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The 2025 Regular Session Is Over.

The 2025 Regular Session Is Over.


07.07.2025

Unlike many Republicans, we are not taking a victory lap.

In spite of the dump of press releases from Republican legislators, Oregon’s law abiding gun owners, once again, got screwed while criminals and crazy people got a big boost.

Not every evil and vindictive anti-rights bill passed, but only getting screwed half as much as promised is not a victory, no matter what they tell you.

SB 243 passed. And it is a terrible, outrageous, hateful bill designed to do nothing but hurt the people who (maybe foolishly) play by the rules. 

And it could have been stopped.

So let’s summarize what this insane attack does.

First it outlaws an entire category of firearm’s accessories the legislators have called “rapid fire activators.” These include perfectly legal devices like forced reset triggers but also include items that have always been illegal, like “Glock switches.”

Unlike other attacks on your rights and your property, 243 not only makes your possessions illegal, it provides no compensation for taking them from you and no option to lawfully dispose of them.  Had they included these options we would still be forcefully opposed to this mean spirited nonsense but without them it’s clear their intentions are just straight up evil.

If you bought one of these items you will become a criminal (possibly a felon) the minute the law goes into effect. That would be Sept 26th. There is no legal option to transfer these even to a person in a free state. If you own it you can go to prison.

The constant repeated mantra of the sick people pushing this insanity was that these devices are only used to commit mass murders. House Rep, and militant gun hater, (except for himself) Paul Evans, repeatedly said “Anyone who needs one of these shouldn’t have one.”  You could say Evans misses the point. But that would be giving him too much credit.

No one “needs” one of these devices.  But thousands of people legally bought and used them lawfully, because they wanted to.  And because in America you should be allowed to do things that hurt no one and are legal because you want to without having to explain yourself to fatuous hypocrites like Evans.

Democrat Senators Broadman and Prozanski pounded the “mass murder” drum endlessly but for some reason,  while constantly regurgitating that line of nonsense, could not provide a single example of a law abiding Oregonian suddenly and inexplicably gunning people down with a binary trigger.

All we heard over and over and over, like the loop of annoying music on an ice cream truck, was that they were used in the Las Vegas shooting.  And frankly even that is doubtful given the astonishing amount of unanswered questions about that event which have now been flushed down the memory hole like former the January 6th bomber mystery.

Oddly, and perhaps comically, far left Democrat Senator Lew Fredricks, from north Portland, may have spoken the quiet part out loud when he noted that he does not get concerned about a person with a rifle in Burns. (Because he thinks they are going “bird” hunting.) But when a person in HIS neighborhood has a rifle he assumes they hunting people.  While Fredrick correctly addressed the problem, he still supported attacking the rights of people who are not the problem… or from his neighborhood.

But don’t assume that the Democrats who pushed this latest act of hatred and outright theft are alone in their willingness to screw you over.  Republican Senators repeatedly noted that they too wanted to make criminals out of law abiding Oregon gun owners if only that part of the bill was on the floor by itself.

Of course, there is more.  SB 243 also tells all the people who jumped through expensive hoops to obey the law and get a concealed handgun license (which is not even needed in most states) that they are chumps. Because while they may have demonstrated that they are safe, law abiding, and willing to play by the rules, they are going to be treated like trash. One more time.

Now, any tiny agency, board, or rabble of state bureaucrats can ban armed CHL holders from their meetings. Why? Well because a collection of neurotic women in tee shirts and Democrat nanny staters said so.  Throughout the debate on this bill, none of these charlatans could provide a single example of a CHL holder shooting up a cemetery board meeting. But darn it, those men with guns make us uncomfortable. So our lapdogs in the legislature are going to strip their rights away.

The sheer lunacy of this move would be obvious to a 5 year old.  There is no provision in the bill to provide any security to any agency that bans gun owners. There is no provision to provide metal detectors or swarms of armed cops like the clowns in Salem have around the clock. What this moronic bill does is advertise that a location is defenseless so if you do happen to be insane or a member in good standing of your local thug antifa chapter you know you can walk right in and wreak havoc.

