AP: Most sheriffs in Nevada against gun background check initiative
A Nevada ballot initiative that would mandate background checks for gun purchases is opposed by several sheriffs in the state. The effort to mandate gun sales through gun dealers is financed by anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg. Via the Associated Press:
Sheriffs in most Nevada counties have come out against a background check initiative that gun control advocates are supporting on the ballot this November, but the top cop in the largest police agency in the state says he’ll sit this one out.
“This is a vote of the people,” Joe Lombardo, sheriff of Clark County and head of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, told The Associated Press. “I’ve chosen to remain neutral on this.”
In the rest of the state, most of the other 16 elected sheriffs oppose Question 1, the Nevada Background Checks for Gun Purchases Initiative.
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