Why One Sheriff Won't Enforce Oregon's New Background-Check Gun Law
http://www.opb.org/news/article/sheriff-wont-enforce-new-background-check-law/
http://www.opb.org/news/article/sheriff-wont-enforce-new-background-check-law/
DD: They’re going to get (a gun) anyway. That’s the bottom line. This process of having the people that are law abiding, and they want to transfer guns, go through the system, is fine. But the bad people are going to get the guns regardless. So I truly think it’s a waste of time.
So what?Nick Burkhardt said:Why One Sheriff Won't Enforce Oregon's New Background-Check Gun Law
KD: When you say “not enforce,” do you mean that you won’t go out looking for people who don’t comply with the new law? Or do you mean that if you were investigating a person crime, or a violent crime that’s already been committed, would you ignore the law in your investigation?
DD: No, I don’t think that’s the case. If you’re talking about investigating some type of a gun crime, where you have a person to person crime or potentially a property crime, if it comes across our desk we’ll look at it. However, in the totally of the investigation it is very low on a priority list as to whether a person went through some type of a background check....
First of all because the OP didn't bother to raise that as the point of the discussion. He just tossed out a link and left us all to guess what he thought the significance of the Sheriff's statements were.1911 guy said:...County Sheriff comes out with a clear statement of what many of us say here daily and it rates "So what"?
Color me confused. Why are we not cheering his statement that the law is an infringement and encouraging other public servants to do the same?
Color me confused. Why are we not cheering his statement that the law is an infringement and encouraging other public servants to do the same?
It's a political position. Sheriffs are elected there.....