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Via Guns
In a recent debate over a bill that would have repealed the new expanded background check mandate in Colorado, state law enforcement officials cited what at least one Republican is calling inflated statistics.
In February, Colorado Bureau of Investigation Director Ron Sloan testified before the Senate’s State, Veterans, and Military Affairs committee during debate on Senate Bill 14-094, the expanded-background-check repeal bill.
In his testimony, Sloan stated that 6,198 ‘private transfers’ had been screened by the CBI under the new law and that there was a “compelling public safety interest” in not repealing the expanded background check law that was passed in the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Consequently, the SB 14-094 was killed in the Committee by a 3-2 vote along party lines, with Democrats voting to kill the bill and Republicans voting to send it to the next stage in the legislative process.
However, while in front of the committee, Sloan did not disclose that the figures he quoted included 2,361 background checks done at gun shows and for persons transferring guns in from out of state Internet-based sales, both of which were required by law before the post-Sandy Hook expanded background check measure was implemented.
In actuality there were only 3,838 non-gun-show private background checks performed by CBI in the last half of 2013, according to the Associated Press which obtained this information in a release after business hours last Friday.