Posted on 07/23/2013 5:57:14 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
Organizers have canceled a gun buyback at the request of Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle, who said Colorado's new gun laws would make the Aug. 4 event nearly impossible to stage.
"The bottom line is what we anticipated doing would still be legal -- but procedurally we can't follow through with it at this time," Pelle said Tuesday.
A stricter law that went into effect July 1 requires buyers to go to a licensed firearms dealer and undergo a background check. The InstaCheck systems used in the checks are not mobile, which means they couldn't be used at the sheriff's compound where the buyback was planned.
"It's not a portable system," Pelle said. "It can't be done at the site."
Essentially, for the event to work, Pelle said the group would have to find a licensed firearms dealer to host the event and then pay the dealer per transaction, "which becomes very unproductive," he said.
Together Colorado -- a group that bills itself as a nonpartisan multi-faith organization -- had planned the event.
In an e-mail announcing the cancellation, Sheila Dierks said: "Sheriff Pelle has stood strong for this event, has done tremendous work to make it happen and he is as disappointed as we are."
Event organizers had planned to give gift cards or tickets to sporting events to people who turned in firearms. Students raised nearly $8,000 to purchase the incentives.
The idea was to collect guns and then immediately hand them over to the Sheriff's Office for destruction. Some of the remnants of the destroyed firearms would then be passed along to Boulder-area metalworking artist Jessica Adams to use for a sculpture aimed at creating gun violence awareness.
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Gee, that’s too bad.
If you want to get a liberal to either shut up or foam at the mouth, simply point two principles that they hate and can’t comprehend.
The principle of the Slippery Slope
The principle of Unintended Consequences
Seriously pi$$es them off.
Dang! I have a couple of worthless wallhangers in Creed that I would like to have turned in for some cash to buy something that works.
An Unintended Consequences BTT.
Personally I like wallhangers. Wouldn’t give the lefties any satisfaction of turning in anything.
I’ve actually been in Creede. Spent a week at Soward Ranch at least ten years ago. That’s some rugged country heading up past the mine. Hope it escaped the recent fires there.
John Ross bump.
Leftists are unintended consequences. They spurt out at the most inopportune times and in the most unpleasant fashion.
So I assume that Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle is one of the few Sheriffs that support the new State law? If so, what an idiot! He needs to find a good security job he can do where he doesn’t have to think much.
The sheriff is a fool who needs recalled.
This particular law is extraordinarily badly written. Looks like it was written by the uneducated Amish reps who are always elected from the ghetto districts.
Among other things, there are no exemptions for police officers or military personnel. Also, the way it is written it essentially prohibits “buybacks” for all practical purposes.
It also applies exclusively to “persons” throughout in its language, but fails to define persons. So on the surface, it would appear not to apply to organizations. And speaking of definitions, there are none at all in the law. None. For example, they refer to firearms, but don’t define them.
As an aside, it looks like pretty much everybody in the state is ignoring the law as the Denver Post reported only 171 private checks were done in the first week for the entire state. Law is pretty much unenforceable anyway. Almost all of the sheriffs said they won’t enforce any of these new laws. And enforcement is almost impossible anyway as it would be very difficult to prove how you came into a possession of a particular firearm. If enforced at all it will simply be used to persecute George Zimmermans.
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