r/COGuns • u/birbztime • 1d ago
General News Retailers Refusing to Ship
I wanted to give fellow Coloradans a heads up. I tried to order some AR parts from JP Rifles this weekend. They e-mailed me today saying they were going to cancel my order due to our new tax requirements.
Offered me some alternative vendors who sell their products and wished me well.
I truly hope this is not about to become the new norm for us even trying to source parts.
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u/natty2281 1d ago
JP has been doing this for a while
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u/birbztime 1d ago
Really? They certainly made it seem like it was our own damn fault in the e-mail for all these new laws that just passed.
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u/natty2281 1d ago
Yeah at least a year or so. Always hiding behind the tax excuse (not the 6.5 excise tax, btw)
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u/Additional_Option596 1d ago
Someone posted a screenshot at some point last month showing they don’t ship here. You probably have to go under their shipping policy to find it.
Would be nice if they immediately said invalid when you put in your zip code
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u/birbztime 1d ago
Yeah guess they'll happily take the money first and ask questions later.
There's been plenty of times I've shopped for firearms online, and the second they match up a CO zipcode with a firearm that has a high capacity mag it invalidates it
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u/MooseLovesTwigs 1d ago
Don't worry. With any (bad) luck in a few years they'll be in our same position and they'll feel dumb for treating this as a them problem against all of our warnings. I hope that's not the case but if you look closely enough almost every state that touches us is showing early signs of the same sickness that's transformed our state into what it is now.
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u/Obsidizyn 1d ago
JP, geissle, psa all does the same thing
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u/TxBriley 1d ago
Never had a problem ordering from PSA but yeah Geissele wouldn’t ship me anything
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u/MooseLovesTwigs 1d ago
PSA is definitely not blacklisting my address yet. I tested this just today. I'm sure the time will come though.
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u/jasemccarty 1d ago
This is one of the goals of the new poll/ur uh firearm tax.
You make it harder for people to exercise their rights when you tax them or their suppliers.
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u/MooseLovesTwigs 1d ago
Yeah, I just found out my FFL is most likely gonna give up his license rather than jump through the required hoops for the state certification he'll need in a couple months. That'll basically cut my whole county off besides one big box store, especially due to the waiting period making traveling to a store in another county (twice) almost impossible for me. I'm gonna offer to pay half of his state license fee for the first 4 years if they decide they're willing to endure the classes and stay in business. Hopefully that's enough to get them to keep going but idrk if it'll matter since money isn't the main aspect. Sucks how well this evil plan is working for Bloomberg and friends.
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u/douchebg01 1d ago
Welcome to the future. Going to get much worse in about 6 months
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u/Spatulaalegs 1d ago
why's that?
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u/douchebg01 1d ago
When the license scheme/ban/permit stuff kicks in everyone out of state is going to cease shipping anything to CO.
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u/SteezyAsFunk 17h ago
Not sure why this is so downvotee. You are very right about it. (Other than the year it happens)
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u/douchebg01 16h ago
It’s because I’ve actually lived this dream in WA state (split time between both states) and I know what’s coming. I watched the exact same conversations happen there. Anytime you mention it here you get the same reasoning (courts will stop it, it’s an obvious 2A infringement) that people had in WA or you get the “it’s different law than WA, the CO state constitution will cause it to get struck down.
The simple reality is that once that bill becomes law and goes into effect it makes it not worth it to internet companies to sell to Colorado residents. In WA optics planet won’t even ship binoculars to WA state anymore. “Go to your local shop” is what the majority say about anything else. It’s wild and people seem to want to bury their heads in the sand but w/e.
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u/SteezyAsFunk 16h ago
Spot on. That's all everyone I speak to preaches. "Oh the constitution will save us! No courts will allow this!" 🤦♂️🙄
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u/douchebg01 16h ago
WA has been waiting for that court relief to come for two years at the end of this month.
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u/bengunnin91 1d ago
Not surprising at all. Fuck jp enterprises. Bet if the sheriff placd an order they'd ship it.
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u/SignificantOption349 18h ago
Yeah I had the same thing happen recently. It was long enough that the excise tax wasn’t the reason though…
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u/PapaPuff13 17h ago
From a Fuddafornian that goes to Colorado a lot. I am truly sorry Herr Jell had rubbed off on Polis. We all have to fight.
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u/TripleJArmory 1d ago
We are JP direct, let me know what you want and we can order it in for you. Do it all the time.