Stupid?  Yes.  Counterproductive?  You bet.  But that’s the way we roll in Oregon.

And while it would be tempting to blame all this on carnival barkers like Broadman and Prozanski and Grayber (who believes we need to ban bump stocks and CHL holders from public meetings because .. well suicide) keep in mind that this latest attack would not have been possible without the active participation of the Oregon Republicans. 

We told you which House Republicans showed up to be the doormats for the Democrats and pass 243 here.  When the bill then passed through the Senate every single Republican Senator except Kim Thatcher showed up to help pass it! And remember, in both the House and Senate, the Republicans who helped pass this dreadful assault on you, your family, your property and maybe even your freedom risked NOTHING by walking out. And yet, there they were once again, giving speeches, expressing their outrage and then folding up like a 4 dollar hide-a-bed. It’s disgraceful.

We repeatedly heard from legislators defending their refusal to stop these bills by saying “well they’ll just be back next year.”  Yes they will, and guess what Mensa candidates?  They’ll be back next year even though you declared surrender. We know because they told us. House Rep Jason Kropf, who regularly promoted his anti-gun crap by outright lying about Oregon law told us through tear filled eyes that these attacks are not about to end.  And still the Republicans roll over for the whipping and then send out press releases claiming victory.

Time after time we hear Republicans complain about anti-rights legislation saying “Its unconstitutional !  There will be lawsuits!”  But they never file any and they never pay for any. That, it seems, is your job.  But it’s not.  It’s their job!

We hired them to defend our rights not to back down over and over so they can brag about the new fire hydrant they scored for their district.  Not so they could vote over and over to advance the Democrat’s twisted agenda.  Not so they could make motions every single day to speed up the process of crushing the state by advancing bad bills without reading them.

The Oregon Republican Caucus celebrates failure as long as they can claim goodies handed out in exchange for their passivity.

The Oregon Republican Party rewards legislators who cave and protects candidates who will cave, as long as they’re “Republicans.”

It is the official policy of the Oregon Republican Party to elect anyone, no matter how willing they are to side with the Democrats, as long as they say they are “Republicans.”   This twisted philosophy keeps bringing us legislators like Charlie Conrad, Kevin Mannix, and Cyrus Javadi. 

These attacks will continue. Your rights will continue to disappear session after session.  This progression cannot be solved by an endless series of lawsuits costing an incalculable amount of money that will be decided by judges who were appointed by anti-gun governors.  That is simply unsustainable.

We must hold accountable the people who sold us out.  We must create a sea change in the way the Oregon Republican Party conducts business.

Much of the rest of the country is moving in a positive direction for gun owners.  Oregon is going backwards at high speed.

As unpopular as our message is with the establishment we will continue to point out who took your campaign donations and your vote and then kicked you to the curb for a few dollars in state handouts.  (By “state handouts” of course we mean your money.)

Recent sessions have not been good for Oregon gun owners who are not criminals. Many of you did all you could to try to hold the Republican’s feet to the fire. You held up your end. Now we must make the people we hired hold up theirs.

A lot of good people are looking to move elsewhere.  For those who choose to stay we’ll keep spreading the truth.  We are deeply grateful for all the support you have shown us through these fights.

If you wish to contribute to our continued efforts you can do so here:

https://oregonfirearms.ejoinme.org/MyPages/DonationPage/tabid/70447/Default.aspx

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Senate Republicans Pass One More Gun Ban

Senate Republicans Pass One More Gun Ban


06.27.2025

 

Every single Republican Senator except Kim Thatcher came to the Senate Floor to provide quorum for the Democrat’s latest deranged attack on gun owners.

SB 243, in addition to making criminals out of thousands of law abiding Oregonians the minute it takes effect, will eliminate the rights of any Oregonian who applied for and received a concealed handgun license.  This is one more disgraceful insult to those who naively thought that they should play by the rules. Oregon Republicans just told them they are chumps.

