President of a local gun organization tells us his views of Governor DeWine's latest background check proposal.
President of the Lima SABRES Shooting Association thinks the enhanced background check proposal is a good thing and is a good solution that doesn't take firearms from citizens. DeWine plans to ask the General Assembly to make it law that domestic violence, stalking, and sexual assault protection orders be entered into databases. Police would have two days to put that information in, to use during background checks.
"The initial background checks in the past is result of the Brady Bill in 1993 and that's when the first background checks started being mandated. Back prior to that, we didn't have these crimes that are going on now with the firearms, so it's not really a gun problem or the availability of the guns in my opinion, I think it's a societal problem," commented Jim Yarger, President of Lima SABRES Shooting Association.
DeWine's proposal would also include adding active warrants to those databases.
