monday, a legal challenge will be filed hopefully that will provide an injunction until a decision is made but it's still disheartening. I know 3 days isn't that big a deal and that many have it worse but there has been a deterioration of our freedoms as this state has become more left leaning every year. I've also heard from a couple of shops they're still waiting to find out how this will impact them providing the ftf transactions-possibly another rider to their insurance, separate storage areas just a couple. Sad, it used to be a great place. If I sell off any of my stuff that my sons aren't interested in I'll just put them on consignment at a store-those fees have risen greatly also, usually 15-25% of the selling price.

If my sons weren't here I'd leave but as I age (67 in 29 days lol) being close to them and my grandchildren become more important every day.

The Californication of Colorado is nearing completion.

Thought that as I started reading the first post. Worried about the same here.

 

[serger]

Hopefully Dudley Brown and RMGO will light them up.

The bad thing about all this is, the clowns in office
enact this stuff and you have to fight them in court.
Then when they lose, they enact another batch of
stuff and you have to do it all over again.

Perhaps Greenies ought to remove qualified immunity
from government and elected officials. Then when
they pull this, sue the perps individually for denying
you your civil rights. After a couple are bankrupted
the rest will get with the program.

I'm going to have to read the law. Since I don't
live in CO any more whenever I go to Brighton
or the Junction to see relatives and buy firearms,
I have them sent to my local FFL. With a three day
wait I'm not doing that if it applies to me. I think a lot
of dealers are going to be using the online auction
houses more than they used to.

 

[dave1918a2]

I grew up here and migrated to Colorado in 1968 after My discharge. My parents were there then, so it was kind of going home. 52 years I spent there. The last few showed Me the direction of the State, so I packed up and moved back to SD. Glad I did. We have a great Governor, good 2A laws, and for Your snowboarder some really good skiing, great hunting, fishing and just plain sightseeing. Just leave the Colorado stuff behind if You move. Walk into the LGS, buy a gun, fill out the NEW 4473, plunk down Your CCW permit and walk out.