Posted on 12/26/2023 10:50:27 AM PST by Navy Patriot
A New Mexico sheriff is investigating a group of gun control advocates over concerns that their efforts to buy back and destroy firearms were unlawful.
San Juan County Sheriff Shane Ferrari announced in a Dec. 17 Facebook post that his office would investigate the group New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence (NMPGV) over a recent gun buyback event. The sheriff said the buyback event may have violated a state gun control law that prohibits firearms transfers without a background check.
NMPGV initially planned a gun buyback event with the city of Farmington in the Farmington Police Department parking lot on Dec. 8. However, Farmington Mayor Rob Mayes called it off just two days prior. Despite the Dec. 8 event’s cancellation, the gun control group announced in a Dec. 16 post on the X social media platform that its activists had instead gone door-to-door on their own to collect and dismantle unwanted firearms, and displayed images of several firearms the group claimed to have collected and dismantled.
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We all know that Prog Socialist Gun Controllers are Above The Law, so let's see how they avoid prosecution!
May have violated the law?
Does the local law require background investigations for private transfers? If not wouldn’t this fall under that?
Of course, I think it’s hilarious that they are basically being taken to task for something they agree with....
The law? That pesky US Constitution? He has to investigate?
Bkmk
“Oh no, you don’t understand. We are liberals. We MAKE the laws, we don’t have to obey them. That’s for the inbred 9-5 ham&eggers”.
Some Straw Purchases are More Equal Than Others!
Could a gun buyback be a gateway to arm antifa?
Yes, but why bother, call ATF and they'll gladly deliver, just like they did for the Cartels with Fast and Furious.
It did!
Nothing will happen. The scumbag collectivists at NMPGV have already won by daring law enforcement to do something about it. The Sheriff already folded like a cheap suit and I certainly don’t expect ATF to be distracted from their quest to subvert the constitution. There’s little chance of anyone at NMPGV being held responsible. Pitiful that law enforcement has been neutered at so many levels.
Possibly but if the toys they have access to are any indication they didn’t get those from door to door donations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CywFbSdMVx0
It does. It changed in New Mexico a year or two ago. Now private parties cannot transfer guns (except possibly inheritances etc) but certainly NOT a private group.
It’s a clear violation of the law.
Senseless....
I’d love to know how many traded in their old bolt action for some money toward a shiny new AR-15. And I really, really hope the fools running this thing get the book thrown at them in the same way they certainly would be crying for if it were pro-2A conservatives transferring firearms.
In case it hasn’t been mentioned in the last two seconds, liberals are morons.
And stupid......................
I am a Life Member of the NRA. That said, if the firearms are promptly destroyed then where’s the harm? Does the owner need to toss the firearm into a shredder? Would that be acceptable?
As a transaction, and depending on the state, there are few, if any laws restricting someone from buying a firearm, regardless of the purpose. However, one needs a federal permit to sell one. Buying a gun from an unlicensed private party is called a “straw purchase” and is illegal and the main source of weapons being used in crime. In short, the onus is on the seller, not the buyer.
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