How Boulder County screwed my friend out of ever owning firearms again.

[ben4372]

Its happening. Who said it was easier to rule criminals?

[rbeau30]

I haven't touched one off unintentionally but this thread should be a reminder that checking, and re-checking, and re-checking the chamber AGAIN is time well spent.

+1

can NEVER be too sure. I think I read a reply in here about dummy rounds. I own ZERO dummy rounds. IMHO Dummy rounds are a recipe for disaster and another way to complicate things.

[ray1970]

"K" sounds like a pretty irresponsible individual. He's lucky he didn't kill somebody. I fully support people like him being denied the right to own firearms.

[tmckay2]

certainly all of us feel bad for the guy, but honestly what happened, whether an accident or not, is extremely serious. accidental discharge that goes through the wall and could have easily killed a neighbor? thats some serious stuff. revocation of firearm ownership isn't all that drastic, even though it was an accident. lots of people have had accidents with all sorts of things and sadly the punishment is sometimes severe. i don't even keep guns loaded in my house for this very reason, meaning no round in the chamber. it doesn't take long to rack the slide and the risk isn't worth it in my opinion.

[KestrelBike]

1st step: go to neighbor's house "OMG WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO???"

[james_bond_007]

At this point, it seems you are using this site and its members for opinions (seems reasonable) and legal advice (not such a good idea, IMHO, to seek legal advice from a public forum, especially when only your version of the story, which is also an abbreviated, opinionated, and non-professional/civilian interpretation of the facts and statutes, 2nd and 3rd hand at that, is made available). In short, even though your intention was to describe this accurately, you have not presented all the "facts".

Before deciding on how to proceed, I'd look for another criminal attorney and get a 2nd opinion, regarding the current/future ability to possess and purchase firearms.
Asking the attorneys on this forum for a recommendation of a good criminal attorney they respect and trust (even if it would be themselves) would be a great benefit, IMHO.

Please don't interpret this as my thinking the attorney involved doesn't know what he's taking about.

It's pretty much what I'd do if my doctor told me I had cancer...I'd first "double check it" with another doctor or two.

[spqrzilla]

I certainly had no intention of offering legal advice.

[beast556]

+1 I'm gonna have to agree with ray on this. He could of killed some one because he got drunk and decided to finger fuck his guns. Its a hard lesson to learn but when you do dumb shit that can kill some one you have to pay the price.

"K" sounds like a pretty irresponsible individual. He's lucky he didn't kill somebody. I fully support people like him being denied the right to own firearms.

[rockhound]

hmmm, drinking and handling your weapon is just not wise, anyone who owns a firearm should know better that to handle a weapon after even one beer. put the gun down,

In my opinion the DA was over zealous, but your friend brought this on himself. living in an aprtment i think you would have an even greater responsibility.

[MED]

when i was a juvy, i got busted for shooting pdogs under reckless endangerment, but not the felony one in the people republic of boulder. First time dealing with the law...Took the deal with the da same thing as your buddy...Never again will i deal with crap of pleading and talking to the cops. It's call the lawyer for anything, and go into debt to pay off a fucking attorney...

This reminds me of my then seven year old son who fashioned a bow out of some sticks and was stalking prairie dogs in the field next to my old house. One of the neighbor's went off on him and called the police so he came home. There were several squad cars out there and a SWAT van. Fortunately, they didn't know where he went so we just hung out in the house and watched the show. People are really ridiculous sometimes.