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that requirement, allowing the stores selling firearms to do the background check instead.
Reid believes that change could put people at risk by removing local law enforcement's knowledge of a problem.
"Identified gang members that have not been convicted of a crime that would keep them from getting a purchase permit,” Reid said. “But our officers know who they are and that they're a threat to society."
In North Carolina, a sheriff can reject a gun permit based on moral grounds. |
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xqqme
(6/5/2015)
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Guilt by association...
Presumption of innocence tossed out the window...
Sheriff acts as judge and practices fortune telling...
Sound constitutional?
The believers in an achievable utopia are willing to toss everyone's freedom away for their dream... one that can never be fulfilled. |
| Comment by:
teebonicus
(6/5/2015)
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Requiring permits to purchase is facially unconstitutional.
Permits to carry are also unconstitutional unless there is an avenue for carrying without a permit, such as "concealed" v. "open". If open carry doesn't require a permit, then CCW permits can be required because the RKBA isn't materially infringed. |
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