A voter-approved Oregon gun control law violates the state constitution, a judge ruled Tuesday, continuing to block it from taking effect and casting fresh doubt over the future of the embattled measure.
The law requires people to undergo a criminal background check and complete a gun safety training course in order to obtain a permit to buy a firearm. It also bans high-capacity magazines.
The plaintiffs in the federal case, which include the Oregon Firearms Federation, have appealed the ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The case could potentially go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
So then people who have a history of using them for crime which is very much not self defense ought not apply?
If they’re convicted felons, yes.
And yet the court said the opposite, because they don’t care
No court has ruled that felons can be gun owners, nor should they.
Read the article. An a law requiring background checks to block felons from purchasing guns was blocked, so they can only enforce it after the fact
That’s not what this law proposed. The background check blocking felons from purchasing a gun is still in place and it’s a federal regulation, not a state one.
What the court blocked was a requirement that you get certified training (which doesn’t exist) and a background check BEFORE you can buy a gun.
So it was a super-double background check which was wholly unmerited.