Posted on 03/12/2021 10:14:03 AM PST by re_tail20
The Littleton City Council on Feb 2 enacted an unprecedented gun storage ordinance that requires both wholesale and retail firearms sellers, gunsmiths and pawnbrokers to obtain a “firearm retailer license” that claims to “mitigate the risks to the citizens of Littleton and the community at large by requiring certain safeguards to ensure that firearms do not illegally enter society.”
The licensing and storage requirements appear to be the first in Colorado and are rare in other states. At least one impacted Littleton business calls the burdensome new rules unworkable.
Littleton is a home rule municipality of roughly 44,000 residents that straddles Arapahoe, Douglas and Jefferson counties in the south Denver-metro area.
The City justifies this ordinance by claiming that “there have been a number of burglaries of businesses that sell firearms” leading to “a number of unlicensed firearms being on the streets” and that therefore they “present a health, welfare and safety threat to our citizens and the community at large.”
The City Council cited “smash and grab” burglaries that resulted in 144 guns being stolen from Littleton gun stores in the last four years. Statewide, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) reported 225 instances of loss or theft of firearms from federal firearms licensees between 2016 and 2019, the latest year data is available.
There are four gun retailers in Littleton; two pawn shops, Triple J Armory and gun range and Old Steel Historical Firearms.
Sweeping in scope
The ordinance defines what constitutes a safe storage container as a “gun cabinet or gun safe” and mandates specific design characteristics including the thickness of steel required, the design of the door and hinges and specific locking mechanism requirements. It also defines a “safe” in detail, and defines a “safe room” as a reinforced room having “one...
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Looks like they will be having a huge sale.
You can bear arms, but not keep them.
“Although we tax you for police services, because we fail utterly to protect against crime, we are obliging you all to spend money protecting yourselves, or you must go out of business. You still owe taxes for policing, though. Thanks for playing!!”
Gee whiz, I wonder if that would have stopped the Columbine High School perps (do I really need to indicate the sarc?)?
Although I have little faith in the Supreme Court, this stuff needs to get there.
I do understand that interpretation change, but as far as the First Amendment goes, the original language was clear — CONGRESS shall make no law. That, of course, expanded in the 19th century and the understanding is that GOVERNMENT shall make no law censoring the people. Fine.
The Second Amendment is far less ambiguous — SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. By anyone.
There is a whole lot of infringement going on, and if the Constitution means anything at all (I don’t think it does), then the Courts should step in. And if they don’t, well, I guess we know where we stand as far as “rule of law” goes.
“The City Council cited “smash and grab” burglaries that resulted in 144 guns being stolen from Littleton gun stores in the last four years. Statewide, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) reported 225 instances of loss or theft of firearms from federal firearms licensees between 2016 and 2019, the latest year data is available.”
What?
Am I reading this right?
Littleton says 144 weapons were stolen from FFLs in Littleton, and the ATF says statewide 225 thefts of firearms. That means a single town (Littleton) accounts for roughly 64% of all weapon thefts in the entire state?
The State is not only required to provide the weapons, ammunition, and training, the State is also required to provide the location for the training. Littleton needs to open up the police range to civilians - now.
And yes, that 105mm howitzer you and your buddies own can be stored in the Littleton town hall parking lot AT THEIR EXPENSE.
Probably filled with Californio refugees.
No word on whether violent criminals are rushing to comply.
Not just Colorado. Other states are passing oppressive gun storage laws. There is a bill in the works in Oregon which would hold a gun owner liable for any gun-related crimes committed by someone they sold a gun too for two years. And another would make the former owner liable for any gun-related crimes if a crook managed to steal a gun which was not locked up nor had a difficult to defeat gun lock.
They spent a year trying to prevent their opening.
It's been my favorite range since it opened.
There’s less there than meets the eye. Suppose a state has such good law enforcement and criminal control that only a single theft occurred in the entire state the entire year. Well, in that case, 100% of the thefts would be from a single store, and from that single event. But that’s a good thing - it means that the problem of thefts from FFLs is almost entirely licked, there just being the one single incident statewide.
Thanks. Makes sense.
Good time to have a steel fabrication shop in Littleton.
The incorporated part of Littleton is tiny compared to the unincorporated suburbs that surround it. I’d just move. Otherwise they will basically move every night and morning.
Ridiculous.
I guess the crooks will have to start stealing more guns from the cop cars as they have done.
Anybody have the numbers on those thefts?
Dis arm those who are a threat to your thinking and goals
Is this storage 24/7? How do they display and sell guns?
Or is it during closed hours?
Maybe stay open 24/7. With armed employees. Lots of them.
Probably cheaper than building a Ft Knox.
Yes, perhaps a moving sale? To just outside the town's jurisdictional limits.
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