Littleton, CO Business Licensing & Operations: Secondhand Dealers (2026)

Littleton does not run a stand-alone licensing chapter for general secondhand or junk dealers the way it does for pawnbrokers under the firearms retailer chapter. Instead, Section 6-4-155 of the City Code imposes a narrower, weapons-specific record-keeping duty on every secondhand dealer, pawnbroker or other person engaged in the sale, rental or exchange of a weapon covered by the preceding sections of Chapter 4's weapons article. For each weapon purchased, sold, rented or exchanged at retail, the dealer must make a record at the time of the transaction in a book kept for that purpose, recording the name of the person the weapon was purchased from, sold to, or exchanged with; that person's age, physical description, occupation and residence address; the weapon's make, caliber, finish and serial number if it has one; the date of the transaction; and the name of the employee who handled it.

Subsection (B) requires that record book to be open at all times to inspection by any duly authorized Littleton police officer, with no advance notice requirement. The same chapter separately bars any secondhand dealer from displaying a handgun, revolver or other firearm with a barrel under twelve inches, or any illegal weapon, in a show window facing a street (Section 6-4-154(B)). A secondhand dealer who also happens to be a pawnbroker is additionally swept into the Chapter 24 firearms retailer license requirement, but a secondhand dealer that is not a pawnbroker faces only the Section 6-4-155 records duty, not a license.