But more, it sends a clear signal to the violent criminals that are rewarded every day in Oregon by letting them know that in a vast, and as of yet undetermined, number of places, they will meet no armed resistance when they choose to hurt and kill.

This kind of measure is simple insanity.  As Oregon becomes the epicenter for far left violence we have once again tightened the noose around those who could confront it. And rest assured it is not over.

Democrat House Rep Jason Kropf, who lies about Oregon gun law on a nearly daily basis, has promised that a lot more is coming.

Strangely, Republicans use those threats to roll over and play dead when they could have stopped this madness at no cost to themselves.

This is one more humiliating defeat for Oregon Republicans who simply refuse to use the power they have to defend your rights. All this in the hopes of getting a few crumbs from their Democrat masters to play show and tell back in their districts at election time.

To everyone who called and emailed, we thank you. You did what you could. You are not responsible for the greed and cowardice of the people you hired to stand up for you.

 

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GUN BAN PASSES HOUSE

GUN BAN PASSES HOUSE 

Republicans Provide Quorum

Kevin Mannix

 

06.25.2025

Today after a very long day of delays, virtue signaling, and technical glitches SB 243 was passed in the Oregon House. The ignorance demonstrated by the people who spoke in favor of the bill was staggering. Representative Kropf is unaware that Oregon has mandatory background checks. He again falsely (and tearfully) claimed you cannot possess a machine gun or a short barrel rifle. Representative Dobson thinks Congress banned bump stocks.

HB 3076 was returned to the Judiciary Committee effectively killing it for this session.

3076 would have crushed Oregon gun dealers. We are pleased that it has died the death it deserves. However, once again, Oregon Republicans provided the quorum needed to pass SB 243, a very dangerous and vindictive anti-rights bill.

SB 243 will make criminals out of thousands of good, law abiding Oregonians who legally possess certain firearms accessories considered to be “rapid fire actuators”. SB 243 will also strip concealed handgun license holders of the ability to protect themselves and others in countless public buildings.

The legislators who passed this hateful attack are protected every day by well armed security at all times.  Virtually none of the places where CHL holders will now be prohibited are protected. There is nothing in the bill that will require that these places be protected and in fact almost none will have the resources to provide the level of security the legislators enjoy. Those locations will now advertise that anyone planning violence knows they will meet no opposition. This is a disgrace.

This bill has already passed the Senate and will need to return there for concurrence. If the Republicans in the Senate provide quorum at that time, this bill will become law and Oregonians will be far less safe and far more in danger of becoming criminals.

The Republicans who provided quorum to pass SB 243 are:

Rick Lewis

Kevin Mannix

Bobby Levy

Mark Owens

Jeff Helfrich

Boomer Wright

Greg Smith

Shelly Boshart Davis

Vikki Breese Iverson

Emily Mcintire

None of these representatives risked anything by refusing to be there. Please remember them.

Update. The same people who sold you out are claiming victory!


But the real winners are the pro-crime, anti-self defense leftists.

But the Republicans keep taking victory laps even though gun owners were screwed for no reason.

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Gun Bill Moved Back One Day

Gun Bill Moved Back One Day

 

06.24.2025

Today, the House Republicans once again provided quorum on the House floor.

The Reps who “boycotted” yesterday to protest rude treatment of one of their members were back.

All but one House Rep in the “boycott” got an excused absence.

SB 243, which was on the schedule for today was moved to tomorrow when HB 3076 is also scheduled to be voted on.

While we are happy for any delay in the process of enacting the left’s agenda, if there is a quorum present when these bills are voted on there is almost no reason to doubt they will pass.

With countless bad bills already passed and billions in taxes still on the table, more and more Oregonians of all interests are calling for the Republicans  to deny quorum.

Now is not the time to let up.

Please call the Republican “leaders” and tell them to do whatever they have to to kill these bills.

Representative Christine Drazan 503.986.1451

Senator Dan Bonham.   503.986.1726

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Down To The Wire

DOWN TO THE WIRE

06.23.2025

We are down to the wire.

