Dealers won't do background checks.

[Bealzybub]

Ya know it takes a pretty smooth talking politician to keep people believing that even though ALL the previous gun laws worked we need to pass just one more to to keep the ever increasing violent crime rate minimized.

 

[etrain16]

You people are so gullible.

 

[Goosebrown]

This has been the law in CA for 20+ years and every dealer will do the transfer and they charge $20-30 on top of the background check. It sucks but isn't horrible in the financial toll.

Of course the whole universal background check hasn't moved the needle in CA on murders any more than states that don't have them. There is a general and long term decline in murders (yay!) and it doesn't have a thing to do with background checks.

 

[Bealzybub]

There is a general and long term decline in murders (yay!)

Thats changed of late. It seems that the places with the strictest laws in the country doth protest.

 

[Goosebrown]

There is a general and long term decline in murders (yay!)

Thats changed of late. It seems that the places with the strictest laws in the country doth protest.

On a case by case comparison you can show anything you like. However statistically, murders are on a downward trend and have been for 20 years.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/10/us-usa-crime-fbi-idUSKCN0IU1UM20141110

 

[DuneHopper]

On a case by case comparison you can show anything you like. However statistically, murders are on a downward trend and have been for 20 years.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/10/us-usa-crime-fbi-idUSKCN0IU1UM20141110

Yep and places like Oakland California in an area that has huge gun restrictions there is a murder every .85 days.

 

[dobeman]

The bottom line fellas is if they wont give US a number to call to perform a background check then it just cant be that important to them. RIGHT ?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?

The motivation is obvious. Whenever theres a big shooting its always followed by laws that are going to prevent it from ever happening again. RIGHT ?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

You people are so gullible.

that's how Europe, Australia ended up where they are. some mass shootings, media orchestrated public outcry, politicians take such orchestrated outcry as a mandate and ban guns on behalf of the people. Right?

 

[Charliehorse]

Until such time that the balance of power in Salem shifts, which can only happen if the voters in Oregon wake up and vote against these bozos, we'll never get a chance to see such a law in place. I am hopeful, though not hugely hopeful, that the balance will shift for the better in 2016. .

I'd like to hope that too but... Tea Party type citizen voters stood up in 2010 and more Conservatives stood up in 2014. Yet not many of those conservative promises have actually been enacted....