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If you have a concealed weapons permit, you'll now have to get a background check every time you buy a new gun.
The federal government is behind the new rule.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says it's basically because Nevada's background checks don't meet the federal requirements.
But, the gun owners and concealed weapons permit aren't at all happy about the changes.
Frank Morraele owns The Gun Trader and owns several guns himself, "Prior to the first of July, if you had a concealed weapons permit and you wanted to buy a gun, we would document it and that was good instead of calling the state and charging you $25 for a background check."
To buy a gun and obtain a carry concealed weapons, or C.C.W. permit, someone has to take an all day safety and education class.
And then it's off to the sheriff's office to be fingerprinted and photographed.
It can take 3 or 4 months to be issued a permit after the background checks at the state and federal level.
Van Lizanetz who has a concealed carry weapons permit says, "People that have C.C.W.'s have been through a stringent background check and they have taken clases to get the permit."
Gun owners and those C.C.W. holders say having to go through a background check to buy a new firearm or re-new their C.C.W. is just too much.
"A background check is necessary, I think for the first time. Unless you've committed some kind of a crime. Then I can't see any real justifiable reason in having to go through it again and pay the money 2 or 3 times," says Paul Koch, a Concealed Carry Weapons permit holder.
Gun owners says if a C.C.W. holder breaks the law, their permit will be taken away anyway; it's not like they're hiding from law enforcement because they go through a lot of trouble to get the permit.
"If you're buying a gun every month or so, which many, many people do. This can be a sum of money at the end of the year, at $25 a pop. It's the dirtbags who don't have the permits that you need to worry about," says Morreale.
The $25 background fee is on a per day, per store basis.
So, if you buy 2 guns at one shop, it's $25.