While 12 House Republicans were excused from the session today, the following Republican House Reps showed up to provide quorum. (Rep. Harbick was absent but not “excused.)

Breese-Iverson

Elmer

Helfrich

Javadi

Levy

Lewis

Mannix

McIntire

Owens

Reschke

G. Smith

The Republicans who were excused claim that they boycotted the session over the treatment of one of their members in committee.

In addition to showing up and providing quorum to advance the Democrat’s agenda, Republican reps made repeated motions to suspend the rules that require reading the entire bill before voting.  This constant effort on the part of Republicans to speed things up for the Democrats is greatly increasing the chance of passage of the two pending anti-gun bills.

SB 243 is now scheduled for a vote on the House floor tomorrow.

HB 3076 is now scheduled for a vote on the House floor on Wednesday.

We thank every one of you who contacted Republican Leadership.

Rep Christine Drazan 503.986.1451

Sen. Dan Bonham 503 986.1726

Every Republican who shows up from now on is voting to end your gun rights.

It is the official policy of the Oregon Republican Party to protect Republicans who vote against your rights.  This has got to stop.

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WHIPPED

 

Whipped

 

Republicans

06.20.2025

Oregon’s two latest gun bans, SB 243 and HB 3076 have passed out of the Ways And Means Committee and are on their way to the floor where Republican Senator McLane has once again announced, they will pass.

There were no surprises. Just continued disappointments.  The Republicans expressed outrage, shock, and how sick they are of gun bans. And they continue to make it clear they will be providing quorum so these bills will pass. Why walk when you can whine? The people we entrusted to protect our rights are whipped.

Once again Senators McLane and Girod expressed disappointment that they could not vote just to pass half of SB 243. According to them it’s fine to put people in prison for owning something they bought legally.

While the entire spectacle was a disgrace, there was one important takeaway from Senator Lew Fredrick. Fredrick, a Democrat from Portland, after an especially ignorant comment about hunting birds with rifles, inadvertently nailed the issue when he admitted that the problem is not people with rifles in Burns. It’s people in his neighborhood.  Of course, he strongly supports both bills.

Today was the last day that a Republican could have faced any liability for unexcused absences.   If the Republicans go back to work after today, they passed these bills. It is just that simple.

Once again law abiding gun owners are being turned into criminals.

Your rights, your business, your property, your privacy, and yes, your liberty are vanishing.

We need guard dogs. We have lap dogs.

 

 

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Criminal Protection Bill Moving Tomorrow

Criminal Protection Bill Moving Tomorrow

 

06.19.2025

SB 243, the criminal protection bill that also makes possession of many firearms accessories a crime is having a “work session” tomorrow at 8.30 am in the Joint Subcommittee On Capital Construction.

The bill will then move right over to the full committee to be passed at 4pm. This means the bill will be on the floor very soon. For more info click here.

BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE!!!

HB 3076, the bill to force gun stores to close, is now scheduled for a final work session in the full Ways and Means Committee along with SB 243 tomorrow at 4pm.

Clearly the Democrats plan to race these bills through as quickly as possible. Expect to see these bills moved to the floor very soon. If the bills are not on the floor by tomorrow in both Houses, the Republicans can walk away from this circus without fear of being denied the right to run again. If Republicans show up any day after tomorrow THEY PASSED THESE BILLS. Period

 

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GUN STORE SHUT DOWN MOVES AHEAD

GUN STORE SHUT DOWN MOVES AHEAD


06.18.2025
Today HB 3076, the gun store shut down bill , passed out of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Capitol Construction and on to the full Ways and Means Committee.

The lawyer who drafted it was at the work session and admitted she could not answer simple questions about the content of the bill.

Amendments were adopted to appropriate millions of your tax dollars to enforce the new restrictions on gun dealers.  (Millions of dollars buys a lot of tents for the fentanyl community.). However, no one knows what all of those restrictions will be

While the bill has new requirements for “training”, background checks, and mandatory video surveillance (with years of retentions of the videos), it leaves to the Department of Justice the role of creating those rules.

