Posted on 09/21/2018 3:35:41 AM PDT by rellimpank
Backers of a voter-approved gun buyer screening initiative that passed in November 2016 but was never enacted have filed notice they'll ask the Nevada Supreme Court to overrule a judge who decided the measure was fatally flawed and could not be enforced.
The state high court should side with voters who chose to close what proponents of the measure call a legal loophole that lets gun purchasers skip background screenings when buying from another person or online, attorney Tami Cowden said Thursday. Twenty states have similar laws, she said.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval declined through his spokeswoman to respond to the Wednesday court filing alleging that he and state Attorney General Adam Laxalt failed to follow the will of the voters.
Sandoval, a two-term Republican, and Laxalt, the GOP candidate running to replace him this November, opposed the initiative, Question 1, before it passed two years ago by a narrow 1 percent margin.
Laxalt issued a statement calling the appeal frivolous.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
The law stated that the FBI would perform background checks of private sales through their NICS system, and the FBI said ‘no, we won’t.’
No state court can force a federal agency to do something it doesn’t want to do.
Appeal is a PR stunt in an election year. The measure calls for the FBI to perform the expanded background checks, but that’s not the FBI’s job, and the FBI has stated they’re not going to perform the expanded checks.
The backers of the resolution have never explained how they expect the Governor and the NV Atty Gen. to force the FBI to do the background checks, which is absurd on the face of it, and would be impossible to do.
Remove all the illegal voters in Clark County & Washoe County & that measure would have been defeated by about a 3 to 1 ratio.
Clark County-—Las Vegas—is mostly illegal aliens...and they are voting.
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Washoe is OK, but Clark County is at least 20% fraudulent voting.
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