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Nevada AG Blocks Implementation of Bloomberg-Backed Background Checks

by AWR Hawkins On December 28, Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt issued an opinion blocking the implementation of the universal background checks Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety secured via a “narrowly approved” November 8 ballot initiative. Like the Washington state initiative that Bloomberg-funded Everytown secured in November 2014, the Nevada initiative would have required Nevada residents to go through a background check for every gun sale, whether retail or private. The checks were supposed to go into effect on January 1, but Laxalt has now halted the process. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Laxalt found the checks… View Article