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
Photo: Curtis Perry
Soooo….trying to purchase a gun legally can get you in trouble….but getting them illegally will keep the cops from going after you unless you commit a crime, which in that case you won’t care about the purchasing a gun charge as it will be mundane…
$#%&!@* is getting scary around here.
Does this mean they think you are a criminal?
of course they think this !!what idiots
American Patriot says:
“The constitution already made this clear! The RIGHT of the people to keep and bear arms shall NOT BE INFRINGED, and government was NEVER granted the authority to decide on OUR rights, or who may exercise them!
Gun control ‘laws’ are ILLEGAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL! I wish those of you who always agreee with government would take a little time and READ the bill of rights, as well as the entire constitution. Nowhere in that document does it grant such powers to ANY government, or agency!
These are OUR rights, they are not granted by government, and are NOT permissions, they are RIGHTS granted ONLY to the people by the constitution, and the constitution is the SUPREME LAW of this nation.
If government can take away our rights, then the bill of rights should have been written as the bill of privileges, but it was NOT!”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/oregon-police-called-people-fail-background-checks/comment-page-3/#comment-320165
When the Nazis come, simply gun them down and take their guns!
Are you kidding me? Hey there are some people coming over the border that haven’t had background checks, could be terrorists.
That’s bull$#%&!@*? A law that can I can penalized you for taking a voluntary exam trying to follow the innumerable amount of loss on the federal registry most Americans should receive a visit from the feds for getting up in the morning and farting are wiping their butts with their left hand perhaps. What part of shall not be infringed don’t you understand we are now in a complete and total tyranny people also this week in Oregon State Police are doing no refusal blood draw checkpoints where they can forcibly invade your body with a needle that could potentially have life-threatening consequences . This all being done without one shred of evidence or proof. My state is going to $#%&!@*!
what happens when you fail the one for president?
Shall not infringe on the peoples right to bear arms. Period. Get an atty.