New York billionaire and gun control activist Michael Bloomberg made a 20 million dollar mistake in Nevada and now his supporters are trying to pin the blame on our Attorney General Adam Laxalt. A recent guest columnist in the Reno Gazette-Journal ("Time for Nevada AG Laxalt to enforce gun check law: Rick McCann," Voices, March 7) attempts to bully our state's chief law enforcement officer into prosecuting law-abiding Nevada gun owners who share or transfer a gun without first going through a federal background check. The fact is, Laxalt cannot enforce the law because the federal government will not conduct those new background checks. For months, Laxalt, and many others, told voters the law was poorly written and unenforceable. But Bloomberg and his supporters ignored those warnings and pushed forward with their ill-advised gun control initiative.
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