{"id":2608808,"date":"2026-05-31T14:12:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lifes-about-to-get-more-complicated-for-gun-buyers-in-colorado\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T14:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:15:15","slug":"lifes-about-to-get-more-complicated-for-gun-buyers-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lifes-about-to-get-more-complicated-for-gun-buyers-in-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Life&#8217;s About to Get More Complicated for Gun Buyers in Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flifes-about-to-get-more-complicated-for-gun-buyers-in-colorado%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2608808&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Colorado is set to implement, starting in august, a more complex licensing process for purchasing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-democrats-want-to-take-their-states-anti-gun-law-spree-nationwide\/\" title=\"Virginia Democrats Want To Take Their State&#039;s Anti-Gun Law Spree Nationwide\">modern semiautomatic firearms<\/a> such as the AR-15. After Democratic Gov. Jared polis signed legislation in April 2025, anyone who wants to buy one of these guns must first obtain a firearms safety course eligibility card and then complete a firearms safety course within five years.  <\/p>\n<p>The law emerged from earlier proposals that would have imposed a broader \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban,but it was modified to avoid an outright ban.Colorado already has a separate ban on standard-capacity magazines holding more than 15 rounds, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >article notes ongoing legal battles involving<\/a> the state\u2019s firearms regulations.  <\/p>\n<p>The NRA, Firearms Policy Coalition, and some Second Amendment advocates argue the new requirements are burdensome and may be adopted by other states if higher courts invalidate outright <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-northern-neighbor-going-on-gun-grabbing-spree\/\" title=\"America&#039;s Northern Neighbor Going on Gun-Grabbing Spree\">modern semiautomatic firearm<\/a> bans.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Colorado gun owners will face a convoluted licensing scheme beginning in August to purchase some of America\u2019s most popular rifles.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2025, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis <a href=\"https:\/\/krdo.com\/news\/2025\/04\/10\/governor-polis-signs-bill-to-restrict-semiautomatic-weapons\/\">signed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/bills\/SB25-003\">legislation<\/a> that requires anyone wishing to buy a modern semiautomatic firearm, including the AR-15 rifle, to first receive a firearms safety course eligibility card, then to complete a firearms safety course within five years.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation passed after being changed from an outright ban on so-called \u201cassault weapons\u201d that passed in other Democratic-controlled states like California, New Jersey and Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis legislation is another in the list of policies I have worked on to develop evidence-based solutions and reduce gun violence of all types,\u201d Democratic state Sen. Tim Sullivan claimed in an April 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cohousedems.com\/news\/sb25-003-signed-into-law\">release<\/a>. \u201cThe people of Colorado have mandated that we do something about the public health crisis that is gun violence, so that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 152-page <a href=\"https:\/\/sbg.colorado.gov\/sites\/sbg\/files\/documents\/Specified%20Semiautomatic%20Firearms_Working%20Document_DRAFT_05.15.2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">draft<\/a> document featured hundreds of photos of modern semiautomatic firearms, some of which have been out of production for decades, as examples of the guns to be regulated under the law.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado passed a <a href=\"https:\/\/cbi.colorado.gov\/sites\/cbi\/files\/HB%2013-1224-Signed.pdf\">ban<\/a> on standard-capacity magazines holding more than 15 rounds of ammunition in 2013, months after a mass shooting in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater. The state has received high grades from Everytown and Giffords Law Center for its laws, while the Trump administration sued Denver over its outright ban on modern semiautomatic firearms and took the state to court over its magazine ban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout the country, progressive politicians like Governor Polis are doing everything they can to limit lawful citizens\u2019 access to their constitutional rights,\u201d John Commerford, NRA-ILA executive director, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cThe Polis permission slip is not about safety; it\u2019s about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-cant-be-pro-life-and-anti-law-and-order\/\" title=\"Pro-life requires law and order.\">punishing law-abiding citizens<\/a> with a lengthy and arduous training program chock full of anti-gun propaganda. While citizens who want to follow the law must jump through bureaucratic hoops to exercise their rights, criminals will continue to ignore these laws and wreak havoc on Colorado communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some pro-Second Amendment advocates suspect this legislation could be copied by other states if litigation on outright bans of modern semiautomatic firearms were invalidated on Second Amendment grounds by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suspect much like post-Bruen where all the states said, OK, we have to give carry permits to everyone, fine, we will, but here\u2019s a list of places you can\u2019t carry, which is everywhere, I suspect you\u2019ll see all the blue states implement this kind of stuff where they\u2019re gonna say you need a permit to purchase and some kind of training,\u201d Second Amendment Foundation Executive Director Adam Kraut told the DCNF. \u201cI suspect that\u2019ll be their fallback position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCount on it: the same depraved tyrants who built today\u2019s gun-control machine will keep evolving their schemes to preserve the police state they want us to live in. Colorado\u2019s new regime proves the point,\u201d the Firearms Policy Coalition said about the law. \u201cLiberty is a commitment, not a destination-and the FPC Grassroots Army will keep fighting until every one of these immoral laws is destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p><em>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter\u2019s byline and their DCNF affiliation. 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