PA Bill Number: HB1661
Title: Further providing for schedules of controlled substances; and providing for secure storage of xylazine.
Description: Further providing for schedules of controlled substances; and providing for secure storage of xylazine. ...
Last Action: Act No. 17 of 2024
Last Action Date: May 15, 2024
Maine, Nevada Sheriffs Tell Anti-Gunners to Pound Sand :: 10/10/2016
Twelve of Maine’s 16 county sheriffs have essentially told anti-gunners backing a so-called “universal background check” measure on that state’s November ballot to pound sand, explaining that Question 3 “will do nothing to stop evil people from getting their hands on guns.”
Anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety supports gun control measures in Maine and Nevada that local sheriffs oppose.
Question 3 is backed by anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety and its clones.
In an open letter published earlier this week on the Facebook page by Hancock County Sheriff Scott Kane, the sheriffs note, “In fact all relevant data indicates that criminals acquire firearms through theft and the black market. This initiative will not stop the reoccurring pattern.”
Meanwhile, as noted by Guns.com, all but one county sheriff in Nevada is opposed to Question 1 on the Silver State ballot next month. Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety also backs that ballot measure.
This puts the sheriffs at odds with municipal police chiefs in Maine, and a police organization in Nevada. South Portland Police Chief Ed Googins told reporters last month that Question 3 is “a common-sense proposal that will help keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people.”
The anti-gun Nevadans for Background Checks, which is backing Question 1, is supported by the Las Vegas lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police and the Nevada Association of Public Safety Officers, Guns.com said.
What’s the main difference between police chiefs and sheriffs? Sheriffs are elected officials, and they happen to be the top law enforcement officers in their respective counties. The answer to the people. City police chiefs are appointed by mayors and/or city councils and they typically form their opinions around what their bosses believe.
The measure is patterned after Initiative 594, passed two years ago out in Washington State. The groups backing that initiative spent more than $10 million to pass it. It opened the door to similar legislation adopted last year in Oregon, and another ballot measure in Nevada.
“Universal background checks” require every firearms transfer – not just sales, but also loans of firearms – to be put on paper. Essentially, critics assert, this is backdoor gun registration.
But does it accomplish anything, as the Maine sheriffs explain it will not?
In Washington, two years after their initiative passed, there does not appear to have been a single arrest or prosecution for violating the law, and it appears nobody is enforcing it. When it comes to violent crime, there also does not appear to have been any crime prevention.
Indeed, last month’s fatal shooting at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, a community about 65 miles north of Seattle, was committed with a gun that was taken without the owner’s permission by his stepson.
http://libertyparkpress.com/maine-nevada-sheriffs-tell-anti-gunners-to-pound-sand/
