I received this e-mail from the Oregon Firearms Federation (OFF). I reports the usual attempt for dimtards here to try to take away our 2A rights. Yes, this is in Oregon, but I suspect that many other states will be subject to these possible oppressions.
The Oregon Legislature has announced the first of the firearms bills for 2021.
Here is a quick run down on the anti-gun bills.
HB 2510 is another mandatory lock up your guns bill. Basically a rehash of what the Democrats tried to force through last time.
For those of you who don’t know what the previous attempt at this was, it mandated that all firearms be locked up, via a safe or one of the various easily defeated gun locks available. But the worst part is . . . if said firearm was stolen and used in a crime, the owner of said firearm would be held responsible for a crime. Doesn’t matter if the gun was locked, then stolen and unlocked, YOU are a criminal.
HB 2543 eliminates the protection gun buyers have if the State Police can’t or won’t complete a background check. If they don’t complete the check you cannot buy a gun.
I am a victim of this one. It isn’t a law yet, but gun dealers are afraid of following this law: if a purchaser is delayed because of a background check, the vendor that can release the weapon to the buyer after three days.
I tried to buy an AR-15 here after I moved from California. I had purchased no less than three firearms there before I moved. Yes, I had to go through the mandated waiting period but once that time was over I picked up my guns. No problems. Since then I’ve committed no crimes or violated any of the prerequisites that would allow me to own a gun. Not even so much as a parking citation.
So when I paid for the gun, the dealer ran the allegedly “instant background check.” He said I was delayed.
So I waited.
And waited.
And waited ’til my waiter was sore. (OK, I’m no Dr. Seuss, but I tried).
I waited almost SIX MONTHS, called the State Police at least three times, and all three times I was told I was delayed because I had a court case (which had already been resolved in my favor) they were concerned about in California. YET I WAS ABLE TO BUY GUNS IN CALIFORNIA! Mind boggling.
SB 396 prohibits “undetectable firearms”. This is the Democrats ham fisted attempt to ban “ghost guns” “constructed or produced, including through a three-dimensional printing process, entirely of nonmetal substances”.
The bill also redefines “unfinished frames and receivers “ as actual firearms and requires they be treated as such for possession and transfer.
OK part of this is like the mythical porcelain (cannot be picked up by metal detectors) Glock 7 which the film also claims was made in Germany, *eye roll* that was referred to in “Die Hard 2.” There is no firearm that if it was loaded, no matter what it was made of that can get through a metal detector! Why? BECAUSE THE AMMO WOULD SET OFF THE METAL DETECTOR!
As for the ‘ghost guns,’ do a web search where one of these weapons was used. You will find virtually nothing.
Moving on . . .
SB 554 allows localities, schools, and airports to ban CHL holders from their property and any location near their property. The bill increases the fee for a CHL from $50 to $100.00 and renewals to $75.00. If you pick up a family member from the airport you can be charged with a Class C felony if you have a firearm even with a CHL.
Best wishes to “localities” schools, and airports should someone with nefarious intentions come around. Like if Mark Dreher was scoping out a 5th grader to kidnap.
SB 585 repeals Oregon’s preemption law allowing any locality to create and enforce any gun law they choose.
Fortunately there are 2A Sanctuary counties here.
Sheriff’s in these counties said they aren’t enforcing any of the gun laws that they deem ridiculous. Which is almost everything listed here.
SB 604 requires a permit to purchase firearms. The bill requires mandatory training, background checks, and fees. The bill requires safety training from the “National Firearms Association”. (Not a misprint) The permit must be renewed every 5 years.
Never heard of the NFA? Me either. That’s probably because IT’S IN FUCKING CANADA! Since when do we let Canadians dictate our laws?
As you know, pursuant to the rules imposed by the House Speaker and the Senate President, you will no longer be permitted to testify against these bills in the Capitol building. Remote testimony during the interim sessions was mostly a failure and people who signed up to testify often could not. Republican legislators who had comments that the chairs of the committees disagreed with were shut off. Do not expect to be treated differently.
See? It’s coming.
So what does all this mean? The Democrats still have a super majority. They do not need a single Republican vote to pass any of these bills, and except for the permit to purchase bill, they have been trying to pass all this stuff for years. So they are determined. They are also blood thirsty and vindictive. The only reason some of this did not get passed last session was because the Republicans walked out. We have no way of knowing if they will again. Walking out is very costly and subjects Republicans to arrest.
God bless them.
For the last year the State Police and Sheriffs have used covid as an excuse to either not do their jobs (conducting background checks and issuing CHL’s) or to do them very badly.
Maybe so, but there was no Chink virus when I tried to buy 7 years ago, and they still did nothing.
As we have learned, nothing in the law compels Sheriffs to accept CHL applications and nothing in the permit-to-purchase law compels them to accept applications to purchase.
While the law does require the State Police to provide an estimate of time it will take them to complete a background check for a current firearms purchase, they frequently ignore that law and face no liability for doing so. There is little reason to believe that these same practices will not apply to the permit-to-purchase law.
True! I asked them when I might get an answer and they said, “We don’t know.”
It is impossible for us to predict if the Democrats will be more successful eliminating your rights this session than they have in past. (The Democrats in the US Congress are also introducing an avalanche of anti-gun bills.) But it would be prudent to consider it likely and if you plan to own any firearms in the future, and you can find them, maybe now would be the time to acquire them. The same is true if you are considering an “unfinished” receiver purchase.
“If we can find them.” It’s not so much the firearms we can’t find but the ammunition that without, makes the firearm nothing more than a tool to bludgeon with . . . unless it has a bayonet which will probably be illegal everywhere soon as well. It already has been in some states.
I might just invest in the still legal flamethrower.