It also tasks the Department of Justice withon-site inspections, in accordance with this section, of each state license holder’s place of business to ensure that the licensee is complying with the requirements to hold a state license..”

Also:

“The department may conduct reasonable periodic unannounced inspections of a retailer licensee’s place of business during the retailer licensee’s regular business hours.”

The Department of Justice also gets to; “adopt rules for the secure storage of firearms and ammunition by retailer licensees and other licensees in a manner that prevents unauthorized access.”

We need not point out the Department of “Justice” is a collection of “lawyers” not security experts. Nor do we need to point out the  Department of “Justice” is run by an extreme left wing anti-gunner who has spent millions of dollars of your taxes to enact a ban on firearms components and a permitting scheme that will all but eliminate legal gun transfers in Oregon. 

But if you have any concerns about how draconian and convoluted these new rules will be, don’t you worry. Democrat House Rep Jason Kropf, who displays his mind numbing ignorance of Oregon law on a daily basis, assured us they he knew of gun stores that “will have no problems with these regulations.”  He did mention that some would have problems but they were likely breaking the law anyway. 

Republican Senator Fred Girod said he believed the point of the bill was to make guns more expensive. We disagree. The bill is clearly designed to make guns unavailable.

Republican Senator Mike McLane, while opposing the bill did include in his remarks “When this bill passes…”

Whether that was a tacit admission that Senate Republicans have no intention of denying quorum and thus helping pass this bill  remains to be seen. But it did not sound good. In a few days Oregon Republicans will face no penalties for walking out and protecting your rights and the many businesses this bill is designed to destroy.  Today the Oregon House  passed this resolution.  We strongly encourage them to continue spending as much time as possible on bills like these as the clock keeps ticking.

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Gun Store Shutdown Bill Back

Gun Store Shutdown Bill Back

 

06.17.2025

HB 3076, a bill designed to close Oregon gun stores, is back and moving.

The bill which imposes extreme, onerous, and punitive restrictions on Oregon’s FFL’s is now scheduled for a work session in the “Joint Committee On Ways and Means Subcommittee On Capital Construction”.

The work session is scheduled for tomorrow at 8.30 am.

In addition to the enormous fees it forces on all gun dealers and federal firearms license holders, the bill creates an impossible-to-comply-with list of conditions and restrictions that will close most if not all gun dealers in the state.

This bill creates Mexico style restrictive conditions in Oregon.

If this insanity passes in the closing days of the 2025 Legislative Session you can thank Oregon’s Republican Legislators.

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Democrats Criminal Protection Bill Passes Committee

Democrat’s Criminal Protection Bill Passes Committee


06.16.2025

As expected, SB 243 passed the House Rules Committee and is now in its way to the full House and the Ways and Means Committee.

But not without Representative Kropf once again demonstrating his complete and total ignorance of Oregon gun law. His inability to read black letter law is truly unsettling.

243 creates a vast new patchwork of prohibited places for concealed handgun licensees.

Virtually any government entity will be empowered to ban license holders from “their” property.

The sponsors of the bill made it clear that while there were no examples of CHL holders creating problems, they were ramming it through because some people were afraid that others might be exercising a right. So the rights of some will be eliminated by the neurotic “feelings” of others. 

To be clear, the bill includes exactly nothing to prevent truly dangerous people from bringing guns into public meetings. It only advertises to them that they will meet no resistance.  It’s interesting that the paranoid red shirts are perfectly fine with giving criminals access to public meetings while armed. But clearly now Oregon is legislating based on the whims of the emotionally unbalanced. But we are getting used to that.

The bill also bans “rapid fire actuators”. Many of the banned items are already illegal under federal law. The thousands of people who own the other ones lawfully in Oregon will become criminals when the bill goes into effect and felons should they attempt to dispose of them.

Far left crank Floyd Prozanski suggested that all those people only got them to commit mass murders. As of now it is unclear why they have not. Perhaps Floyd can clarify in his next incoherent floor speech.

