Colorado Firearm Barrel Restriction and Registry Bill (SB26-043) is officially dead
I will be doing a full write up of where all the gun bills landed this session as today is the last day of the 2026 legislative session (thank God) but for now here's the update on one of the worst bills we were fighting...
SB26-043 is officially dead.
The bill sat on House Third Reading and Final Passage, the final vote needed, for three weeks. Rather than bringing it up for a final vote, House leadership laid it over day after day, moving it to the next day’s calendar until the final day of session.
Today, lawmakers once again "laid the bill over" instead of voting on it, effectively killing the legislation as the 2026 session ends at midnight.
SB26-043 was part of a rapidly spreading strategy of regulating everything around firearms piece by piece: parts, precursor materials, transfers, dealer mandates, paper trails. The bill would have forced barrel sales through dealers, created intrusive record keeping and registry requirements, and used vague “readily convertible” language that stretched far beyond complete barrels themselves.
It also put FFLs in an impossible position by prohibiting barrel sales to banned persons without giving dealers any legal way to verify who was prohibited, potentially killing barrel sales in Colorado altogether.
The death of this bill is a win for this year.
Nobody should assume it is gone for good. Bills like this always come back the next session. But for now we're in the clear until next January.
See what other gun related bills passed and died in Colorado: https://wethesecondcolorado.com/2026-co-firearm-legislation/
Read more about the SB26-043: https://wethesecondcolorado.com/colorados-gun-barrel-bill-could-halt-barrel-sales-statewide/