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
This is retarded.
THEY FOUND ANOTHER EXCUSE TO HURRASE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT STAND UP FOR THE 2ND AMENDMENT!!! INSTEAD OF GOING AND FINDING KILLERS THAT OBAMA FREED!!! BY SO CALLED ACCIDENT!!!
If you cant buy a gun because of a failed background check, then there is no crime commited, $#%&!@* the naysayers i dont care what they say, besides theres other ways of obtaining firearms dumb asses
Not a place to move to or do business with–Let them die on the vine–Communist
ohhhhhhhh, is it the typical computer glitch O’bananaboatyslima is using for letting names out of generals, military personnel, navy seals … so that the mozlemzzz know whom to kill next ???? F** YOU OBAMA !!
no human should be not allowed to defend themselves
Vg Donna. Didn’t see that one coming!!! Lol
p**s on them get a friend who doesn’t have a record to buy yours for you
dont they have better things to due say go chase a bad guy
I DONT GIVE A DAM WHO THEY ARE ,OR WHO THEY THINK THEY ARE,..THIS IS PURE BULL$#%&!@*, AND IT SHOULD BE DUMPED ON THE POLICE DEPT.’S HEADS,..IF THERE IS ANY LEFT ,.DUMP IT AT 1600 PENN. AVE