Nevada may expand gun background checks
By Megan Messerly, Las Vegas Sun
Advocates of gun control raked in $3.6 million over the last two years to place an initiative to tighten background checks for gun purchases and transfers in Nevada on the November ballot and ensure it passes.
The initiative is part of a broader national push to establish universal background check laws state by state after an effort to do so on the federal level failed in 2013. Mostly recently, Washington passed an expanded background check law through the ballot initiative process in 2014, and Oregon’s legislature approved a similar law last year.
In total, 18 states have enacted background check laws that go beyond what federal law requires. Nevada is poised to become the 19th.