STEVE SEBELIUS: Sisolak signs good bills on gun control, voting rights

Friday was the deadline for Gov. Steve Sisolak to sign bills passed by the 2019 session of the Nevada Legislature, and he did not slack off.

At various locations throughout Las Vegas, Sisolak signed more than a dozen bills on subjects including gun control and voting rights, which will have real impacts on public safety and participation in democracy.

Assembly Bill 291 bans bump stocks, 19 months after they were used to commit the largest mass shooting in American history at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas. It requires the safe storage of firearms, after years of reports of children gaining access to firearms with tragic results. It lowers the blood- alcohol level to legally posses a firearm from 0.10 to 0.08, to match the state’s DUI standard.

It also allows family members or law-enforcement officers to request an order from a judge to confiscate the firearms of people whom a judge agrees by preponderance of the evidence pose a risk of personal injury to themselves or others. An initial order can last seven days, while an extended order (subject to a higher standard of proof) can last for one year.