Boulder DA plans tougher enforcement on gun laws

[angka]

Source: Boulder Daily Camera

Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett is hoping to cut down on gun violence by putting more emphasis on prosecuting laws that prohibit people from applying for guns when they know they aren't supposed to have them...

"Background checks are not being enforced as carefully in Boulder County as it should be," Garnett said. "If somebody knowingly applies for a gun but knows they don't qualify, that's a misdemeanor, and I want to make sure we prosecute those cases. People who repeatedly apply for guns even though they aren't qualified may be particularly dangerous people and just the kind of people we don't want to get access to firearms."

Violating that statute is a Class 1 misdemeanor, which is punishable by up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine.

Garnett said he has already about six cases of people unlawfully trying to buy firearms in Boulder County, but he said its a law that many other districts — especially those who were against the gun restrictions in 2013 — are not very strict about enforcing.

Read more: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_29331929/boulder-da-plans-tougher-enforcement-gun-laws

[TheSarcastinator]

1. good for him

Garnett should have by all rights been the CO AG but he lost to that sphincter-faced buffoon who now serves as mayor to Colorado Springs; now we have the horrendous, morally bankrupt Cythnia Coffman doing her best to rile up already-angry gunhumpers and protect the fracking industry while simultaneously failing at backroom coup against her own GOP state leadership and looking like a complete clown as a result. Stan's terrific and has been for quite awhile.

[mountain grammy]

2. Our next governor.. I hope, and better than Hickenlooper, I hope.