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 REALLY TAKING THINGS TOO DAM FAR,..IT WILL BACKFIRE, IN TIME,..IN TIME..
There is always a gun for everyone just gotta no where to look $#%&!@* the government they don’t care about anything but their own agenda we are Americans we have Civil Liberties We the people have the right to bear arms and if something happened I would rather fight with a felon than some tree hugging pacifist
All they are doing is making the underground market bigger. What a bunch of dopes
Give them a scare is what I say.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL…..PERIOD..TRAITORS
this picture is so true vince
They don’t wear brown shirts for nothing , sieg heil ! mein dumpkof !
I’m all done spending my money in Oregon state.
Wow. And I was thinking of moving there? NOT
so, if you are not aware of the glitches in the computer system, the rabid dogs are coming to get you???? bet me if you are one of the hapless victims, you won’t get a jury trial