"This is a very poorly thought-out, irrational law. And the shame of it is it's not going to stop one criminal from doing harm to anybody," said Paul Paradis, owner of Paradise Sales in Colorado Springs. Paradis said most of the magazines that will be banned soon have already been sold out at his store.
He'll still do the checks for customers who buy firearms at his store because it's figured into his business costs. But he said he'll turn away those who show up at his store for a background check to sell a gun to someone else. In addition for the actual cost of a check - about $10 - the law says gun shops can't charge a service fee of more than $10 for those private sales. Business owners say they can't afford to do that.
Those background checks currently cost stores $50 of processing work, said Richard Taylor, the manager at Aurora's Firing-Line.
"We'll lose money if we do at it $10," Taylor said.
Gun dealers are not mandated by law to do the checks on private sales, but it's the responsibility of a private seller to arrange the check through a dealer before transferring a firearm.
So, we've got one gun shop owner claiming to know the future and another flat-out lying about "$50 of processing work."
What do you think? Will the new Colorado laws stand up to all the resistance?
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