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11.18.15

In the wake of the recent attacks on Paris, it’s no surprise that Americans are responding by arming themselves. Even local police are recognizing that the dangers of a terrorist attack are massive. And of course, the current administration is aiding and abetting the terrorists by welcoming them to the US.

Our own, unelected, governor has signaled that  Muslim “refugees” are welcome here in Oregon. Behind this backdrop, the battle to retain our gun rights continues, even though the events in France prove the dangers of disarming the civilian population.

Last night KATU TV did a short piece on the never ending efforts of some on the left to eliminate gun rights, now in the guise of copying Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Of course the analogy is absurd. MADD never promoted punishing all drivers for the behavior of a few. They never proposed bans on cars or restrictions on horsepower. They never said you should be arrested if someone else drove drunk in your car. They never demanded background checks to buy a car. Instead they addressed dangerous behavior. 

KATU did briefly cover an issue that the mainstream press has willfully ignored for many months, the absurdity of the “background check” system and its total failure in stopping prohibited people from getting guns.

Over and over we have seen the stats that show when prohibited persons attempt to purchase a gun, nothing happens to them. KATU showed the OSP’s own stats proving this.

Ironically today the latest stats from OSP came out. There were 26,594 background checks run in October. There were 223 denials.  170 of those denials were “felons”, according to OSP. Total arrests? Four!

And as crazy as that sounds, keep in mind  that is four more than were arrested in September when 126 felons tried to buy guns. It’s four more than were arrested in August when 113 felons attempted to buy guns. (In August the State Police did not even include a column for arrests in their charts). It’s four more than were arrested in July when 104 felons attempted to buy guns!

Clearly the only purpose of this system is to create roadblocks and restrictions on the law abiding, but with less than 1% of all transactions being “private” and run through gun dealers it’s clear that not a lot of Oregonians are complying with the Prozanski/Hoyle gun grab.

11.10.15

As you know, SB 941, the Prozanski/Hoyle gun owner registration bill was passed with an “emergency clause.”

This is the process that races the bill into effect and essentially eliminates the public’s ability to refer it to a vote of the people.

There are many games the establishment in Salem plays to limit citizens’s involvement, but this is one of the most egregious.

“Emergency” clauses are supposed to be used for “the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety” but the process is commonly abused with “emergency” clauses being attached to bills dealing with subjects as mundane as vanity license plates and interior decorators.

Real emergencies are rare, abuses of the process are common. It’s time to put a stop to the fabricated “emergencies” and return power to the people.  And you can help.

Please visit  http://nofakeemergencies.com/   to learn more about this absurd game and sign the petition to place a measure on the ballot to stop the charade.

You can download a petition on line and mail it in.  Please share this information with your friends, family and neighbors who are also tired of having their voices silenced by fake emergencies.  This is a constitutional amendment, so we need every signature we can get.  Thank you.

11.04.15

In another stunning rebuke to the billionaire funded, anti-rights crazies, the people of Coos County have passed a Second Amendment Preservation Ordinance that nullifies dangerous and unconstitutional laws like SB 941.

Coos County Commissioner Bob Main is a strong supporter of gun rights, but the other two Commissioners, John Sweet and Melissa Cribben have served as nothing but road blocks to the defense of liberty, so the people went around them.

This effort, led by Coos County resident Rob Taylor, is one more nail in the coffin of lies spewed by the supporters of more restrictions on your civil liberties.

While the likes of Val Hoyle and Floyd Prozanski constantly parrot the false statistic that almost “90%” of Oregonians want more of their rights taken away, this measure passed with over 60% of the vote.

In a statement to OFF, Taylor said:

“There were many people involved in the process of gathering the signatures needed to put this measure on the ballot and all of them deserve a huge thank you for taking the time to defend the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Several of us who had worked together before decided back in February 2015 that Coos County should pass some law to counter the Background Check bill, SB941.  This group of individuals approached the Board of Commissioners to ask them to enact a Second Amendment Preservation Ordinance, but Commissioners Cribbins and Sweet refused.  Since I am not a person to take no for an answer, especially from my employees/representatives, I organized a petition committee.  Over the summer, we gathered enough signatures to put the ordinance on the ballot ourselves, and the county clerk approved the initiative for the November election,

 Yesterday, election day, our measure won the election and now, The Second Amendment Preservation Ordinance is an official part of county code.  Coos County is a “Sanctuary County” for legal gun owners. “

Taylor added:”Moral of the story, never underestimate what a small, determined, well-organized group of individuals can accomplish.” 

