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Law enforcement union leader explains his support of background checks
Officially, most Las Vegas law enforcement officers aren’t taking sides on a November ballot issue to expand background checks for gun buyers.
The Nevada Association of Public Safety Officers is an exception. Not only has the union endorsed the measure, it’s making its opinion heard.
Jim Dunlap, the union’s president, has appeared in a TV ad supporting the initiative, which would close a loophole that allows buyers to avoid background checks in private transactions through sites that connect sellers with buyers, at gun shows and elsewhere. The measure would extend a longstanding federal requirement for background checks on purchases from licensed gun dealers.
Although Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo and the union that represents the majority of Metro Police officers are being neutral on the issue, Dunlap said his organization supported it out of a strong belief that it would improve public safety. The union represents more than 1,500 police officers, corrections officers and probation officers statewide.
Dunlap, a law enforcement officer for 22 years in Boulder City and Henderson, was among three ballot measure proponents who attended a discussion on the topic recently at the offices of Greenspun Media Group, which publishes The Sunday.
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