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sl8

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1. Why wouldn't the state just arrest the perpetrator and send them to prison?

Reply to Tom Rinaldo (Original post)

Sat Sep 4, 2021, 12:08 PM

Sep 2021

The Texas law was written the way it was to avoid judicial review. It specifies that there will be no government enforcement, only enforcement by "civilian" lawsuits. That's not currently much of an issue with state mandated background checks. Plenty of states currently have them.

Currently, if you break the state's background check law, the state can send you to prison. Would your plan's "civilian" enforcement replace state enforcement, like the Texas law, or would it go further and allow both?

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A Blue State needs to pass legislation regarding any gun sales without completed background checks [View all] Tom Rinaldo Sep 2021 OP

Why wouldn't the state just arrest the perpetrator and send them to prison? sl8 Sep 2021 #1

In my mind the whole point would be to totally mimiic the Texas law, because then the legal farce... Tom Rinaldo Sep 2021 #2