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
They still need probable cause to search/seize!
Petty BS.
If you cant get one, you cant get one. Just leave it at that.
Just stop breaking the law and there will be no issue. It’s cut and dry the law states you cannot buy one because your a Felon ( most likely ) so don’t get mad when you get caught doing something else illegal like trying to purchase a gun. This isn’t rocket science
Kind of like the time I got my car impounded because the ohio bmv put someone elses suspension under my name and I had to pay the $400 tow and impound and wait til the tow truck owner came back from vacation? That kind of state “misunderstanding”??
Lets send Diane Feinstein to Syria with her message.
Shall not be infringed, no mention of any exceptions to the constitutional law allowing the purchase of guns
Good, you fail then no legal guns. These people must be watched as they will go for the illegal guns.
The glitches need to be fixed for the fact that innocent people who have had no problems with the law are having the state police called on them! It’s not always the fact u have a record that’s says you are not allowed by law!!!
It’s not like it is that hard to purchase a gun anymore anyway, if not in places like Craigslist then there are simple ways like in your own neighborhood. I used to know where to get military grade weapons and tech and didn’t need a background check