No money for gun background check enforcement, Burdick admits | KATU Investigators | KATU.com - Portland, Oregon:
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August 07, 2015
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A new law requiring background checks for all firearm sales and transfers, including private transactions, goes into effect in Oregon Sunday. But will anyone enforce it? One of the main sponsors of the bill, State Sen. Ginny Burdick (D-Portland), admitted Friday the law doesn't include money for enforcement. Still, Burdick said, “This will make it harder for the criminals and the dangerously mentally ill to get guns.” If you sell a gun privately, in person or online, the law says you have to meet the buyer at a licensed gun shop and have them go through a background check, which Burdick says costs $10.
Law enforcement authorities in the Portland area and throughout the state say they won't go out and find people who are breaking the law, though they will investigate any reports they get. "It’s just a simple practicality - until we have the resources here to fully fund law enforcement and prosecution, new crimes probably aren’t going to get much attention," Lane County Sheriff Byron Trapp said when asked about the bill in June.Ha Ha Ha! Hee Hee Hee!
We always knew this wouldn't fit with the Economy!
(Hat Top to Say Uncle)
The Egretious Ginny Burdick admits that the law which she and other Oregon Democrats (most of the Senate and House are Democrats) worked so hard for is .. unenforceable.
Which we could have told them (and we did!) while the bill was under discussion.
But would they listen? NOOOooooooo!
So all of we Oregonions who have been saying WILL NOT COMPLY! are reduced to empty-words status.
Which, of course, comes as no surprise to those of us with living brain cells. (NOTE: DOES NOT INCLUDE ELECTED POLITICIAN!)
Let's take another look at the quote from the leading paragraph:
“This will make it harder for the criminals and the dangerously mentally ill to get guns.”
Question ... this will "make it harder" for questionable purchasers of firearms 'to get guns' HOW?
Answer: not at all.
As is true with ALL gun laws, this only restricts access by law-abiding citizens. Lunatics and criminals do not abide by legislation, so they have the same access they always have had.
Only Idiots and State Senators (but I repeat myself) believe that passing laws restricting access to firearms are an effective way to keep criminals and nut-cases from accessing .. well, guns, drugs, or anything else they want!
Speaking personally, my only surprise is that the Senators of the Great State of Oregon admitted that this law was flawed so early.
usually, they don't make that moral breakthrough until someone has dies.
Question: Does that man that they (the Oregon Senate) are going to delete the stupid, ineffectual law?
Answer: Oh, HELL NO!
That would be admitting that the Senate is ineffectual. And Stupid!
6 comments:
Almost all elected politicians and lawmakers know more than the people that elected them. More citizens need to wake up to this fact.
Please find me an FFL who only charges $10. The last transfer I did was $50.
They are only passing laws that the citizens has risen up and demanded be passed. Every voter in Oregon wants to limit guns and gun violence.
@Mark: TriTac in Salem only charges $20 in addition to the $10 the OSP charges. Total to transfer: $30. This is the lowest I've found among dealers that will actually handle private-party transfers (many won't).
@Anonymous 8/12 6:21 am: Wrong. I seem to recall a very similar "universal background check" [sic] referendum measure went to voters a couple years back. It did not pass.
I'm a voter in Oregon, and I don't want to limit guns (absent a very compelling reason). "Gun violence" is no different from any other kind of violence. To say otherwise is to say that knife violence, baseball bat violence, hands/feet/fist violence, etc., don't matter. Violence is violence, and personally I'd fear a violent kook with gasoline and matches more than a violent kook with a gun. Especially in this weather.
Cheer not, Sir Geek. This law is only the baseline for mandatory Registration. The law has no other purpose, and can't, except possbly as after-the-fact harrassment when a seller uses a gun in a crime and is arrested with said gun. For the next few months or so, such sellers have the following alibi: you sold that gu n to that person, and the sale occurred before August.
Any Mouse
The joys and benefits of living in a progressive state.
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