Associated Press  

Monday, January 8, 2018

Governor, AG Call Nevada Gun Background Checks Law Defective

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval and state Attorney General Adam Laxalt are telling a judge that a strict gun background-check ballot measure that voters passed in November 2016 was defective as written and can't be enforced.

Las Vegas Review-Journal  

Friday, December 1, 2017

Nevada: Background check supporters, like Wolfson, still refuse to admit Question 1 mistake

Question 1 was the 2016 ballot initiative that requires background checks on private party sales. Despite supporters spending almost $20 million, voters only narrowly approved it last November. The organizers of the effort should have ...

Elko Daily Press  

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Nevada: Gun law backers too wily for their own good

The initiative backers — in order to avoid having a fiscal note saying what the mandatory background checks would cost taxpayers, something that might cost votes — wrote the new law to say that those ...

Las Vegas Review Journal  

Monday, October 23, 2017

Attorney General Adam Laxalt: Nevada’s Question 1 wouldn’t have stopped Las Vegas Strip attacker

The horrific massacre in Las Vegas was one of the worst displays of violence our state and our nation have ever seen. Yet as we continue to deal with the shock and the grief of ...

National Review Online  

Friday, October 13, 2017

Study Finds Background-Check Laws in Wa. and Colo. Did Nothing

In the Guardian, Lois Beckett highlights a new study that has found that background-check laws in Washington and Colorado have “had little measurable effect”.