Setback for Bloomburg's Gun Control Efforts
Dec 29, 2016 9:58:35 GMT -5
Post by Michael Downing on Dec 29, 2016 9:58:35 GMT -5
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Nevada AG Will Not Enforce New Law after FBI Declines Question 1 Background Checks
“[T]he FBI has refused to conduct background checks on transfers as required by Question 1, and Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt has confirmed that until the FBI changes their position, his office will not be enforcing the law that was set to be enacted just days from now,” Don Turner of the Nevada Firearms Coalition reported in a late Wednesday email alert.
“[T]he recent passage of the Nevada legislation regarding background checks for private sales cannot dictate how federal resources are applied,” Kimberly Del Greco of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division informed the Nevada Department of Public Safety in a Dec. 14 letter, meaning the FBI would not allow intermediaries to run background checks as required by the Act. Based on a resulting department clarification request to Laxalt on how to proceed, the attorney general concluded “citizens may not be prosecuted for their inability to comply with the Act unless and until the FBI changes its public position and agrees to conduct the background checks consistent with the Act.” (See correspondence here, posted by the Reno Gazette Journal.)
“We commend Attorney General Laxalt for his acknowledgement that this is a deeply flawed and unenforceable law,” Turner continued. “The Nevada Firearms Coalition and our PACs have been outspoken opponents from the beginning, and we thank Attorney General Laxalt for this significant win for the 2nd Amendment.”
This is both an astonishing development as well as a setback for the Michael Bloomberg/Everytown-spearheaded edict ending (“legal”) private transfers in the Silver State. It shows once again that those demanding more disarmament are so eager to impose new gun laws they don’t even check to make sure new infringements will be workable in light of existing ones.
Nevada AG Will Not Enforce New Law after FBI Declines Question 1 Background Checks
“[T]he FBI has refused to conduct background checks on transfers as required by Question 1, and Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt has confirmed that until the FBI changes their position, his office will not be enforcing the law that was set to be enacted just days from now,” Don Turner of the Nevada Firearms Coalition reported in a late Wednesday email alert.
“[T]he recent passage of the Nevada legislation regarding background checks for private sales cannot dictate how federal resources are applied,” Kimberly Del Greco of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division informed the Nevada Department of Public Safety in a Dec. 14 letter, meaning the FBI would not allow intermediaries to run background checks as required by the Act. Based on a resulting department clarification request to Laxalt on how to proceed, the attorney general concluded “citizens may not be prosecuted for their inability to comply with the Act unless and until the FBI changes its public position and agrees to conduct the background checks consistent with the Act.” (See correspondence here, posted by the Reno Gazette Journal.)
“We commend Attorney General Laxalt for his acknowledgement that this is a deeply flawed and unenforceable law,” Turner continued. “The Nevada Firearms Coalition and our PACs have been outspoken opponents from the beginning, and we thank Attorney General Laxalt for this significant win for the 2nd Amendment.”
This is both an astonishing development as well as a setback for the Michael Bloomberg/Everytown-spearheaded edict ending (“legal”) private transfers in the Silver State. It shows once again that those demanding more disarmament are so eager to impose new gun laws they don’t even check to make sure new infringements will be workable in light of existing ones.