Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Jan. 15, 2017, Las Vegas Sun.

Christmas just kept coming last year for the NRA crowd in Nevada.

Three days after the holiday, Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt gave them another gift when he announced that the November ballot measure on universal background checks had hit a roadblock.

Cue the Charlie Brown music. Based on the chorus of smug comments about how opponents of the initiative had warned voters all along that it was flawed, the types who can’t drink enough NRA Kool-Aid had quite a celebration.

Here’s hoping they had plenty of fun, because now it’s time to get back to the important job of reducing gun violence in Nevada.

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