“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

We used to have a friend who owned a gun store; he would work the buy-back lines, offering to pay more than the buy-back program would. He often did very well - and so did the sellers. The police didn't like it, but he was scrupulous about obeying the law [back when you could tell what it meant!]

I wonder if the author of this new law even considered a police officer disarming a criminal perpetrating gun violence without first having researched the thugs background? It seems to me, progressives fail to recognize reality and their good ideas often have unintended consequences; sometimes horribly. A quote that best describes the progressive ideology is “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

I don't like the buy-back programs that destroy perfectly good guns.

There are some that I have seen that allow the guns to be resold by licensed dealers, and some of the profits are returned to the community.

The recalls in the article are encouraging!

Hahaha. I guess the progressive anti 2nd Amendment guys shot themselves in the foot with that one.

Bahahaha!

I call that democracy at its finest. It is not an easy task to recall 2 state senators.I'd say the people have spoken. I will wait to see who their replacements are. You go, Colorado. Good on you!

"Event organizers had planned to give gift cards or tickets to sporting events to people who turned in firearms."
I suspect this is the only way they can get people to see the Buffs play football now... by giving away tickets. ;)