The bill was also amended to include implementation dates for the permit and component ban sections of Mz 114 which, as you know, is currently held up in the Oregon Supreme Court.

The damage this bill will do cannot be adequately calculated. Republicans have promised to do all they can to “fight it.”

But the simple truth is they don’t have the power to do a damn thing about it except run their mouths and send out press releases. The only tool they have is to refuse to participate and keep the Democrats from one more irrational attack on your rights. 

In a mass email today, House Rep Jeff Helfrich said While Democrats and the supermajority are slowly trying to chip away at your right to bear arms, we hope that the courts will uphold our federal and state constitutions.”  They can “hope” all they want, but as we have learned, they expect others to foot the bill for any lawsuits.

In an email to a voter, House Republican “Leader” Christine Drazan said: A walkout is not a substitute for winning elections. The supermajority has 2 years to control the state and walking today doesn’t stop anything from passing the next time we are called into session.”

This is absurd. The Democrats keep ramming through anti-rights bills because they know the Republicans are going to roll over time after time after time. And then ask you to re-elect them.

Because the House made changes in this bill it will need to go back to the Senate for concurrence. That means that as of now both the House and Senate Republicans still have the opportunity to do the right thing.

The Legislature must close up shop on June 29th.  The Republicans would not risk the seats they are determined to keep (for no apparent reason) unless they have ten or more absences that are not “excused” by their Democrat overlords. You can do the math.

We will soon be seeing if their jobs are more important than your rights.

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GUN BAN WORK SESSION TOMORROW

GUN BAN WORK SESSION TOMORROW

 

Broadman

 

06.15.2025

SB 243, the Democrat’s latest effort to protect criminals and outlaw self defense while turning law abiding Oregonians into felons is scheduled tomorrow for a “work session.”

The “work session” is planned for 3 PM in the House Committee on Rules.

For more details and links to watch this insanity online use this link:

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Committees/HRULES/2025-06-16-15-00/Agenda

Expect the adoption of amendments and a “do pass” recommendation.  Then it’s off to the full House where we expect the House Republicans, under the disastrous and failed “leadership” of Christine Drazan, to provide the quorum needed to further crush your rights and safety.

 

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Happy Flag Day

Happy Flag Day

06.14.2025

As mostly peaceful riots spread from coast to coast in celebration of Flag Day (with apparently some mixed messages) the new Mayor of Portland gave a speech encouraging people to protest but imploring them to be “peaceful” and “respectful” because you see, those are Portland values.  This, of course, prompted us to wonder how long he’s lived here. (He’s basically Ted Wheeler but not as masculine.)

So time for a weekend update.

First, some news on Mz 114.

As you know, Mz 114 was declared “constitutional” by Oregon’s Appeals Court in a decision that lead to head scratching by anyone who read it.

Now the Oregon Supreme Court has agreed to review that decision.

For reasons that we just cannot quite wrap our heads around, Oregon’s controlled media seems to be MIA on this story. 

Oregon’s cartel propaganda mills, especially the aging Marxists at the Oregonian (formally a “newspaper”) seem to virtually wet themselves whenever they have bad news to report  for gun owners or Oregon Firearms

 Federation. But it’s darn hard to find a story about this move by the Supreme Court.

What does this mean?  While it certainly is not an indication that the Court will overturn the Appeals Court ruling, it does not rubber stamp it either.  Clearly they think the lower court got something wrong.  And, as noted above, if you actually read what the lower court said, you would have to conclude they got everything wrong.

Could the Oregon Supreme Court make things worse?  Of course they can, but for now this keeps Mz 114 on ice and that is a good thing.  Because of this move by the Court, 114 will not go into effect any time soon.

HB 3075, which repeals Mz 114 and replaces it with worse language at twice the costs  is still sitting in the House Ways and Means Committee having not been voted on in either chamber. And time is running out for its passage.  It is possible for the legislature to move a bill through both Houses in one day. So this bill is still very much alive,  but at the time of this alert it is still in committee.

