Apparently We Won One - For Now - 12/31/16 10:49 PM
It looks like President Barack Obama’s allies in the Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety will need to head back to the drawing board. Nevada’s Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt just crushed a state ballot initiative, passed on Nov. 8, to make guns more difficult to purchase in Nevada.
Reported by Conservative Tribune:
According to Breitbart, Laxalt (grandson of Reagan confidant former Sen. Paul Laxalt) blocked the implementation of the ruling on Dec. 28 because the gun grabbers wrote it in such a way as to render it unenforceable from the get-go.
The initiative would have provided universal background checks on gun sales, both for retail and private sales — objectionable, perhaps, but simple enough, right? Well, no … not the way the law was written.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Laxalt blocked enforcement of the law because it requires that “intermediaries” — meaning licensed firearms dealers — perform the background checks through the FBI database.
However, the FBI does not allow dealers to perform such checks directly; rather, it requires the State Department of Pubic Safety to request the background information.
In other words, the gun grabbers who wrote this law wrote it in such a way that it cannot be enforced.
My take: We should all be alarmed with measures such as this even though it's stopped for now . The Antis now realize that chances of getting universal background checks, which are an absolute necessity to move on to firearms confiscation, is unlikely to occur at the Federal level. They are therefore going directly to the States and starting with vulnerable ones as they did in Oregon. A strategy needs to be developed to counteract these measures and defeat then at the State level whenever they come up.
Jim
Reported by Conservative Tribune:
According to Breitbart, Laxalt (grandson of Reagan confidant former Sen. Paul Laxalt) blocked the implementation of the ruling on Dec. 28 because the gun grabbers wrote it in such a way as to render it unenforceable from the get-go.
The initiative would have provided universal background checks on gun sales, both for retail and private sales — objectionable, perhaps, but simple enough, right? Well, no … not the way the law was written.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Laxalt blocked enforcement of the law because it requires that “intermediaries” — meaning licensed firearms dealers — perform the background checks through the FBI database.
However, the FBI does not allow dealers to perform such checks directly; rather, it requires the State Department of Pubic Safety to request the background information.
In other words, the gun grabbers who wrote this law wrote it in such a way that it cannot be enforced.
My take: We should all be alarmed with measures such as this even though it's stopped for now . The Antis now realize that chances of getting universal background checks, which are an absolute necessity to move on to firearms confiscation, is unlikely to occur at the Federal level. They are therefore going directly to the States and starting with vulnerable ones as they did in Oregon. A strategy needs to be developed to counteract these measures and defeat then at the State level whenever they come up.
Jim