Posted on 10/18/2016 8:16:30 AM PDT by rktman
Demographic shifts already have transformed Nevada into a swing state in recent presidential elections and given Democrats an edge in voter registration. They have also made the Silver State the latest testing site for Michael R. Bloomberg’s attempt to pass a law requiring background checks for gun sales between private parties, including those conducted over the Internet.
Polling indicates Bloomberg may have bet correctly.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal released a poll earlier this month showing 58% of likely registered voters supported Question 1, which would require people like Leal to run background checks on buyers. Three other polls released since July have shown the measure steadily drawing more than 60% support.
If it passes, Nevada would join eight states that have a similar requirement. Washington passed a ballot measure in 2014. Colorado and Oregon’s legislatures passed private-party background checks recently as well.
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It was a BS poll. 500 people and they only polled Clark County and Reno. I live here, I see how many people dont want this.. it will not happen if the trends I am seeing are an indicator.
I agree with you. Even the far left reno gazette urinal said last year it was a bad idea but have since changed their position and now support it. Brian Sandoval opposes it and thankfully jack haley is no longer sheriff as he supported it . Chuck Allen opposes it. Thanks Chuck.
Step 1: migrate from California to Nevada due to high cost of living, irrational government tax and spend policies, or job loss as a result of excessive regulations.
Step 2: enact same laws and vote for same political party that created the mess in California.
Step 3: migrate from Nevada to...
You are absolutely correct.
Local sheriff opposes and has said he can’t enforce, so there’s that, but yeah, this is not what I expected when I moved to NV....
—went through a couple of lines of the comments to the hit piece—as usual , our side is predominant—at least the Times still allows that unlike some others-—
Yeah, not what we expected either when we moved here 5 years ago. Our up hill neighbor is an LEO and he doesn’t think it will pass, but if it does, he said “who’s gonna enforce it? Where’s the funding, the time and manpower coming from?”.
More on this from Breitbart
I was under the impression that no law can prevent future legislatures from amending it, even for a limited time.
I believe, if I’m correct, the way the statutes are written for ballot initiatives in NV prohibit the legislature from acting on said ballot initiatives for 3 years. Someone correct me if I’ve misread/misinterpreted this. I was a little confused that this would be the case but I think it is.
Kalifornians dislike their state so much, they move to neighboring states and californicate them into the same mess. It is happening to Arizona too.
We have a similar ballot measure here in Maine, Measure 3.
It’s pushed by Bloomturd. He had a liberal Washington, D.C. group canvas Maine, trying to get signatures from (mostly) women. Unfortunately, he succeeded.
A lot of these idiots with the clipboards were from out of state, too. They approached my sister in a parking lot last spring....my sister said no and refused to sign.
Maine has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the country, and one of the lowest crime rates, too.
What this measure does is ban private sales of firearms, something that has existed in Maine for 300 years. Opponents of Measure 3 say it will lead to firearm registration. They try to push registration in Maine, and people will be literally up arms.
Every police chief in Maine supports this stupid Measure 3, and some of these idiots are running commercials on both TV and radio.
The sheriffs of Maine....elected to their office....are opposed to Measure 3 and have run commercials with their names and counties below their names on the TV screen. The sheriffs say that good people will end up in jail.
Meanwhile, the NRA has run very few ads. I’m actually ticked off at the NRA for not bombarding Maine and Nevada with TV and radio ads. I heard a few radio ads in opposition to this “background check” crap several weeks ago, but that was it, with the exception of the ads run by the Maine sheriffs in opposition.
I’ve seen a handful of “Yes on 3” signs as I drive around my area of Maine. The “No on 3” signs and bumper stickers are everywhere.....too many to count.
The Sportsman Alliance of Maine has vowed to fight the measure in the Maine House and the Maine Senate if it passes. Gov. Paul LePage has stated that the “background check” measure violates the Maine Constitution.
As I was explaining to a gun grabber, if I sell my gun to a neighbor I trust how is anyone going to know without gun registration? So another bs lets make legal law abiding citizens criminals law.
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