Nothing is dead until the last gavel falls and the Republicans and Democrats meet together in a group hug and embrace like competing softball teams but the clock is ticking. We’ll take whatever good news we can get for as long as we have it.

Another issue to be aware of is Ballot Measure 28.  This ballot measure will outlaw “killing animals” for food and just about everything else.

You may think this is so nuts no rational person would even consider this insanity.  But rest assured the crazies who are pushing it will be every bit as deceitful as the wing nuts who brought us Ballot Mz’s 110, 113 and of course, 114.

They are already tricking people into signing it by claiming it’s to “stop experiments” on animals. Just like they lied to us about what Mz 110 would do and now our streets are open air toilets for mentally ill fentanyl addicts. Please spread the word, this is another deranged attempt to stomp out whatever normalcy is left in Oregon.

Not only does it ban hunting and fishing, it bans raising animals for food. Insane? You bet. Likely to pass?  Yes if enough people are deceived about its intention.

Oregon has lost its mind in so many ways.  Please don’t let this crackpot scheme gain traction. If you are a Facebook user please consider joining “Oregonians Against The PEACE Act.”

Have a great weekend and keep that bear spray handy.

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ATTACK ON GUN OWNERS GETS HOUSE HEARING

ATTACK ON GUN OWNERS GETS HOUSE HEARING

 

Demanding  Action!

 

06.11.2025

Today’s hearing on SB 243 was everything you would expect and less.

Dragged out of the archives were the usual collection of dingbats and nanny staters to repeat and regurgitate their well practiced collection of platitudes and lies.

So much of what the McKennas and Okamotos and their red shirted harridans babbled was so painfully false and ridiculous that it made your eyebrows ache. But equally idiotic were the absurd comments of the “pros” from the various national anti-rights organizations.

McKenna
Okamoto

Ignorance and arrogance (a dangerous combination) are to be expected from this collection of cackling hens, but things get a lot more dangerous when that level of stupidity is expressed by the legislators who will be ramming this bill into law.

House Rep Jason Kropf expressed sheer terror and astonishment at the idea that Americans could own “automatic weapons,” a concept he claimed he had never heard anyone suggest. Of course almost 100 years ago the US Supreme Court said in no uncertain terms that the only weapons protected by the Second Amendment were military weapons. And while we have faced decades of judicial anarchy and confusion since then, it’s on the record.

Kropf went on to say that Oregon law prohibits the ownership of machine guns. Oddly, this guy went to law school and can’t read law. Oregon law most certainly does not prohibit machine guns.

But to put on bow on the entire sorry spectacle, the hearing ended with House Republican “Leader”, Christine Drazan, firmly stating her intention to fight like hell to kill this bill.  That, of course, is utter nonsense.

Drazan keeps telling people they need to “overwhelm” the Democrats with testimony. But of course the submitted testimony was overwhelmingly in opposition to this hideous attack on our rights and common sense.    It’s a joke and a charade.  There is only one thing standing in the way of this bill passing the House and becoming law.  That is for the Republicans to grow a spine, stand up for sanity, and refuse to continue to participate in this hateful circus.

Under Drazan’s disastrous “leadership” that would appear to be less likely than Portland becoming tent free or the Department of Transportation telling us what they did with the money.

We believe there are House Reps who really want to do the right thing. But Drazan has been a disaster and she has to go. As long as Drazan is in charge of the House Republicans expect to see your rights chipped away piece by piece.

We will let you know when the House Rules Committee schedules a work session on this bill. It will be soon.

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Democrat’s Absurd Gun Ban Moves Ahead

Democrat’s Absurd Gun Ban Moves Ahead

 

06.10.2025

The Democrat’s gun owner entrapment bill, SB 243, which passed in the Senate with the tacit approval of Republicans, is now scheduled for a hearing in the House Rules Committee tomorrow at 2:30 PM in Hearing Room D.