To which we can only say…”amen.”

Predictably, the well funded and shrill extremists that live to destroy the Constitution have attacked the ordinance based on…the Constitution!

In a statement demonstrating once again just how delusional these people are, Ceasefire Oregon said:

“The fringe wing of the gun lobby has truly done a disservice to the taxpayers of Coos County. Clearly, counties cannot nullify state or federal law and they have no power to appoint the county sheriff to interpret the U.S. Constitution. This measure tells criminals they can buy guns in Coos County with impunity and puts the local taxpayers at risk for expensive lawsuits.”

There probably is not enough time or space to dissect the sheer lunacy of that statement. The “gun lobby” did a “disservice to the taxpayers?”
The “taxpayers” passed the ordinance!
The “gun lobby” was a group of residents.
But it should not be a surprise when cult followers dig in as their cherished illusions crumble.

Robyn Thomas, Executive Director of the “Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence,” said the measure “displays a gross misunderstanding of the U.S. Constitution.” In a comical Huffington Post story, far left Portland lawyer Charlie Hinkle (yes he is still around it seems) said “Of course local officials can’t decide what laws are constitutional. That’s why Kim Davis went to jail, Even the president can’t decide what’s constitutional — that’s why a federal court enjoined his executive orders regarding immigration.” (Sure, tell us about the president Charlie.)

But Hinkle, Thomas and their fellow travelers have been deafeningly silent on Oregon’s violation of Federal drug laws and numerous Oregon cities openly refusing to enforce federal illegal immigration statutes.

Shameless hypocrisy is the calling card of the liars who work overtime to attack your rights.

We want to say a resounding THANK YOU to the people of Coos County for standing up to the bullying tactics of frauds like Hoyle and Prozanski who have shown allegiance only to out of state money. And of course, a very special congratulations to Rob Taylor and everyone involved in this incredible effort. You folks led the way.

Rob Taylor is the founder of CoosCountyWatchdog.com, which is a virtual network of local activists.

10.19.15

The utter insanity that is the anti-gun movement continues to rear its ugly head in ways both mindless and dangerous.

Today the Brady Campaign sent out an email by Dan Gross  saying “90 %” of Americans want more failed gun control!

That number is both absurdly fictitious and inflated daily.  No doubt soon we will be told that 100% of Americans, including almost all gun owners, want increased attacks on their rights. It’s ridiculous of course, but you can bet the media will be parroting that number soon while never making the slightest attempt to verify it.

What’s even more bizarre is Gross’s contention that “I know first-hand what the families of the Umpqua Community College victims are facing. My brother was shot in the head during a mass shooting…”

This statement was made in a new demand for “background checks!”  The rest of that sentence tells the story however. “My brother was shot in the head during a mass shooting at the Empire State Building.”

Yes, the Empire State Building, in New York City which has had “universal” background checks for generations and some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country.  And while this simply proves the failure of these dangerous and unconstitutional laws, you’d better believe the courts are sucking this garbage up and spitting it back out while working overtime to end your 2nd Amendment rights.

Today we received the US Appeals Court 2nd Circuit’s response to a lawsuit filed in opposition to the draconian and outrageous anti-gun laws passed in New York and Connecticut.

The court upheld almost every aspect of both states’ anti-gun laws!

In a decision that demonstrated just how little the judges understand about firearms they said:

“As for the other enumerated military‐style features—such as the flash suppressor, protruding  grip, and barrel shrouds—New York and Connecticut have determined, as did the U.S. Congress, that the “net effect of these military combat features is a capability for lethality—more wounds, more serious, in more victims—far beyond that of other firearms in general, including other semiautomatic guns.” (sic)

At the same time, the Court admitted that American’s rights to have firearms for “self defense” was protected! We are totally at a loss to understand how “lethal” a self defense firearm is allowed to be.

But it get’s worse.  The Court went on:

“Indeed, plaintiffs explicitly contend that these features improve a firearm’s “accuracy,” “comfort,” and “utility.”This circumlocution is, as  Chief Judge Skretny observed, a milder way of saying that these features make the weapons more deadly.”

That’s right friends, a US Appeals Court actually believes that  “protruding grips” and “barrel shrouds” make firearms “more deadly.”

It becomes more painfully obvious every day that we cannot look to the courts to protect our rights.  People who reach these kinds of conclusions have clearly chosen to ignore the plain language of the US Constitution and create rulings that are obviously nonsense. They also ignore previous Supreme Court decisions that say only military firearms are protected!

