doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com A sad day...

Ed asked earlier why these small shops are all going out and I'm not close-enough to it to say, other than to relay what I've heard which is that Colorado has essentially instituted their own FFL system (that parallels the Feds), with significant licensing fees and even stricter regulatory requirements about gun and ammunition storage.

It has acted to increase operating costs (and liabilities!) to the point where it simply is no longer worth doing that type of business here.

I’ll say.

A while back I was in Denver and stopped at the Stapleton/Northfield BPS. The lights were on in the old gun room upstairs which had been vacant for years so I went up. No guns were to be found but plenty of evidence of our new Colorado ammo laws. The room was full of ammunition but you couldn’t pick any up. Everything was locked in glass display cases that were inside the lockable “gun” room which were, of course, inside the lockable store. Johnny Morris may be able to afford that kind of expensive compliance but small shops can’t. (Which I suspect was the real purpose of the new law anyway.)

It's the "death by a thousand cuts" argument made real. There's no question in my mind about what the intent of all of this is...

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In FWIW column, Mark still has lots of high-quality wood blanks left-over from the Bournebrook boxlocks we were building with AYA several years back...





Anybody have a need for some high-end French and Turkish walnut gunwood?

Maybe.....I just bought a bunk of nice Turkish, French is really nice to work when you can find it. I'm just getting ready to apply finish to a nice French piece that I used to restock a H&H single shot.

Others have filled in some blanks but haven't mentioned Colorado also now has universal background checks with a three-day waiting period. This means just about very gun sale/transfer in the state private or commercial including gun shows now has to have an FFL do a 4473 check. This is not only a PIA but it's also getting expensive due to the added hassles put of small shops for these checks. I'm now hearing of shops charging $150.00 or more to do the checks.

Another hassle is now every gun in a shop has to be taken off the display floor & locked in a safe or vault at night when the store is closed. Death by a thousand cuts it-is and was the intent of the single party rule in this state.

move to new Hampshire...open your shop in Portsmouth...catch the swells on their way too an from the north country grouse woods...

Better sell a lot of gons, ed. Housing looks pretty expensive there. There was a 500 sf condo for half a mill, but that’s probably the unit next to the hillbilly blasting Sweet Home Alabama all summer long.


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Or just stay in Denver and open a weed shop.

Only found these: https://coloradosun.com/2025/06/12/new-colorado-gun-laws-2025/
The particulars for the 3-day: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb23-1219
Apparently only one city has the gun shop restriction (since 2021): https://www.denverpost.com/2021/02/08/littleton-gun-store-safe-storage-theft/
And Colorado safe gun storage requirements: https://www.shouselaw.com/co/blog/colorado-gun-storage-laws/