CSSA v. Colorado Firearms Dealer Licensing Scheme
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Summary
This entry tracks a sixth matter identified in the project's initial scope: a Colorado State Shooting Association challenge to the state's firearms-dealer licensing scheme, created by HB24-1353 (2024) and administered by the Department of Revenue's Firearms Dealer Division. An extensive docket search (see notes) did not turn up a lawsuit distinct from Colorado Firearms, Ammunition and Accessories, LLC v. Polis (tracked separately on this site), which itself challenges HB26-1126's expansion of that same dealer-licensing and record-keeping regime. This page is a placeholder pending confirmation of whether a separate dealer-licensing suit exists. No docket has been linked and no events are logged. See the linked case for the closely related, confirmed litigation.
Challenge target
The state firearms-dealer licensing scheme created by HB24-1353 (2024), administered by the Colorado Department of Revenue's Firearms Dealer Division
Parties
- Colorado State Shooting Association — plaintiff (per project scope)
Docket timeline
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Notes
Master spec (docs/phase1-spec.md §4, item 6) describes this as "CSSA challenge to the dealer licensing scheme (SB24-131-era)" — SB24-131 is actually Colorado's 2024 sensitive-spaces carry law, not a dealer-licensing bill; the real 2024 dealer-permit statute is HB24-1353, which created the Firearms Dealer Division within the Dept. of Revenue. Searched CourtListener (api/rest/v4/search, type=r, court=cod) for "firearms dealer license Colorado Polis", "SB24-131", "gun dealer licensing act Colorado unconstitutional", and general web search for a 2024-era CSSA suit against HB24-1353 specifically. The only litigation found that challenges this dealer-licensing regime is Colorado Firearms, Ammunition and Accessories, LLC v. Polis (D. Colo. 1:26-cv-02639, filed 2026-06-12), which challenges HB26-1126 — the 2026 amendment that expanded HB24-1353's record-keeping and inspection provisions — and already names CSSA as a plaintiff. Per the INVARIANT against guessing docket IDs, courtlistener_docket_id is left null here rather than reusing that docket under a second case entry. David should confirm whether this sixth matter (a) is the same suit as the HB26-1126 case above and should be merged/removed, or (b) is a genuinely separate 2024-era suit this search missed (e.g. filed in state court, or not yet indexed) and needs its own citation.