Posted March 20, 2017 8:00 am by Comments

By Christen Smith

Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt (Photo: Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A leading gun rights group in Nevada leaped to Attorney General Adam Laxalt’s defense last week after gun control activists accused the state’s top cop of playing politics with the universal background check law.
Robert Uithoven, campaign manager of NRA Nevadans for Freedom, said Thursday in an editorial for the Reno Gazette-Journal, the “anti-gun zealots” have only themselves to blame for peddling a faulty ballot measure without a clear understanding of state law — not Laxalt for recognizing its deficiencies.
“Bloomberg’s gun control initiative is a huge failure in Nevada because he never took the time to learn how things work in our state,” he said. “Bloomberg attempted to impose cookie-cutter legislation in Nevada that he had already passed in other states. He didn’t bother to see how Nevada’s gun laws were different.  And now his supporters are scrambling to find a scapegoat for their failure. That’s not how we do things in Nevada.”
Three days before the new year, Laxalt halted the measure, formerly known as Question 1, because he said its language made conducting background checks on private sales impossible.
Nevada uses a state agency to process background checks for firearms transfers, however, the law requires

Source: Guns.com

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