Appeals Court Rejects Challenge To Washington State’s Universal Background Check Law

By Tom Knighton

Universal background checks are absolutely pointless. Criminals looking to bypass the system will either buy black market firearms or use a straw buyer, like in Chicago. All this does is make it more difficult for law-abiding people to exercise their Second Amendment rights. Further, it’s constitutionality is questionable at best.

However, the U.S. Court of Appeals rejected a lawsuit that sought to challenge Washington state’s universal background check law.

A federal appeals court panel has unanimously rejected a challenge to Washington’s law requiring background checks for gun transfers.

Washington voters approved Initiative 594 in 2014. It requires people transferring a firearm to go through a federally licensed firearms dealer to conduct a background check on the buyer, even for private sales or sales at gun shows.

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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel said the remaining plaintiffs did not have standing to challenge the law because they had not shown a credible threat that they might be prosecuted.

Unfortunately, the whole argument of standing is annoying. The law impacts every lawful gun owner in the state, but that’s not enough in this case, which is a pain.

For gun rights, an outright upholding of the law would be preferable, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms