A pastor in Oregon may go to jail for wanting to destroy a gun.
This story exemplifies strangulation of the Second Amendment by legislation and the ill effects arising from such attempts at bypassing the Constitution. This person, someone who seems to oppose guns, may go to jail for an honest attempt to secure a firearm while he prepared to destroy it. This is the case with many, if not most, gun control legislation. Conscientious, law-abiding, gun owners suffer while criminals just ignore the laws.
It started when Jeremy Lucas happened upon a story on a girls softball league that was holding a raffle to sponsor the team's travel to a tournament in California. The grand prize: an AR-15 rifle.
Lucas was disturbed by the thought of a kids' sports league raffling off a rifle, but he wanted to support the team's fundraising effort so he bought as many raffle tickets as he could in the hopes of winning the rifle, which he did.
Then Lucas announced his plans to destroy the rifle. After garnering plenty of local press, the Washington Post picked up the story and Lucas told the paper he had picked up the rifle from a gun store, but had left the rifle at the home of a "responsible gun owner" who offered to keep the weapon locked in a gun safe.
The only problem? As of May 11, 2015, any transfer of a firearm in Oregon, even between private parties when no money changes hands, requires a full background check, also known as universal background check law.
Read more of the truth about universal background checks here.
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