Colorado mandates "background checks" for private firearms transfers, i.e., two people buying or selling or gifting a gun. No surprise the background check requires a fee, in addition to paperwork (including nonsensical questions on the background check form itself) and creeping government oversight.
There are exceptions (buried in the legislation, for example CRS 18-12-112(6)). One excludes "antique firearms." What is an antique firearm? Colorado incorporates the federal definition at 18 USC 921(a)(3) & (16), which is "any firearm ... manufactured in or before 1898" or replica thereof, and muzzleloaders.
Other exceptions include a gift between "immediate" family members, transfers relating to a will or trust, and various "temporary" transfers.
Failure to comply carries criminal and civil liability consequences (ironic since people who use guns to commit crimes tend not to care about such things).
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