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 06.26.11
ANTI-GUN BILL SCHEDULED FOR VOTE TOMORROW. |
On Monday, June 27th,the Oregon House is scheduled to vote
on HB
2792. (That does not mean it will actually be voted
on. Anything can happen.)
In its original
form, as introduced by House Rep and pro-liberty heroine,
Kim Thatcher, the bill would have recognized the concealed handgun
licenses of other states. Now all its original language has
been stripped out and it bears no resemblance to the bill as
introduced.
After the bill was "gut and stuffed" by Senator Floyd
Prozanski, the Senate passed it but the House refused to agree
to the new and now unrecognizable bill. So a "conference
committee" was appointed to iron out the differences.
The conference committee agreed to all the changes the House
refused to agree to with one minor and meaningless change.
This mangled bill is scheduled to be voted on tomorrow on the
House floor.
In its current form the bill does provide the language
we asked for to define how a handgun could be lawfully carried
on a snowmobile, ATV or motorcycle, but in exchange for adding
that language (which was stripped from a bill which would have
addressed that issue alone) Prozanski added the poison bill
he promised at the beginning of the session. He added language
which hopelessly muddles and complicates the current law dealing
with how a person can get seek rights restoration if they had
a very old felony conviction.
Since the beginning of 2010, people with felony convictions
could appeal to a court and request rights restoration. If they
could convince the court that they were now upstanding citizens
and no threat, they could have their rights to own a gun restored
if the court agreed.
Frankly, the new law has worked well. Dangerous people have
neither sought nor received rights restoration and people who
made a dumb mistake 30 years ago, and have since been productive
members of society, had the opportunity to make a case for themselves.
Now, that is in jeopardy of disappearing. The gut and stuffed
version of HB 2792 will make the rights restoration process
as much of a mess has HB
2853 did in 2009.
As much as we want our motorcycle language to become law, and
as much as sportsmen and motorcycle riders deserve to have clear
laws, we think adding this poison bill is a mistake. We regret
that the Republicans on the conference committee agreed to it.
Please consider contacting
your House Rep and telling them that HB 2792 is a dangerous
and counterproductive capitulation. Thanks for your activism. |
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