To summarize: Immigration laws = Bad, do not enforce. Gun laws = Good, always prosecute.
Via Guns:
At least one state lawmaker wants an Oregon clergy member prosecuted after he spent $3,000 of his church’s discretionary fund on raffle tickets for a gun he may have transferred illegally.
As previously reported by Guns.com, Rev. Jeremy Lucas of Christ Church Episcopal Parish in Lake Oswego went all-in on the raffle in July by throwing $3,000 in the plate for a girls’ softball team, coming away with the lucky ticket to a new AR-15.
Instead of putting the gun in his collection, Lucas told local media he intended to destroy the firearm as a political statement, saying, “There are millions of guns, I know that. But this gun will never be used to kill kids in schools, kill people in a movie theater, kill people at an office party or at any other place of mass shootings.”
However, he soon ran into trouble with the state’s new and confusing expanded background check law by asking a parishioner to store the gun while he arranged its transformation into an art object without first going through a mandated check.
Under the new law, all private gun transfers must take place through licensed firearms dealers who would perform background checks. There are some narrow exceptions for family transfers, brief loans at shooting ranges, law enforcement, and – in some cases – inherited firearms, but disregarding these, all others must go through a dealer.
With the state police looking into the case against the former attorney turned rector, state Rep. Bill Post, a Republican who spoke in opposition to and voted against the background check measure in its legislative journey, feels Lucas should be made prosecuted to show the law’s core failings.