{"id":2442532,"date":"2019-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=303041"},"modified":"2019-04-09T08:35:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T14:35:59","slug":"clarifying-the-gun-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/clarifying-the-gun-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarifying the gun laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In response to Michael Levengood of Carbondale, the loophole you speak of does not exist (<a id=\"N0x2acff40N0x2cfa300:N0x2acff40N0x2bf6f70\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/killer-weapons-too-accessible\/\">\u201cKiller weapons too accessible,\u201d<\/a> letters, March 23, The Aspen Times).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Colorado requires private gun-sellers who are not federally licensed dealers to initiate a background check when transferring a firearm. Any unlicensed individual who seeks to transfer possession of a firearm to a prospective transferee must:<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">1. Require that a background check is conducted on the prospective transferee by a licensed gun dealer<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">2. Obtain approval of the transfer from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation following the background check request.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">There is a legal process for acquiring such a firearm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Your local gun store would be able to help you out with all the paperwork and approvals. Acquiring this firearm advertised in the paper, without a background check, is illegal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">James Gordon<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/clarifying-the-gun-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Michael Levengood of Carbondale, the loophole you speak of does not exist (\u201cKiller weapons too accessible,\u201d letters, March 23, The Aspen Times). Colorado requires private gun-sellers who are not federally licensed dealers to initiate a background check when transferring a firearm. Any unlicensed individual who seeks to transfer possession of a firearm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 04:20:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}