MachIVshooter
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Beware the sweet smell of laundered scum of a bill that rises to the top, as the effluent below may not be seen, or smelled and may be miles deep.
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That's how they garnered public support to ram this excrement through here in CO. Yeah, sure, it sounds like a good idea that can't hurt the law abiding on the surface. But read a little bit, and you quickly discover that if you lend a handgun to your sister for self defense (legal no-BCG transfer for immediate family) and your brother-in-law picks it up, now he and you are in violation. Exchange shotguns or rifles with your buddy while hunting? Perfectly legal. Your buddy goes home a day before you with your gun and you still have his? Felony.
I just got home from visiting the widow of a good friend of mine, and she is planning to sell some of his guns to long time family friends in the near future. She is 75 years old, and does not keep up with the minutia of this nonsense; she had no idea that this was going on. When he died, private transfers were perfectly legal. But if our governor signs this law, they won't be, and she likely would have violated the law by doing something that had been perfectly legal her entire life. She is a grandmother, a good person, and a very law abiding citizen, but under the letter of the law, she would be guilty of a class VI felony for each transfer.
These laws are intended to snare law abiding people who either haven't kept up with the recent changes, did not take the time to read the law line-by-line, or did read it but didn't fully comprehend it as an attorney would. Even our own legislators were unclear on the specific exemptions and what would or would not constitute a transfer.