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Candidates differ on enforcement of federal gun law and the sheriff's lawsuit
Summary
In a Missoula radio interview, Attorney General Joe Mazurek said his office did not take the lead on Sheriff Prince’s challenge to the Brady Act because of resource allocation and local representation; State Sen. Larry Baer said he would enforce federal law as written if elected AG.
The two candidates for Montana attorney general addressed enforcement of the federal Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and a related local legal challenge by a county sheriff.
Joe Mazurek said his office declined to take the lead defending Sheriff Prince's challenge to the federal law because it was not a matter in which the state was named and because of resource considerations. “We simply felt it was a matter of, allocation of resources, that it was not a fight that we were named in,” Mazurek said on…
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