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
Welcome to the state I call home and wish I could leave. All new meaning to the Left Coast. Thugs gone wild.
Sorry but just an excuse to take liberty with your rights.
Trying to turn law-abiders into law-breakers.
If you are law abiding then you won’t fail a back ground check. Do you want criminals to be able to get guns?
That is So Wrong !!
Read the book: “Synagogue of Satan” by Andrew Carrington Hitch$#%&!@*. The cattle have knowledge. Do your homework.
It’s a good thing! If someone is truly not responsible enough for a gun that is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJHAX7CK3zk
Well. Why did they fail? Criminals? Mental illness??
so many new laws some are totally stupid, some are against our constitution our rights, we must realize that if we give up our rights, our world will change and not the kind of change any of us can live with. We must hold on to our rights our guns and our freedom, it is so important to our families and friends to live in a free world, where all people are free to love God and country.