Colorado Now Looking to Restrict Gun Barrels

There are a lot of gun control laws in the country that deal with the purchase of firearms. The idea being, at least as sold to the American public, that these laws will keep guns out of the hands of criminals.

Despite that, we’ve seen a lot of so-called gun violence in my lifetime, especially since the Brady Bill became law and ackground checks on all gun dealer sales became mandatory.

In short, the laws don’t work as advertised.

Still, there’s zero chance of them being repealed, if for no other reason than there’s nothing so permanent as a government program.

Despite the failure of background checks to stop criminals from getting guns, a lot of people think gun components should get similar treatment. In fact, a bill in Colorado wants to require people to get new gun barrels from licensed dealers.

A new bill introduced in Colorado would require gun barrel purchases to be made in-person at a firearm dealer.

Senate Bill 26-043, which was introduced last week, would also ban the possession of any firearm barrels “with the intent to sell or transfer” and add criminal penalties for violation.

“It is unlawful for a person to sell or transfer a firearm barrel, unless the person selling or transferring the firearm barrel is a federally licensed firearm dealer and the sale or transfer occurs in person,” reads the legislation, which was introduced by state Senator Tom Sullivan, D-Centennial, and Representatives Meg Froelich, D-Englewood, and Kyle Brown, D-Louisville.

The bill is similar to legislation signed into law by California Governor Gavin Newsom last year.

“A firearm barrel … shall not be sold or transferred unless that transaction is completed in person by a firearms dealer licensed,” states the California law, which requires a background check for barrel purchases.

Proponents of the California legislation argued it will “help curb the proliferation of ghost guns.”

That’s about the dumbest argument imaginable, because so-called ghost guns don’t actually need proper gun barrels to work.

The P.A. Luty submachine gun uses a pipe from a hardware store. There are 3D printed designs that create a barrel as part of the build. The barrel, while needing to be present, doesn’t have to be machined for a traditionally made firearm.

Plus, there are so many barrels in circulation right now that the genie is out of the bottle already, and none of them are serialized, so you’re unlikely to ever trace where they came from originally, making straw buys from other states trivial to get away with.

In other words, this won’t do what proponents claim it will do. California’s version isn’t doing what they said it would do either, but it’s still too early to definitively prove that.

But it will make it harder for those who want to comply with the law to get barrel upgrades, replace shot-out barrels, or anything of the like. The only consistent thing about gun control is how it negatively impacts the law-abiding who simply want to go about their lives. Those are the people being impacted, and anyone with half a brain knows it.

Then again, if they had half a brain, they wouldn’t be gun grabbers in the first place.

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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