This is HUGE! Oregon Governor Kate Brown just signed background checks into law!
Oregon is now the 18th state to require criminal background checks on all handgun sales – and the 12th to require them on all gun sales. This is an incredible victory for Oregon – but also for gun sense across the country – because it shows what happens when we come together and stand up to the gun lobby. Not only do we win, we win BIG.
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n Oregon, domestic abusers and meth users are evading background checks and buying guns online in plain sight. Federal law requires brick-and-mortar gun stores to run background checks on potential buyers and bars domestic abusers and criminals like this man from buying firearms. There is abundant evidence that this stops gun sales to dangerous people. But in Oregon, a gaping loophole in the law makes it easy for people like the Portland man to buy guns from unlicensed sellers who are not required to run background checks. As a result, there was nothing to stop this dangerous criminal from getting a gun from a stranger he met online, no questions asked. Learn more and take action.
A Look Inside Oregon’s Vast Online Gun Market
A few clicks. That’s all it takes for a dangerous criminal to buy a gun in Oregon. That’s because Oregon currently lets anyone sell a gun to a stranger they meet online – no questions asked.
Federal law requires brick-and-mortar gun stores to run background checks on potential buyers. But in Oregon, a gaping loophole in the law makes it easy for dangerous people to buy guns from unlicensed sellers who are not required to run background checks. As a result, there was nothing to stop this dangerous criminal from getting a gun from a stranger they met online, no questions asked.
Illustrations of some of the ridiculous things said during a recent gun safety hearing on strengthening background checks.
Thank you, Amy Schumer, for adding your voice to the movement to reduce gun violence.
“When members of Nevadans For Background Checks converged on the Cheyenne Avenue election center on Nov. 12, they brought with them nearly 250,000 signatures — more than twice the number necessary to qualify its initiative for the 2016 ballot statewide.”
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Really, Kansas?
State-by-state, the gun lobby is working to weaken and eventually eliminate minimum standards to carry concealed weapons in public. We strongly oppose this effort.
A clean recent criminal history and basic gun safety training should be required for a person to carry a hidden, loaded gun in public. Don’t you agree?
Is this what Trump means by “protecting our Second Amendment rights will Make America Great Again”?
If this is what his campaign looks like—then count us out on that vision for our country.
We want a safer America and it’s why we’re working to elect Hillary—someone who has put gun safety front and center in her campaign—the next president of the United States.
Saturday is the first day of National Gun Violence Survivors Week – when we ask everyone to shine a spotlight on the stories of Americans who have had loved ones taken by gun violence, who have been wounded or threatened with a gun, or witnessed a shooting.
We’ll be sharing the stories of survivors and statistics that highlight the impact of gun violence.
