Colorado § 18-12-501 - Definitions.
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§ 18-12-501. Definitions.
As used in this part 5, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Collection" means a trade, barter, or in-kind exchange for one or more firearms.
(2) "Gun collectors show" means an event or function that is sponsored to facilitate the purchase, sale, offer for sale, or collection of only curios or relics, as defined in 27 CFR 478.11, or antique firearms, as defined in 18 U.S.C. sec. 921 (a)(16), and not any other type of firearm. A gun collectors show may also include vendors that sell products that are not firearms.
(3) (a) "Gun show" means the entire premises provided for an event or function, including, but not limited to, parking areas for the event or function, except for adjacent street parking, that is sponsored to facilitate, in whole or in part, the purchase, sale, offer for sale, or collection of firearms at which:
(I) Twenty-five or more firearms are offered or publicly exhibited for sale, transfer, or exchange; or
(II) Not less than three gun show vendors publicly exhibit or sell, offer for sale, transfer, or exchange firearms.
(b) "Gun show" does not include a gun collectors show.
(4) "Gun show parking area" means the parking area that is on the same property as the gun show venue or that is adjacent to the venue and under control of the company that owns or operates the venue. "Gun show parking area" does not include adjacent street parking.
(5) "Gun show promoter" means a person who organizes or operates a gun show.
(6) (a) "Gun show vendor" means any person who publicly exhibits or sells, offers for sale, transfers, or exchanges any firearm at a gun show, regardless of whether the person arranges with a gun show promoter for a fixed location from which to publicly exhibit or sell, offer for sale, transfer, or exchange any firearm.
(b) "Gun show vendor" does not include a person who is not a federal firearms licensee who sells, offers for sale, or transfers a firearm to, or exchanges a firearm with, a gun show vendor who is a federal firearms licensee at a gun show, including transferring a firearm to a gun show vendor who is a federal firearms licensee for sale on consignment or to facilitate a private firearm transfer.
(7) "Local law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the gun show" means a town marshal's office, police department, or sheriff's office whose jurisdiction includes the area in which a gun show occurs.
(8) "State firearms dealer permit" means a state firearms dealer permit described in section 18-12-401.5.
Source: L. 2025: Entire part R&RE, (HB 25-1238), ch. 93, p. 417, § 2, effective January 1, 2026.
Editor's note: (1) Prior to its repeal and reenactment, this section was similar to former § 12-26.1-101 as it existed prior to 2018.
(2) Several provisions of this section are similar to several former provisions of § 18-12-506 as they existed prior to 2025. For a detailed comparison, see the comparative tables located in the back of the index.
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