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
Ah, finally enforcing some of the law on the books! Go get em, and no more new Gun Restrictive Laws for the Law Abiding, please!
Ok with me
Sounds to me like they are actually enforcing the law instead of coming up with 8 more!!!
Just some more crazy c**p since that muslim became President.
I was told this in PA about 5 yrs ago. No one believed me..!!!!
Told this by a gun shop owner where I was trying to buy a gun
Mixed emotions on this as, the system has too many flaws!!
This was before Obama Debbie.. Just saying ya fruit loop dingus..
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Really how many lawsuits will be filed because the background ck was screwed up?