(Nevada) Governor vetoes gun bill, says it would erode rights
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Gov. Brian Sandoval has vetoed a bill requiring background checks for gun sales between private parties, saying it “imposes unreasonable burdens and harsh penalties upon law-abiding Nevadans, while doing little to prevent criminals from unlawfully obtaining firearms.”
In his veto message, the governor said background checks would “constitute an erosion of Nevadans’ Second Amendment rights under the United States Constitution and may subject otherwise law-abiding citizens to criminal prosecution.”
The bill, SB-221, was pushed by its sponsor, Sen. Justin Jones, D-Las Vegas, who has said he was not surprised by the governor’s promise to veto the bill. He said that if Congress does not require universal background checks, he will push his legislation again in the 2015 Legislature.
Although it was no secret that Sandoval was going to veto Jones' bill, the veto message sparked the ire of progressive groups that had lobbied for its passage.
Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/jun/13/governor-vetoes-gun-bill-says-it-would-erode-right/#ixzz2W7f9L5Zz
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I also called. Did you? The message did not ask whether you were a resident of Nevada, much less Clark County. It asked you to press one to indicate your support of the bill, 2 to indicate your opposition. Then it hung up.
You want to hang your hat on that system, "on the ground"? 
turn the tide? You keep saying that the gun control movement is getting stronger, so what happened here?
Thanks to Bloomberg and MAIG, we won't have another chance at statewide UBC until 2015.
Like I said, I live here, I know the resentment that was generated by Bloomie and Co. interfering in our politics.
But if your theory makes you feel better, then be my guest and stick with it.
One other thing, if SB 221 was so popular, why did it pass the NV. Senate by 1 vote and the NV. Assembly by 4 votes?
An 86% approval rate should've had more support in our legislature.
I imagine the samples you used re: phone calls don't square with the sample of the voters because the national RW political action committee know as the NRA is pretty good at mustering its members via the mechanism of paranoia and fear to better get them to overturn the popular vote. 
"Bloomberg, who is nothing more than a member of the 1%'ers, telling us how we should vote..." No problem with the NRA telling people how to vote though...
I've been consistent on UBC, now, go away.
By who? rdharma?
I don't really give a damn what you believe, I worked hard to get this bill passed, I called the Gov's. office several times urging him to sign it, now, I have to start all over again in 2015, and hopefully, Bloomberg, MAIG and the NRA will stay away this time, and, hopefully, we'll have a new Gov. that is more amendable to signing a UBC into law.
Getting nailed in other threads? Funniest thing I've heard today, and the day has just started.
If I were you, I wouldn't hang my hat on someone like him who constantly distorts the truth.
Have a good day, I plan to, and, you just made my day even better. 
I don't like big-city money influencing other states' politics, either.
