New gun buyer with DUI

[X-Rap]

DUI is like so many things that the gov. uses to generate income. When more money is needed the blood level is dropped. I think the avg 1st time is $10K for legal and fees maybe not counting the SR22 ins.
To many pigs at the trough to ever stop it.
Put limits at reasonable levels, heavy prosecution for over limit and repeat offenders like loss of lic. forever if repeat and prison for violation of driving while revoked.
There are people driving hopped up on meds or just plain tired that are a bigger threat than some guy drinking a few beers out fishing or after work.
A keycheck at bars with breathalizer would stop a bunch if coupled with some toothy laws.

 

[melikesguns]

Honestly, If you are irresponsible enough to get a DUI, you don't deserve, (nor need) a gun. You give up your rights as a citizen when you drove drunk, and endangered my family and I.

 

[Caliban]

Honestly, If you are irresponsible enough to get a DUI, you don't deserve, (nor need) a gun. You give up your rights as a citizen when you dove drunk, and endangered my family and I.

ah, you must be one of those people who was never young and never, ever did anything stupid.

 

[DCortez]

My two cents ... if he can't be trusted with a vehicle, or alcohol, the last thing he needs to concern himself with is carrying a firearm.

 

[expvideo]

ah, you must be one of those people who was never young and never, ever did anything stupid.

Like I said, if enough people do it, it's "ok".

 

[dogdollar]

If his record is clean otherwise, and it is his first offense, he should try for a non-abjudication. After a certain period of good behavior, and if he pays his fines, etc., it will be removed from his record.

 

[Redneck with a 40]

A DUI in Colorado is a traffic felony, so you're friend will be denied the purchase at a gun dealer. However, he could easily buy the gun FTF.

 

[expvideo]

A DUI in Colorado is a traffic felony, so you're friend will be denied the purchase at a gun dealer. However, he could easily buy the gun FTF.

Not legally.

 

[melikesguns]

ah, you must be one of those people who was never young and never, ever did anything stupid.

Yes, I did do some dumb things. Although the OP does not tell us his age.. Sorry, his "friends" age

 

[Caliban]

Like I said, if enough people do it, it's "ok".

i didn't say it was ok, in fact i explicitly said it was stupid...

 

[WardenWolf]

It depends on the state. Some states do not disqualify people for non-violent offenses such as DUI, even if they are otherwise considered felonies.

 

[coloradokevin]

A DUI in Colorado is a traffic felony, so you're friend will be denied the purchase at a gun dealer. However, he could easily buy the gun FTF.

No offense intended, sir, but that statement is completely and totally false. A DUI is very clearly a misdemeanor offense in CO, though felony charges may become applicable in rare instances with the addition other aggravating factors! Still, a simple DUI is never a felony in CO (aggravating factors might include: vehicular homicide, vehicular assault, DUI while HTO, etc).



I've added an exerpt from state law below. This is not the entire statute (which is long), but contains the first four lines of that statute:

"42-4-1301. Driving under the influence - driving while impaired - driving with excessive alcoholic content - definitions - penalties.

(1) (a) It is a misdemeanor for any person who is under the influence of alcohol or one or more drugs, or a combination of both alcohol and one or more drugs, to drive any vehicle in this state.

(b) It is a misdemeanor for any person who is impaired by alcohol or by one or more drugs, or by a combination of alcohol and one or more drugs, to drive any vehicle in this state.

(c) It is a misdemeanor for any person who is an habitual user of any controlled substance defined in section 12-22-303 (7), C.R.S., to drive any vehicle in this state. ..."



If you would like to see the entire text of the statute, click on the link:

http://www.michie.com/colorado/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=main-h.htm&cp=




It may be worth mentioning that if you also refer to CRS 42-2-206 (Driving After Revocation Prohibited) you will see the one notable instance in which an otherwise simple DUI may become a felony: A Habitual Traffic Offender driving DUI (however, this offense is charged when the person is already HTO):

" ... (b) (I) A person commits the crime of aggravated driving with a revoked license if he or she is found to be an habitual offender and thereafter operates a motor vehicle in this state while the revocation of the department prohibiting such operation is in effect and, as a part of the same criminal episode, also commits any of the following offenses:

(A) DUI or DUI per se;

(B) DWAI;

(C) Reckless driving, as described in section 42-4-1401;

(D) Eluding or attempting to elude a police officer, as described in section 42-4-1413;

(E) Violation of any of the requirements specified for accidents and accident reports in sections 42-4-1601 to 42-4-1606; or

(F) Vehicular eluding, as described in section 18-9-116.5, C.R.S.

(II) Aggravated driving with a revoked license is a class 6 felony, punishable as provided in section 18-1.3-401, C.R.S. ..."


Please excuse me if I sound at all argumentative in this post, as that is certainly not my intention. However, if we are going to keep a "Legal" section going on this forum, I feel that it is important to make sure that we provide factual information to other forum users. And, not unlike many other complex laws, there seems to be a lot of popular misinformation floating around about DUIs!

 

[expvideo]

It depends on the state. Some states do not disqualify people for non-violent offenses such as DUI, even if they are otherwise considered felonies.

Federal law dictates that felons can't own guns. So if they are felons, the state can't allow them to own guns, regardless of what the felony is.

 

[Art Eatman]

This has gone way off in wandering away from the OP.