House Bill 2334, which started life last session as a dreadful anti-gun bill, passed the Senate Judiciary Committee as a pro-gun bill because of your tireless efforts.
The bill contains language that OFF wrote last session giving active duty military personnel the ability to renew concealed handgun licenses by mail.
The bill now moves to the Senate floor where we believe it will pass.
This bill represents a great victory for the activism of gun owners even in the face of a vocally antigun legislature. Thank you for all your hard work.
We are still watching to see if one more efforts will be made to pass a bill to give the law-breaking Port of Portland more police powers. While it is too early to tell, there are bills still in play that could be amended or “gut and stuffed” to give the Port’s Police expanded police powers.
In particular House Bill 3442 A, due to be heard on May 24th in Senate Judiciary, could be a vehicle to be amended.
If there is another attempt to slide the bad language of previous Port of Portland bills into this or other bills, we will need your activism to defeat it, but right now congratulate yourself on your efforts to clean up and pass HB 2334.