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
I try like hell to follow the law and all the myriad of regulations put on us by the politicians and bureaucrats, but I do not see how they can pervert the constitution as well as our god given right to self protection and limit our rights to firearm possession, especially for non violent felonies such as drug possession. Never done drugs and never been so much as charged with a felony but this makes no sense to me.
that radar gun is illegally obstructing VISION. If a device is not DOT /SAE or permitted it is illegal to mount anything to the windshield, or in and about obstructing VISION, ticket thy selves douche bags cops are clueless, and go about telling others how to live, while they break the RULES constantly.
why do they have a YELLOW stripe running down the doors, yellow? Hmmmmmm
This is BS. They could be denied because they just purchased another. None of that’s a crime. If it’s Felons they should arrest them.
A felonis not going to buy a legal gun.He will buy i on the street with the serial number filed off.I can’t believe these stupid liberal democrats really believe that what they are doing is not a waste of police time.
Just like Nazi Germany did in the 1930’s.
The Oregon Police are a bunch of overpaid underworked jerks. Anything to harass the public. Why do we pay these idiots to harass us in the first place. They are suppose to serve and protect us not harass us. Paying them $50,000 a year plus to set along side the road and write ticket is a total waste of money, They are the 2nd highest paid police in this country.
so wrong they are doing it to get all firearms out of the population so families cannot take care of there family hunt for food protect there homes and live
No bueno
Nics screwed up mine sent ATF