Oregon
Firearms Federation supporters have received, or soon will receive,
a Political
Action Committee mailing from us urging them to take advantage
of Oregon's PAC tax credit law to support gun rights at no cost
to them. Many will also be receiving a letter asking for donations
to the political action committee of a group called "Oregon
Gun Owners."
"Oregon Gun Owners" is not affiliated in any way with
OFF. "Oregon Gun Owners" is the organization that
helped write HB2535
in 1999. This bill was intended to end private sales at gun
shows and require that your firearms be kept locked up. When
OFF killed that bill in the 1999 session, "Oregon Gun Owners"
attempted to place a measure on the 2000 ballot to achieve similar
ends, but failed to collect enough signatures. A similar measure
authored by Ginny Burdick made the ballot and was passed into
law as Ballot Measure 5.
We have received a copy of the mailing done by "Oregon
Gun Owners." It was sent to a woman with a CHL whose
name appears on no mailing lists for gun owners except the Clackamas
County Sheriff's CHL list. It was mailed to a PO box that she
uses for no other purpose except her CHL.
A recent news
story indicated that Portland law firm O'Donnell,Clark &
Crew was requesting the names of license holders on behalf of
an "unnamed group."
Apparently they were successful in getting the names of Clackamas
County residents.We do not know what other counties
may have made this information available. (An associate
of O'Donnell and Clark was part of a team of lawyers that represented
OFF in a lawsuit several years ago.We do not support their current
efforts.)
As you know,
some sheriffs are attempting to safeguard the names of license
holders in their counties and began their efforts after O'Donnell
and Clark made the request for the names. We will leave
it you to connect the dots.
Once again, gun rights supporters should know that "Oregon
Gun Owners" has no connection to OFF in any way. OFF fully
supports the efforts of sheriffs to protect the private information
of CHL holders in the current climate and warns Clackamas County
residents that their information is public knowledge and available
to anyone who asks, for any purpose.
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