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
Let’s see how far this gets.
About time. This is a federal offense and Eric Holder will NOT prosecute them.
Don’t break the Law!!!
hope they don’t have wrong information
If they know they’ll fail the background check, then they wouldn’t try. I find it unfair to punish people who may not even be aware that they are attempting to break the law. With the reasons a citizen can’t buy a fire arm becoming more and more general, soon people will be failing background checks for littering.
I’m in that boat so I know and have known that it is a federal crime for a felon to own or purchasing firearms so I would have thought everybody called the cops when that took place. Not that I’m tire Lee agree I’m a three-time felon but never have I had a violent charge so legally I am NOT able to protect myself with a firearm against violent offenders that have them
Oregon police are some of the most corrupt in our nation.
felon with a gun law thrown out of luisiana by supreme court, it is unonstitutional. There are no ifs ands or buts in the seconammendment!!!!
Insane!
Gestapo !!