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
And when ISIS shows up what do we do have our heads cut off?
That’s Oregon for you…dumb
when are the stupid politicians realize that they are never going to keep guns away from criminals? they are going to get them anyway! If ya take all the guns away in the world they will fashion on something else to kill ya with
Liberal State so we can not expect much intelligent thinking.
If you have been convicted of a felony it is a felony to attempt to buy a firearm! Federal law.
i see history repeating it self.
more evidence of the police state we live in.
So stupid,like cops and robbers are the only ones armed,i don’t thank so! I did not join the Marine Corp. so people,police and criminals are the only people who can protect themselves,Americans should always have the right to protect one’s family and self !
Unless there is an open warrent, leave them alone. So, if you don’t pass the background check, you lose the right to defend yourself?
If a man has paid his dues to society, doesn’t he has the right to protect himself from an oppressing government?