Both sides play politics in fight over Nevada background check law

HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 20:20:04 GMT content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 content-length: 277315 x-hacker: If you're reading this, you should visit automattic.com/jobs and apply to join the fun, mention this header. x-powered-by: WordPress.com VIP link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" link: ; rel=shortlink x-rq: yyz1 102 97 3204 cache-control: max-age=300, must-revalidate age: 1282 x-cache: hit vary: Accept-Encoding accept-ranges: bytes Both sides play politics in fight over Nevada background check law | Las Vegas Review-Journal Las Vegas Review-Journal[1] Skip to content[2] February 16, 2019 - 9:51 am   CARSON CITY — The push to implement the stalled background check was all but a done deal coming into the 2019 session of the Nevada Legislature. But that didn’t stop Republican lawmakers and the National Rifle Association from sending out calls to action to constituents and gun rights supporters, who showed up en masse to voice their opposition to the bill. Republicans held press conferences, gave lengthy, impassioned speeches bemoaning the process they called secretive and complained that the bill runs afoul of Second Amendment rights. For Republicans, heavily outnumbered in both chambers, the outcry was all they could do. “I represent constituents who oppose it. They have a right to a voice. Even when you’re pushing water uphill, you talk,” Senate Minority Leader James Settelmeyer, R-Minden, said Friday. In the end, Republicans had no power to disrupt the process. Democrats, with a near-supermajority, made good on one of their biggest campaign promises of 2018 in passing Senate Bill 143, which was signed into law Friday afternoon by Gov. Steve Sisolak. The bill tweaks the original language of Question 1, which relied on forcing the FBI to conduct the background checks. The new bill instead allows the state to conduct those checks once the language goes into effect on Jan. 2, 2020. The second week of the 2019 Nevada Legislature resembled something more akin to a rehashing of the 2016

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