Colorado does not require firearms to be registered. Colorado prohibits a local government, including a law enforcement agency, from maintaining a list or other form of record or database of:

“(a) Persons who purchase or exchange firearms or who leave firearms for repair or sale on consignment; (b) Persons who transfer firearms, unless the persons are federally licensed firearms dealers; (c) The descriptions, including serial numbers, of firearms purchased, transferred, exchanged, or left for repair or sale on consignment.”¹

For information about the Colorado laws requiring gun dealers to maintain records of gun sales, see the page on the Retention of Sales Records in Colorado.

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1. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 29-11.7-102(1).[↩]