2aguy
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Yes...another law enforcement group opposed to stupid universal background checks....
Maine game wardens have 'serious concerns' with background check referendum
This has the Warden Service of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife worried about how it will affect hunting, a sport in which guns are frequently loaned to others especially in the case of apprenticeship and youth hunting.
“For example, the law will make it far more difficult for two hunters who have no criminal records and are legally entitled by law to possess firearms to share or loan their firearm to other legal hunters who are not prohibited from possessing firearms,” noted the service in astatement on Q3 posted Tuesday.
The conservation agency notes that, while the expansive four-page text of the initiative allows for some temporary transfers to occur without a background check, “This exception also requires the transferee to possess the gun exclusively in areas where hunting is legal,” and require the gun owner to accompany the borrower at all times, which could prove an enforcement nightmare as wardens in the field would be unable to verify “unless the transfer was actually observed by the officer.”
How many people who support universal background checks knew about this aspect of the law?
Maine game wardens have 'serious concerns' with background check referendum
This has the Warden Service of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife worried about how it will affect hunting, a sport in which guns are frequently loaned to others especially in the case of apprenticeship and youth hunting.
“For example, the law will make it far more difficult for two hunters who have no criminal records and are legally entitled by law to possess firearms to share or loan their firearm to other legal hunters who are not prohibited from possessing firearms,” noted the service in astatement on Q3 posted Tuesday.
The conservation agency notes that, while the expansive four-page text of the initiative allows for some temporary transfers to occur without a background check, “This exception also requires the transferee to possess the gun exclusively in areas where hunting is legal,” and require the gun owner to accompany the borrower at all times, which could prove an enforcement nightmare as wardens in the field would be unable to verify “unless the transfer was actually observed by the officer.”
How many people who support universal background checks knew about this aspect of the law?
