Don’t Think Colorado’s Gun Barrel Restrictions will Stay in Colorado

As things currently stand, the tide is largely against gun grabbers in much of the country. More than half of the states have some form of permitless carry, the Department of Justice is going after at least some local and state governments over their anti-gun measures, and Congress just isn’t interested in passing gun control.

But today’s status quo is tomorrow’s ancient history.

Colorado’s idea of regulating gun barrel purchases as if they’re guns is stupid and problematic, to say the least. We all know it. However, let’s understand that bad ideas never stay in one place, and that’s kind of the point.

The stated justification is ghost guns. Colorado banned so-called ghost guns in 2023, but legislators say criminals are now 3D-printing frames and other components and purchasing legal metal barrels online to build untraceable firearms. The problem with that logic? By the bill sponsor’s own account, ghost guns account for approximately 3% or less of firearms recovered from Colorado crime scenes. A 3% problem is being used to justify 100% compliance burdens on law-abiding residents.

The Wyoming Loophole

Denver resident Keith Emerson told the committee what anyone with a map already knows: a criminal who wants a barrel can simply drive a couple of hours to Wyoming and buy one without any Colorado paperwork whatsoever. The bill creates zero barrier for anyone willing to cross a state line, while creating new criminal exposure for every honest Coloradan who doesn’t.

Anti-gunners’ answer to that argument, as always, is that Wyoming should be doing this too. It’s never the law that’s the problem — it’s everyone else’s freedom that needs to be curtailed.

And the powers behind this–not the lawmakers, but the anti-gun groups and those that bankroll them–will most definitely do what they can to make it so states like Wyoming have similar laws.

No, I don’t think Wyoming is going to turn anti-gun. That really doesn’t seem to be in the cards, all things considered, but they also don’t have to.

Look at the games being played in Virginia, where they’re trying to gerrymander out almost all Republican representation. Why? Because Texas redistricted? Gerrymandering has long been common in both red and blue states, so they can spare me the outrage. They never blink about the gerrymandering New York or California did to squeeze out Republican voices–read that as “pro-gun voices” for our purposes here–and so this outrage is just them being caught doing it and seeing someone else willing to play the same game.

They want illegal immigrants in blue cities, not being deported, because they get counted in the census, but can’t vote them out of office. All of this is to leverage the votes in Congress, and that will directly impact our right to keep and bear arms.

Even if your state will never pass such a restriction on things like barrels, an anti-gun Congress with an anti-gun president most definitely will. What’s worse, they’ll even find a few people in office as Republicans like Sen. John Cornyn or outgoing Rep. Tony Gonzales who will back their play and allow them to stamp it as “bipartisan.”

Gun control concepts are like a virus. They infect the host (a state) and destroy everything, only to burst out and start trying to infect every other organism they can find. 

It won’t stay in Colorado. 

It won’t stay in just anti-gun states.

At least, it won’t if we don’t fight like our rights depend on it, because they do.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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