Three Days Too Late: How Colorado Endangers Citizens by Withholding Self-Defense

Colorado’s three-day waiting period is built on a presumption of guilt. Author Alicia Garcia explains that it assumes that every law-abiding buyer who passes a background check is a potential threat to themselves or others, and so the state imposes a blanket delay before a constitutionally protected firearm may be delivered. Garcia notes that premise is not only offensive to due process and common sense, it fails the Supreme Court’s Bruen test and the 10th Circuit’s own fresh guidance.