Oregon state troopers are now being called on people who fail the background checks to purchase a firearm.
Officials state that it’s a crime for people who can’t buy a gun to attempt to purchase one. Up until now they have let the law sit on the books, but that’s changing as they have begun enforcement.
Oregon state troopers are now being dispatched when a person tries to buy a gun but fails the background check. It comes after critics complained that state laws that ban certain categories of people from buying guns were not being enforced.
It’s a crime for convicted felons or people with certain known mental health problems to attempt to buy a gun. But until recently not much happened in Oregon if someone tried to skirt the law. That’s now changing, according to an internal state police training bulletin obtained by the gun rights group, Oregon Firearms Federation. Its director, Kevin Starrett, says he’s talked to two upstanding gun buyers who were questioned by state troopers after being inexplicably rejected by the background check computer.
“What they’re doing is a ridiculous waste of time, but they’re doing something and we’ve got to do something, and this is something so this is what we’re going to do,” said Starrett.
Source: nwpr.org
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It’s illegal to lie on the background check.
I’ve been delayed for no reason and denied for no reason, the appeal process is a huge pain in the a$$ and what Criminal is going to buy a firearm and fill out a 4473 in the 1st place?
It is a stupid law anyway
This happens in Texas too. It’s how they catch the felons.
Are you can go to Mexico and buy the guns the US Government send there with no back ground check-bring them home and until you use them no one knows you have them which makes a lot more sense !
Welcome to the USA where we are very close to becoming a dictatorship the 4th riech is coming at the hand of Obama and the Rothschild’s.
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT….were in big trouble really soon my friend
but what if someone takes a background check and doesn’t realize they’re disqualified until it comes back, even if they answered all the questions truthfully?
and no one seems to be doing anything to stop this. IMPEACH OBAMA, FOR A GOOD START
they should rid themselves of illegals instead….they’ll probably round-up terrorists there to set wildfires in the process
State troopers are just Drones. Nothing about defenders of Freedom about them,,. too me there like the S S.