By Dean Weingarten
Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- Nevada faces an initiative that would virtually ban all private sales of firearms and would require federal record-keeping of all sales and transfers.
The initiative is being promoted by a Michael Bloomberg funded group.
The group was required to turn in 101,667 valid signature by November 12 of this year, distributed among various counties. The group claimed that they turned in 247,000. The signatures have not yet been validated.
An organization of second amendment supporters is claiming that initiative proponents missed the deadline to turn in signatures to Storey County, and that they missed a requirement that all signatures be turned in on the same day.
From an AP story in kansas.com:
Petitions were turned in Nov. 13 to the Storey County clerk, said Don Turner, head of the gun rights group. That means proponents not only missed the Nov. 12 deadline there, they also missed a requirement to submit documents to each of Nevada’s 17 county clerks on the same day, he said.
Turner said that they have not finished checking 10 counties in Northern Nevada, and they may find more irregularities.
Proponents claim to be confident that the initiative will be certified. The next deadline of the certification process is on Thursday, 4 December, when the county clerks are required to have completed a sampling of signatures and report any problems.
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About Dean Weingarten;
Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of constitutional carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and recently retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.
The challenge “ain’t agonna work”. Nevada will probably have a “background check” initiative on the ballot in 2016. And, as it stands, the antis will win there as well as in Oregon. I practically lived on the various newspaper comments sections up in Washington, trying to get our point across: The people were being lied to and manipulated, i.e. There is no “loophole” (backed up with quotes from the 1968 GCA) and exposing it is a registration scheme in disguise (typical liberal trick). Unfortunately, non-gun owners didn’t give a damn (and I doubt that they will in any other state).… Read more »
We are 2 days past the Certification date and no details of what happened. Anyone know happened?