In light of the Court’s nonsensical ruling, and the current makeup of our legislature, you can rest assured there will be a new wave of attacks on gun rights in Oregon. We’ve already told you how one organization is using the UCC shootings to beat the drum for an almost complete elimination of privately owned firearms in Oregon.

If you are not a member of OFF, now would be a good time to become one.  If you already are, thank you for your support.

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10.15.15

The anti-gun crazies have fired up their well funded anti-rights machine again.  

To no one’s surprise they are using the murders in Roseburg as a vehicle to demand a virtual end to gun rights in Oregon.

Here is a sample of their demands: 

“Central registration of all firearm owners and their weapons.”

“A 28-day waiting period on all firearm purchases.”

“Require that weapons be stored unloaded, in a gun safe, with a trigger lock.”

“Ban any clip or magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds.”

And that’s just for starters!

The resistance began in Roseburg when Obama came to exploit the deaths at UCC to promote more gun restrictions.

Those efforts were inspiring but there is much more that needs to be done.

Please visit this page for details and our new auto mailer message and take action today.

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The battle is just beginning. Thank you for your activism.

09.13.15

The Oregon Secretary of State has refused to qualify the Floyd Prozanski recall for a vote.

The recall committee turned in over 10,000 signatures. 8415 signatures were required.

According to a story in the Eugene Register Guard, “Two separate statistical samplings done Friday by the state Elections Division found the recall failed to meet the required 84 percent verification rate, however. One sampling estimated there were 8,208 valid signatures, the other 8,062, the Elections Division said.”

In a prepared statement, Prozanski said Friday that he was “grateful” for his constituents’ “continued support.”

The Secretary of State said the recall fell short by about 200 votes. This is almost exactly the number of signatures that the recall committee held back from gun stores that had been the target of a complaint by the Bloomberg funded opponents of the campaign. Bloomberg’s people would go into locations that had signature sheets available and attempt to ensnare the gun store personnel into making technical violations like stepping away from the signature sheets momentarily. They then filed specious and false complaints with the Secretary of State accusing volunteers of felonies.

They also interfered with gathering efforts on the part of paid signature gatherers. It’s interesting to note that a complaint filed by the recall campaign against the Bloomberg flunkies has so far been ignored by the same Secretary of State who refused to certify the recall, the same anti-gun Secretary who was appointed by an anti-gun governor, who herself was not elected to the job.

Needless to say, Prozanski and the Bloomberg cabal have claimed that this is a “victory” for gun control. However, nowhere do they mention the over 10,000 people who sought to have Prozanski removed from office, nor do they mention that the commissioners in both counties that Prozanski’s Senate District spans have passed resolutions against enforcing Prozanski’s anti right’s bill.

Ironically, in the failed complaint filed by Bloomberg’s lackeys, they included a photograph of a signature sheet that was on the counter of one of the shops targeted for harassment. The last signature visible on the sheet seeking to oust Prozanski belonged to the sheriff of one of the counties in his district!

How much Bloomberg spent to disrupt the campaign is unknown since they do not report those figures although the recall campaign is required to.

In a press release, Pam Duffy, who was the chief petitioner said “The fact that we got so close sends a strong message to arrogant, out of touch politicians like Prozanski that the people are energized enough to act, especially considering 17% of petition signers were Democrats and another 15% were non affiliated voters.We are considering all of our options to appeal the official results or the possibility of a recount”.

This recall was a tremendous effort against enormous odds. It faced the limitless funds of a New York billionaire and the reprehensible tactics of his followers. Even so, it collected over 10,000 signatures and scared the pants off those who simultaneously belittled it as having no chance and then spent vast sums to defeat it. Much was learned and future efforts will have the knowledge gained in this campaign to do an even more efficient job. We still face the real problem that the votes are counted by people with a big stake in the outcome, but the campaign accomplished more than the establishment ever thought it could. Our sincere thanks to everyone who supported this very important battle.

09.10.15

The effort to recall anti-rights extremist, Floyd Prozanski, had another victory today.

The Secretary of State dismissed, at least temporarily, a specious complaint filed by Bloomberg stooges.

The complainants are part of the well funded New York machine that has been working overtime to undermine the rights of Oregonians in exchange for a paycheck from ex New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg.

Bloomberg sent his hired hacks into locations that had recall petitions where they attempted to trick petition gatherers into making minor, technical mistakes (like walking away from petition sheets for a moment) so they could file complaints against the recall campaign.

Today, in spite of Bloomberg’s millions, the Secretary of State said:

“After a review of the information submitted, the Elections Division has insufficient evidence to indicate a violation of election law for the signature allegations outlined above.”

