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
…OREGON IS NOT A PATRIOTIC STATE.WILL NEVER VISET….
80% lowers!!!! james maddison tactical!!!
buy privately and buy ALL as the cartels have an armament that is quite ridiculous.
Poor cop! LMMFAO
Since they’ve added several new lame causes for denial chanes are those denied already own guns. Walk into that b!+#!
Felons this and felons that a bunch of you sound like judgmental $#%&!@*tards! It’s funny no one believes in a second Chance until it’s their ass! Yes I am a convicted felon! I made one stupid $#%&!@*ing mistake when I was 16 years old just being a dumb ass kid and have to pay for it for the rest of my life now! It don’t matter to people though that I am 33 now and have never been in a single but of trouble before then or since then! $#%&!@* most of you judgmental $#%&!@*s would never even know if you weren’t told. But $#%&!@* as far as most are concerned I should have the mark of the beast and be forever out casted and not have any rights ever! What makes you so damn perfect? According to our oh so wonderful government 95% of people in this country have committed a felony some were just lucky and never got caught!
Who says the government needs to know what I own or if I own anything?
All you people who think felons shouldn’t own guns are part of the problem. If you’re a American, you have the right to keep and carry.
danny…so a pedophile murderer should have unfettered acess to guns?
If the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation can fowl up a simple background check so can any other state. I was wrongfully accused of being a felon because the complete information was not put in the computer. The F.B.I. came to my defense with the correct information. This faux pas cost me time and mental anguish. I acquired my permit and weapon after the error was corrected.