GUN BANS MOVE FORWARD
04.03.2025
Wednesday’s Senate floor session began, once again, with a motion by the Republican leader to suspend the rule requiring the reading of entire bills before voting on them. In his words “we’re ready to vote.”
Of course, by doing so he also helped to speed up the Democrat’s agendas to destroy the state. So not only are they staying on the floor and ensuring the passage of bad bills, they are making it happen faster.
At that session the Senate passed SB 947, James Manning’s inane attempt to rewrite history and eliminate the concept of the citizen’s militia.
During the hearing for this bill Manning made it clear (well at least as far as he can make anything clear) that he had paranoid delusions of gangs of militiamen roaming the state to hunt down and kill minorities.
(This is not really a surprise since both he and Lew Fredrick recently made speeches on the Senate floor attacking the Trump Administration for removing black people from Arlington Cemetery. Another paranoid delusion that could be debunked in a 30 second online search.)
On the Senate floor however, Manning changed his tune and falsely claimed the bill was about “honoring National Guardsmen.” A blatant lie.
Submitted testimony on this bill was 100% in opposition. An interesting accomplishment, and needless to say no one from any branch of the Military showed up or submitted testimony in support of it.
After Manning’s incoherent floor speech explaining the bill, Senator Mike McLane rose to ask exactly what the point of the bill was. Manning’s rambling response just left people more confused. He did however slip up and admit to the real purpose of the bill with an oblique and nonsensical reference to “the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters.”
The bill passed exactly along party lines with every Democrat voting yes and all Republicans voting no.
The bill now moves to the House where the process begins again and once again Manning will show up to lie about its intent. Manning is the poster child for the wisdom of ending DEI programs.
Today, the House Judiciary Committee heard HB 3884, another bait and switch bill that was “gut and stuffed” minutes before the hearing began and long after most people had submitted testimony.
The new bill pretends to be about suicide prevention by allowing gun dealers to “hold” people’s guns for them if they are feeling suicidal.
Speaking in support was the head of the “Gun Owner’s Caucus of the Democrat Party of Oregon”. As far as we know he is also the only member.
Also in support was the President of the Oregon State Shooting Association. What neither of them bothered to mention while testifying in support of the bill was that dealers cannot take guns into their possession without entering them into their “bound book” and making them part of their inventory, unless they are briefly in for gun smithing.
That means that if a person does “voluntarily” relinquish their firearm to a gun dealer, when all the other gun bills pass, they cannot get it back without a gun safety class with live fire, a 2 month wait for a permit, three background checks and a 72 hour waiting period. But that assumes there are still any FFL’s left in business which is not likely.
It’s not real helpful when people claiming to represent gun owners are testifying on behalf of the people who want to end gun ownership.
Next Monday there will be an avalanche of gun bills being heard in the Senate and House Judiciary Committees. These Committees are scheduled to meet at the same time in different rooms just to further impede your ability to participate.
In a recent interview on KPNW, House Republican Leader Christine Drazan blamed the voters for these bills moving forward saying they need to “make their voices heard.” But as noted above, voters made their voices heard when 100% of them opposed SB 947 and it passed with no Democrat voting against it. Furthermore Democrats are using “gut and stuff” tactics to change the bills at the very last minute so the public doesn’t even know what will be in the bills until it’s too late.
The reality is, voters are not being heard and it’s not because they are not speaking. It’s because they are being ignored. An email to Drazan recently received this reply:
Your message
To: Rep Drazan
Subject: Oregon’s ban on gun sales (HB 3075)
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2025 1:50:59 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
was deleted without being read on Wednesday, March 26, 2025
The voters hired Republican legislators to protect their rights. Their written testimony is being ignored, when they take time off from work and travel long distances to testify in person they are given 2 minutes max if any time at all.
Drazan should not be blaming voters for her failures to stand up to these attacks.
We will keep you informed and keep reminding the Republicans that helping the Democrats pass destructive legislation was not what we hired them to do