| 02.10.14The snow may be melting away from the Capitol steps, but the snow jobs from the liberty haters are coming as fast and furious as the guns being run to Mexican cartels from Obama and Holder.
Today we received this absurd piece from Senator Michael Dembrow.
Here Dembrow, who has advocated for warrantless searches of gun owners’ homes,and a ban on all modern firearms, claims that SB 1551, (Floyd Prozanski’s gun registration bill) “does not create a gun registry – it simply expands the current system…”
But of course, the current system is a gun registry. And this is expanding it. To suggest that collecting all the personal information of the giver and receiver of a firearm andthe make, model, caliber and serial number, is not a “gun registry” (of the type used over and over throughout modern history to confiscate guns) is ridiculous on its face. It is the very definition of “registry.”
Dembrow defends his deceitful assertion by saying : “State law prohibits the police from keeping transaction records for more than five years, and in most cases the record is destroyed after ten days of approval.”
Even if we believed that the State Police destroyed records in 5 years, it’s bizarre to suggest this is not a “registry.” But we have no reason to believe they actually dodestroy the records.
Now let’s consider his comment “in most cases the record is destroyed after ten days of approval.”
As our friend Chris Cochran pointed out in a recent Facebook post, this makes exactly no sense. If records are destroyed in 10 days, then there is no way the state can say you failed to complete a background check.
Ten days after your “transfer,” the records magically “evaporate.” So how can the state ever accuse you of failing to conduct a check if they have destroyed any record that you did?
It cannot. That’s another reason this whole thing is a charade.
Let’s pretend the OSP actually do destroy these records. (In conversations OFF has had with the previous head of the ID Unit, he could not explain how or when records were destroyed.) How long do you think it will take before Senators Dembrow and Prozanski and Burdick and Bates and Roblan start calling for the closing of the “records destruction loophole?” We give it one session after they pass this registration scheme.
But there’s more. Dembrow also said “SB 1551 does not prevent a person from loaning a gun to a friend, and it does not prevent gun ranges from renting firearms to customers.”
Let’s look at what Dembrow’s own lawyers “Legislative Counsel” said about “loaning guns to a friend.” What follows is their opinion:
“In the scenario of a person loaning a firearm to a nonrelative for an indeterminate length of time, we think that a court would likely view this as a gift. As noted above, the Oregon Supreme Court has stated that a gift is made when the donor gives the donor’s property to another person without any compensation in return. Therefore, for example, when a man gives his firearm to his girlfriend to use for protection without any compensation in return or any sort of expectation of a return date, a court would most likely see the transfer as a gift that would require a criminal background check under an amended ORS 166.436.”
As for his assertion that the bill would not prevent gun ranges from renting firearms to customers, here is the definition of a “transfer” from the bill:
“Transfer” means the sale, gift or lease of a firearm.
The bill does not define “lease” so we will provide the definition.
“…a contract renting land, buildings, etc., to another; a contract or instrument conveying property to another for a specified period or for a period determinable at the will of either lessor or lessee in consideration of rent or other compensation.”
Now exactly how Dembrow concludes that renting a firearm does not fall under that definition is anyone’s guess. Oh, by the way, Dembrow lists his occupation as “English instructor.” You may want to ask for your money back if your child goes to PCC.
The truth is, this bill is nothing but another step in the march towards the elimination of your rights.
Dembow’s lies are quite in keeping with his fellow traveler Floyd Prozanski, who insisted he knew nothing about how Ceasefire Oregon got advance notice of the hearing on SB 1551, in spite of the fact that only Prozanski and his staff had that information.
These people’s agenda is clear. They will tell any lie and stack any deck to move forward their goal of a completely disarmed population.
Don’t let them.
If you want to share your feelings with Dembrow you can email him here:senatordembrow@gmail.com or here:
Sen.MichaelDembrow@state.or.us, or call him at (503) 986-1723. |
