background check when buying guns?

[Circuits]

I thought one of the perks to getting your CCW was no more background checks when you purchase a weapon?? at the tanner this weekend my brother bought a ruger vaquero and still had to do the background check??

To bypass the NICS check, the state's CCW permit needs to be "NICS qualified", which Colorado's is not, since "permanent brady" went into effect in 1999 or so. Prior to that, a Colorado CCW permit was accepted in lieu of the background check.

There have been a few attempts to get the state to make its CCW NICS qualified, but so far the dims have killed it, and/or Ol' Ritter has vetoed it.