These type of suits are illegal. They do this all the time and typically end up in a judgement where their “victim” has to pay court fees. The lawyers involved need to be disbarred.
Also:
1. It’s not illegal to sell a long arm to someone with an out of state licence.
2. It’s not even illegal to buy that gun in Colorado or to have that gun in Colorado Springs.
3. The magazines would be technically illegal to buy in CO, but nothing in our law says people in other states can’t sell a magazine to someone with a CO drivers license. He could have even brought the magazines back to CO without fear of prosecution. The law is very weird and involves the police proving you bought the magazine after some date. There isn’t a good way for them to prove this and the number of prosecutions under our magazine law is still 0.
“In addition, a licensee may sell a rifle or shotgun to a person who is not a resident of the State where the licensee’s business premises is located in an over–the–counter transaction, provided the transaction complies with State law in the State where the licensee is located and in the State where the purchaser resides.
[18 U.S.C. 922(b)(3); 27 CFR 478.99(a)]”
You may not sell to someone from out of state unless it is legal for them to buy it in their home state. But the rifles are not banned in Colorado, only the mags are. They could have sold it to him with no mags.
But someone from California cannot come in and buy one.