The anti-rights fringe has an unlimited checkbook thanks to Bloomberg, but they have not been able to spend enough to crush the spirit of Oregonians who have stood against the tide of the leftists that are trying to steal every right Oregonians and Americans cherish.

We have a long way to go and we may not have an official count of signatures on the recall campaign until Monday. But for every one of you who has signed or contributed to this effort, we thank you. We have come much farther than the establishment ever thought we could.

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09.05.15

Yesterday, the Recall Floyd Prozanski Campaign turned in the last of over 10,000 signatures to the Secretary of State.

The required number to force a vote on removing Prozanski from office is 8415.

Prozanski’s record of protecting rapists and felons while enabling illegal aliens, coupled with his outrageous attacks on the rights and privacy of gun owners, was enough to convince many people in his district that he simply has to go.

It is now up to the Secretary of State to “validate” the signatures. Given that our current, unelected, Secretary of State is a hard core leftist who was chosen by an anti-gun, unelected governor and that the billionaire-backed, anti-gun groups have poured in vast amounts of money and resources into attacking this campaign, this will be the hardest part.

The recall campaign lost many valuable signatures as a result of the harassment and attacks by Bloomberg backed flunkies who filed specious complaints after attempting to trick volunteers into making minor technical mistakes in the signature gathering process.

Even when all those signatures were removed, the campaign was able to collect many more signatures than needed.

This has been an unprecedented effort. Many, many people worked extremely hard to get this done. To all those people we extend our most sincere gratitude. Many of you gave generously to this very expensive campaign. We simply could not have provided all the help we did to the recall effort without your generosity.  To you we also say, “Thank you, you made it happen.” (Not a single other “gun rights organization” contributed a dime or so much as an email. Even the Republican Party refused to support this critical battle.)

Prozanski is only one of many deceitful haters of liberty in our legislature. If he is successfully removed from office, it will only be a first step. But to have simply gotten this far sends a powerful message about how strongly Oregonians feel about their liberty. No matter what happens now (and the count is up to an official who opposes our rights) you have shown Prozanski and his fellow travelers that they are not stealing our rights without a fight, and that we will never stop protecting our liberty. Never.

08.26.15

If you are unfortunate enough to have a TV, you have no doubt been hammered with Bloomberg purchased ads promoting the Prozanski/Hoyle gun registration law.

The ad features a former Portland Police Chief (and Bloomberg shill) spewing lies before a background of soft-focus child actors playing in a park.

Since the chief sponsors of the bill (Prozanski and Hoyle) are shameless liars, why shouldn’t the ad be a collection of lies?

But why would they feel the need to dump millions into ads for a bill they have already passed? Is it because they are fearful that as people start finding out exactly how bad this bill is there will be a backlash?

Well there is a backlash and it’s been building.

Today we received a new county resolution opposing SB 941.  Douglas County has added itself to the growing list of Counties and Sheriffs going on record against SB 941.  Of course, the liars who supported this attack on your rights continue to claim that almost 90% of Oregonians are eager to have their privacy invaded, their safety compromised and their property tracked for future confiscation.  (Except Val Hoyle who recently dropped the number to “almost 80%”.)

With most counties on record opposing 941 and some saying they simply will not enforce it, it must be getting harder and harder for the Bloomberg stooges to trot out their fiction with a straight face.  But if you have unlimited funds you can at least run an endless series of ads.

With Douglas County on board, and Lane County having also rejected SB 941, bill sponsor and chief gun grabber, Floyd Prozanski is in an uncomfortable position. You see, Prozanski’s district covers parts of both Lane and Douglas Counties. That means that the commissions in both his counties have stood up to his lies and shady maneuvers.  But more importantly, it is those very commissioners who will be choosing Prozanski’s replacement should he lose his recall election.

The Recall Prozanski campaign is going strong and there is still time to sign the petition to send Floyd back to his day job “prosecuting” traffic tickets. If you live in his district, or know people who do, please visit the recall website to sign a petition. And please consider any support you can give OFFPAC to fund this effort.

Meanwhile, in Coos County, pro-rights activists have bypassed their county commission, which refused to stand up for residents, and have placed a pro-Second Amendment ordinance on the ballot for the November election.  This is the kind of action that grass roots activists can take when their elected representatives are too cowardly or too lazy to act on their own.

This battle is far from over. The people are stepping up.  We have a long way to go, but with each passing day the resistance to the tyranny of the Bloomberg flunkies is growing.