As you know, this bill makes instant criminals out of Oregonians who lawfully obtained and lawfully used certain devices such as forced reset triggers.  There is no grandfathering, no legal way to transfer them out of state. And while we would still strongly oppose this nonsense if it did, clearly this is simply an attempt by the Democrats to entrap as many gun owners as possible.

Two Senate Republicans, McLane and Nash, spoke in support of this part of the bill.

SB 243 also vastly expands locations that are off limits to CHL holders.  One of promoters of the bill, Senator Broadman, claimed that this bill would reduce suicides. We needn’t discuss the blatant lunacy of that position.

The promoters and supporters of this bill have not provided a single rational example of why this bill is needed and in fact, it serves no purpose except to further marginalize and demonize gun owners who play by the rules.  It also sends a clear message to evil doers that they have a far greater choice of places to create mayhem, secure in the knowledge that they will meet no resistance from an armed and trained civilian.  As criminal mobs continue to rage and burn across the country, the message this bill sends is truly and seriously demented.

Almost every day we receive canned messages from the Republicans telling us to send in testimony to “overwhelm” the other side.  And every day we see another bill that has overwhelming opposition glide into effect because the Republicans are too cowardly to stand up and do the job they want you to do.

As a Democrat anti-gun bill, SB 243 is a virtual sure thing to pass with the Republicans virtually guaranteed to show up and provide quorum. Still, if you want to make your voice heard, to at least add to the record, as the people we elected assist the Democrats, you can upload testimony here:

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Testimony/HRULES/SB/243/2025-06-11-14-30?area=Measures

You can register to testify remotely here: (the link to register is at the bottom right of this page.)

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/SB243

(Be advised, it appears that people who register in opposition to gun bills seem to experience higher than normal incidents of “technical difficulties”.)

Of course, if you are willing to be disarmed by the well protected stooges who are in charge, you can testify in person.

 

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Republicans Pass More Gun Bans

05.29.2025

Today, all Senate Republicans showed up to provide the quorum the Democrats needed to pass SB 243, Oregon’s latests gun ban.

Words cannot express the magnitude of the ignorance and stupidity showcased by most of the floor speeches. But a few of the lowlights included Senator Broadman suggesting that banning reset triggers and keeping CHL holders out of public meetings would reduce veteran suicide. He also stated that the police “don’t want CHL holders help.”  We have no indication that any cop anywhere ever said that. But that does not stand in the way of making stuff up.

Then there was Senator Reynolds letting us know that “machine guns are illegal”.  Ok, she’s a moron but the Republicans did not disappoint either.

Senators McLane and Nash both bemoaned the fact that they could not get to vote just to ban “rapid fire activators” something they agreed we have no right to own.

Senator Bonham noted, oddly, that most of the mail he got urged him to walk out. Which of course, he didn’t.  So much for having your voice heard.

In spite of the fact that countless Oregonians own the devices banned under this measure and, for some reason have not committed mass murder, we were reminded by Floyd Prozanski that the ONLY thing you can do with them is “kill a lot of people in a very short time.” 

When this bill passes in the House and is signed by the Governor, people who now own these devices legally and safely will officially be in the same category as killers and child porn purveyors.

Thank you Senate Republicans.

It was always a safe bet that not enough Republicans had the courage to stop this bill. After all, not a day goes by that they don’t torture us with press releases about the damage the Democrats are doing, yet they keep showing up to help them.  But it is truly disappointing to see that even the Republicans who had NOTHING TO LOSE (because they already are denied the right to run again) showed up to grandstand. It may have been just a statement of support, but it would have been something.

In addition to the ban on “rapid fire activators” the bill will now make CHL holders criminals should they have the temerity to be part of any city council or county commissioner meeting, or enter any building of any of the dozens of “boards” Oregon has while in possession of their licensed firearms should officials ban them. 

The bill now moves to the House, where under the failed and embarrassing “leadership” of Christine Drazan the Republicans are sure to fold again.  But not without hours of speeches about just how terrible the bills they help pass are.

Other even worse bills are waiting in the wings.It’s a safe bet they are not done yet.