July 1st 2013 Changes to the Trading Post

[Mazin]

You know what's funny is some members act like this was here to be debated, it's not.

If you have an issue over the staff trying to cover all liabilities as well as keeping the entire site (not just the TP) open then as the end all be all of COAR said "you know where the door is".

There has been a lot of talk to just end the TP and all the BS that's associated with it, frankly I think membership here would thin out tremendously. This site is more than the trade post and if you think by adding the prerequisite of having to list a FFL in your ad and to follow the letter of the law (no matter how much we feel its bs) is too hard to adhere too then please go and use the other online forums and sales sites.

The staff is working hard to protect this community and its Membership and that includes the people who are only here to use the TP and not contribute anything else of value here.


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[Musashi]

Understood
Thanks for doing everything you do guys. Let's keep the site legit and spend our energy fighting the good fight and not each other.

[opie011]

Understood.

Thanks guys (mods) for doing all that you do to keep this site running

[Great-Kazoo]

The up side of TP changes= Guns will be at FFL pricing , hopefully.

[ChrisC]

Understood
Thanks for doing everything you do guys. Let's keep the site legit and spend our energy fighting the good fight and not each other.

Agree

[StagLefty]

Gotta do what ya gotta do-thanks for protecting the site mods !

[Dingo]

But I don't want to lose the TP here, looks like we will lose the RMGO cologunmarket with these bills. Talk is that armslist may not be too keen on Colorado sales. This might be all we have left. We need to make sure we protect it so that a few idiots don't bring about its demise.

I'm in agreement here. It's going to suck monkey ass having to conduct thru an FFL, but at least it will return the pricing to manageable levels. (At least until the FFLs realize they have us in a vice-grip and follow human nature...) This is a privately-owned site, run by private citizens who have just as much to lose as us. Asking them to risk the legal liability for (how many board members do we have now? Several thousand?)'s unpredictable actions is not much different than the people who are ridiculing private individuals for not being the "one loud voice standing up to the oppressors." The govt is too big and indiscriminate about the morality of it's actions right now. The answer lies in at least attempting to change the makeup of said govt, at least locally.

I still think the TP is a valuable resource even if the FFL requirement is in place. I conduct 90% of my firearms related purchasing/selling on here, for the simple reason that I know most of the main members. The pricing is usually better, there's all kinds of random stuff that is impossible to find elsewhere, and we're cutting out a lot of unscrupulous FFLs/vendors (CTD anyone?) by transacting on here. It's got to be galling for the site owners to have to comply with this ridiculous shit just as it is for us. Unfortunately, it's the law of the land, and this is a reasonable step to preserve a valuable firearms resource in CO. I for one am glad they're not pussing out and giving up on the TP entirely, like the "no compromise gun lobby" is.

[Jer]

Shit just got real, didn't it?

[Dingo]

Yeah, but none of this surprised me or caught me off guard. I've been preparing in my own little way since Aurora, and by end of January had everything I needed. Just disappointed.

[tmleadr03]

Good lord when will people learn. The mods here are temperamental pissy individuals. Piss in their cornflakes, even if you do it more politely then GoodBurbon, and you get your wee wee smack.

Their house, their rules. Don't like it? Too bad. Either live by the rules of the house you are in or go else where.




The other thing I learned in this thread is people do not understand what a Nazi is. Though I actually already knew that. Same with communist and socialist.

ETA: I for one will no longer be mentioning in print anywhere what guns or mags or ammo I may or may not have. In point of fact I think I will now go sell all my guns or throw them away so as to not have the headache of these laws over me. Or any future law.