Tallyman
Member
In the year 2000 a senator from Arizona came to Colorado to promote new restrictive firearms legislation.
Why? We didn't elect him to represent us. But he came anyway!
Senator McCain championed the LIBERAL's proposed Colorado State gun show background check law. This law (ARTICLE 26.1 BACKGROUND CHECKS - GUN SHOWS) was voted on and passed in the November 2000 Colorado election because Arizona Senator McCain misled the people of Colorado about what that legislation was really about.
We were told that private sales background checks at gun shows were needed to reduce and prevent gun crimes. The fee would be ONLY $10 for an honest gun buyer to exercise his/her "privilege" to submit to a background check each time he bought a firearm at a gun show.
What statute makes it legal for the state to charge a person a fee or tax to exercise his/her Constitutional right to purchase a firearm? What is next? A fee to vote? A fee to write letters to our senators and congressmen? A fee to exercise one's right to go to church?
What Senator McCain didn't tell us was that a "gun show" was defined as 3 or more people trading guns. Three hunting buddies in a duck blind or deer camp discussing the trade of a shotgun or rifle constitute a "gun show".
Where do you find a licensed gun dealer in a duck blind to do a background check?
What he also didn't tell us was that a gun collector who wanted to purchase 3 guns from 3 different private sellers at a gun show, would have to submit to (and pay $30 for) 3 different background checks on that same day. If a person passes a background check at 10:00 AM, how could he possibly commit a crime, be tried and convicted before he purchases another gun at 11:00 AM and again at 2:00 PM?
I have asked licensed dealers at gun shows to consolidate my purchases into one transaction with one background check. While the dealers were agreeable, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) turned down this request and required a separate background check for each firearm purchased, even when the transactions were within minutes of each other.
Last year CBI made a "ruling" that if a private seller agrees to sell a firearm to a private buyer at a gun show, the seller must deliver the firearm to a licensed dealer who will record the firearm and the seller's name and address in his log book. The dealer will retain possession of the firearm while he completes a background check on the buyer (+ $10.00 fee). If the buyer fails the background check, the dealer must now perform a background check on the SELLER, requiring him to complete a Federal Firearms Transfer Form and charging him a $10.00 transaction fee so that he can get his own firearm back! If the seller fails the background check his firearm will be confiscated.
Were these harassing procedures and redundant expenses the original intent of the background check law or is CBI making their own "rules" to generate background check "statistics" to justify their operating budget? And - why are we not allowing Colorado firearms dealers direct access to the FBI for background checks as is done in most other states - and for which we taxpayers are already funding?
On January 8, 2008 President Bush signed into law H.R. 2640, prohibiting the FBI from charging a "user fee" for background checks. Yet, in Colorado we are still charged a "user fee" for the privilege of exercising our Constitutional right to purchase a firearm.
Procedures need to be established for the state to fund background checks at gun shows without charging buyers a fee. Criminals have created the circumstances, which led to the background check law, so why not pass legislation that requires convicted criminals to fund the background check program?
After many years as a dedicated Republican, I recently re-registered as a "non-affiliated" voter. Many Colorado Republicans (and former Republicans) feel as I do. McCain is NOT our choice for the Republican presidential candidate and I cannot, in good conscience, consider voting for him in the next election. He has already demonstrated that he has little regard for our Constitutional rights.
This is a prime example of what happens when a gun law passes and law enforcement authorities are given the power to administer and interpret it. Colorado gun purchasers are being charged fees to exercise their Constitutional right to purchase firearms at gun shows and the politicians will use the Colorado law as an example to promote gun show background checks on a national level.
Right now I have four choices when I enter the voting booth in November. I can vote for the Republican or Democrat candidate, write in my name or not vote at all.
At this moment President (ME) is sounding pretty good.
McCain is NO friend of Colorado Sportsmen and won't be a friend of American gun owners if he is elected president.
20 Year Military Veteran
NRA Life Member
Why? We didn't elect him to represent us. But he came anyway!
Senator McCain championed the LIBERAL's proposed Colorado State gun show background check law. This law (ARTICLE 26.1 BACKGROUND CHECKS - GUN SHOWS) was voted on and passed in the November 2000 Colorado election because Arizona Senator McCain misled the people of Colorado about what that legislation was really about.
We were told that private sales background checks at gun shows were needed to reduce and prevent gun crimes. The fee would be ONLY $10 for an honest gun buyer to exercise his/her "privilege" to submit to a background check each time he bought a firearm at a gun show.
What statute makes it legal for the state to charge a person a fee or tax to exercise his/her Constitutional right to purchase a firearm? What is next? A fee to vote? A fee to write letters to our senators and congressmen? A fee to exercise one's right to go to church?
What Senator McCain didn't tell us was that a "gun show" was defined as 3 or more people trading guns. Three hunting buddies in a duck blind or deer camp discussing the trade of a shotgun or rifle constitute a "gun show".
Where do you find a licensed gun dealer in a duck blind to do a background check?
What he also didn't tell us was that a gun collector who wanted to purchase 3 guns from 3 different private sellers at a gun show, would have to submit to (and pay $30 for) 3 different background checks on that same day. If a person passes a background check at 10:00 AM, how could he possibly commit a crime, be tried and convicted before he purchases another gun at 11:00 AM and again at 2:00 PM?
I have asked licensed dealers at gun shows to consolidate my purchases into one transaction with one background check. While the dealers were agreeable, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) turned down this request and required a separate background check for each firearm purchased, even when the transactions were within minutes of each other.
Last year CBI made a "ruling" that if a private seller agrees to sell a firearm to a private buyer at a gun show, the seller must deliver the firearm to a licensed dealer who will record the firearm and the seller's name and address in his log book. The dealer will retain possession of the firearm while he completes a background check on the buyer (+ $10.00 fee). If the buyer fails the background check, the dealer must now perform a background check on the SELLER, requiring him to complete a Federal Firearms Transfer Form and charging him a $10.00 transaction fee so that he can get his own firearm back! If the seller fails the background check his firearm will be confiscated.
Were these harassing procedures and redundant expenses the original intent of the background check law or is CBI making their own "rules" to generate background check "statistics" to justify their operating budget? And - why are we not allowing Colorado firearms dealers direct access to the FBI for background checks as is done in most other states - and for which we taxpayers are already funding?
On January 8, 2008 President Bush signed into law H.R. 2640, prohibiting the FBI from charging a "user fee" for background checks. Yet, in Colorado we are still charged a "user fee" for the privilege of exercising our Constitutional right to purchase a firearm.
Procedures need to be established for the state to fund background checks at gun shows without charging buyers a fee. Criminals have created the circumstances, which led to the background check law, so why not pass legislation that requires convicted criminals to fund the background check program?
After many years as a dedicated Republican, I recently re-registered as a "non-affiliated" voter. Many Colorado Republicans (and former Republicans) feel as I do. McCain is NOT our choice for the Republican presidential candidate and I cannot, in good conscience, consider voting for him in the next election. He has already demonstrated that he has little regard for our Constitutional rights.
This is a prime example of what happens when a gun law passes and law enforcement authorities are given the power to administer and interpret it. Colorado gun purchasers are being charged fees to exercise their Constitutional right to purchase firearms at gun shows and the politicians will use the Colorado law as an example to promote gun show background checks on a national level.
Right now I have four choices when I enter the voting booth in November. I can vote for the Republican or Democrat candidate, write in my name or not vote at all.
At this moment President (ME) is sounding pretty good.
McCain is NO friend of Colorado Sportsmen and won't be a friend of American gun owners if he is elected president.
20 Year Military Veteran
NRA Life Member
