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The FBI Won't Help Nevada Enforce Its Background Check Law
Nevada passed a law requiring background checks for private party gun sales. But the FBI refuses to conduct the background checks and the state lacks authority to do so. Essentially, the law is unenforceable.
Republican Attorney General Adam Laxalt issued the opinion on the gun law, which was cheered by gun rights advocates.
Nevada voters approved a new gun control law – so why was it not enforced?
But Nevada’s new gun law has never been enforced. Days before it was slated to go into effect, the state’s Republican attorney general released a legal opinion concluding that citizens were “excused from compliance”, calling the new law unenforceable.
The attorney general who made the decision, Adam Paul Laxalt, spoke at the NRA’s annual meeting this year, where he was hailed by the NRA’s chief lobbyist for ensuring that Nevada’s new background check legislation for private sales was still not the law of the land. Laxalt had publicly opposed the background check measure before it passed, a mark of opposition the NRA had publicized in its fight against the measure.
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Nevada voters voted for a background check law the Republicans pretty much said: so what, we aren't enforcing it.
So would you feel safe going to Nevada knowing that the state GOP is on the side of mass murderers? Will this hit Las Vegas in the pocketbook? Or is it a one time thing and in two weeks, it will be business as usual and nothing will have changed?
Even if this law were enforced, it probably wouldn't have stopped the mass murderer from killing and wounding so many. Does that make any difference?
Nevada passed a law requiring background checks for private party gun sales. But the FBI refuses to conduct the background checks and the state lacks authority to do so. Essentially, the law is unenforceable.
Republican Attorney General Adam Laxalt issued the opinion on the gun law, which was cheered by gun rights advocates.
Nevada voters approved a new gun control law – so why was it not enforced?
But Nevada’s new gun law has never been enforced. Days before it was slated to go into effect, the state’s Republican attorney general released a legal opinion concluding that citizens were “excused from compliance”, calling the new law unenforceable.
The attorney general who made the decision, Adam Paul Laxalt, spoke at the NRA’s annual meeting this year, where he was hailed by the NRA’s chief lobbyist for ensuring that Nevada’s new background check legislation for private sales was still not the law of the land. Laxalt had publicly opposed the background check measure before it passed, a mark of opposition the NRA had publicized in its fight against the measure.
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Nevada voters voted for a background check law the Republicans pretty much said: so what, we aren't enforcing it.
So would you feel safe going to Nevada knowing that the state GOP is on the side of mass murderers? Will this hit Las Vegas in the pocketbook? Or is it a one time thing and in two weeks, it will be business as usual and nothing will have changed?
Even if this law were enforced, it probably wouldn't have stopped the mass murderer from killing and wounding so many. Does that make any difference?