NM Editorial Notes Big Problem In ‘Universal Background Checks’

By Tom Knighton

Universal background checks are all the rage with the anti-gun left these days. Nevermind that not a single high-profile criminal appears to have gotten a firearm through a face-to-face transfer that I can recall, nor the fact that we haven’t seen a single one get a firearm in such a way that couldn’t have gotten it with a standard background check. They’re still a major focus of the anti-gun left.

In New Mexico, there’s been an ongoing battle between lawmakers and county sheriffs. It got to the point where the attorney general has demanded the sheriffs enforce the law as written.

However, it seems that some people–journalists, even–understand the challenges behind Attorney General Hector Balderas’s demands more than lawmakers do.

In theory, we agree with Balderas.

The Journal has traditionally held that public servants don’t get to pick and choose what laws to enforce, whether it’s guns or cooperating with immigration agents.

We even agreed with legislators that expanding background checks was a common-sense check on weapons trading. Why wouldn’t you want to background check everyone who buys a gun?

But political posturing and base pandering aside, law enforcement agencies have a point, and Balderas has a serious problem.

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