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Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. 2024 ‘Gun Shows in Colorado.’ Gun Sales. San Francisco, CA: Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. 22 December

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Gun Shows in Colorado

In 2000, Coloradans voted in favor of a ballot initiative to require background checks at gun shows. As a result, all firearms transfers at gun shows must be processed by a licensed firearms dealer.

Prospective purchasers are subject to the same background check process that applies to retail firearms transfers and processing dealers must record the transfer and retain the records in the same manner as with retail transfers…

Firearms dealers may charge a fee of up to $10 for conducting the background check, and gun show promoters must prominently post a notice setting forth the requirement for a background check.These provisions do not apply to the transfer of antique firearms or curios or relics, as defined under federal law.

Colorado law defines a gun show as:

The entire premises provided for an event or function, including but not limited to parking areas for the event or function, that is sponsored to facilitate, in whole or in part, the purchase, sale, offer for sale, or collection of firearms at which: (a) twenty-five or more firearms are offered or exhibited for sale, transfer, or exchange; or (b) not less than three gun show vendors exhibit, sell, offer for sale, transfer, or exchange firearms.

Colorado now requires private sellers (sellers who are not federally licensed dealers) to have a background check conducted on a prospective purchaser when transferring any firearm, whether at gun shows or elsewhere…

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