03.20.15
First Pro-Gun Victory.
Yesterday your voice was heard loud and clear. HB 2628, which was sold as a bill to eliminate fees for persons requesting stalking orders, but contained a huge anti-gun provision, was amended to remove the anti-gun language. If you are interested, the amendment can be seen here. Thanks to all who took the time to contact the Chair of the Committee, Representative Jeff Barker. (This bill is expected to affect a grand total of 4 people a year.)
Yesterday, Ceasefire Oregon sent out an email asking their supporters to “Thank Jeff Barker for supporting background checks! Please call or email Rep. Jeff Barker, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, and thank him for supporting the expected bill, to close background check loopholes in Oregon.”
Well it looks like Penny Okamoto is hitting the sake again. As with almost of all of what CFO says, there is not a word of truth to this. Rep. Barker has been one of the staunchest supporters of gun rights during the entire time he has served in the legislature. Nothing has changed. When you got nothing, make stuff up.
Representative Barker does deserve thanks however, for standing up for your rights. Please consider a note to him letting him know you appreciate his continued support. Rep.JeffBarker@state.or.us
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Second Pro-Gun Victory
Marion County has added itself to the long list of counties taking a stand for your rights. The Marion County Commissioners have passed a resolution in support of the Second Amendment. We welcome them and thank them for their stand.
Not all commissioners are as courageous. Lane County Commissioner Jay Bozievich, who campaigned as a pro Second Amendment candidate, and who scheduled a pro-gun rights resolution only to flip flop and unschedule it, has belittled the entire process of counties taking a stand. Bozievich had told us, after removing the pro-gun resolution from the schedule, that he preferred to have his “lobbyists” work on Floyd Prozanski to change his mind about the coming bill to force universal gun-owner registration. Now that’s a pretty absurd position, but when we contacted him recently, after multiple news reports about the coming legislation, and asked how the lobbying efforts were going, he responded with “Fine how are those resolutions working for you? You should listen to KPNW’s interview with Prozanski. He totally blew them off.” It is, of course, incomprehensible that an actual elected official would think that because someone as militantly anti-gun as Prozanski would not admit that your efforts and the hard work of all the county commissioners were having an effect, that they are not. Lane County needs commissioners who are not so disconnected from reality.
Your tax dollars at work.
On March 24, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be hearing SB 913. This bill outlaws the sale of ivory. Now, keep in mind, the importation of ivory is already illegal. This bill makes it illegal to sell ivory you already own, not matter how old it is. It is a new low for stupidity and sure won’t keep any elephants safe. Not only would this affect things like the ivory grips on your grandpa’s revolver, but anything that has ivory in it. An amendment has been introduced with exceptions for guns and knives, but the exceptions are ridiculous. The gun or knife would have to be “less than 20% ivory by volume” and you would have to document that the gun or knife is “not less than 100 years old.”
Ivory is defined as “all or part of a tusk or tooth, in raw form or worked form, from an elephant or mammoth.” Yes, a “mammoth.” So, all you folks with mammoth teeth… turn ’em in.
The chair of the committee is, of course, Floyd Prozanski. We can’t think of a message to him that sums it up better than “Dear Floyd… SB 913. Are you kidding?”
