Author: OFF

04.17.18

Ballot Measure 43, the “Inter-Hate” petition to imprison Oregonians for exercising their rights, was sent to the Attorney General today for a draft ballot title.  After being delayed because they were short on signatures, the petitioners gathered more and collected enough to move to the next step.

After receiving the text of the initiative, the Attorney General prepares a draft ballot title and files it with the Elections Division. A ballot title includes:

 a caption that does not exceed 15 words describing the subject of the petition;

 a statement that does not exceed 25 words describing the result if the petition is passed;

 a statement that does not exceed 25 words describing the result if the petition is rejected; and

 a summary that does not exceed 125 words describing the major effect of the petition.

As you can imagine, it will  be virtually impossible for an accurate ballot title and summary to be created given how extreme this measure is.

After the Attorney General creates the title, summaries, and statement registered voters in Oregon will be given an opportunity to comment on the language of the ballot title. There will no doubt be plenty to complain about.  The Attorney General has until April 24th to create the title.

When she does, we’ll post detailed information on how you can submit your comments. Any registered voter who comments will have standing to appeal the ballot title language in court. You will have until May 8 to submit your comments.

Please keep an eye on these alerts for updates.

This coming Saturday there will be pro Second Amendment rights rallies in several locations in Oregon. Please try to attend the one closest to you.

The rallies already announced for that date are from 11am to 1 pm at the following locations:

Redmond City Hall, Redmond

Sandy City Hall,  Sandy

State Capitol,   Salem

Medford City Hall   411 W 8th St , Medford

405 East 8th Ave, Eugene

Til Taylor Park on SE 7th Street  Pendleton.

04.16.18

Today Facebook blocked OFF from posting on its page. There was no explanation.

We know that Facebook manipulates its content and blocks any material that it does not agree with, but this is the first time OFF has been cut off from posting messages. This is all we received:

“You recently posted something that violates Facebook policies, so you’re temporarily blocked from using this feature. For more information, visit the Help Center.”

Needless to say, the “Help Center” provided no help.

While Facebook has been a useful tool for reaching people and giving them the opportunity to respond, it is becoming increasingly clear that it is a medium that is designed to control its users, mine their data and silence any information not in line with its narrative. This is amazingly dangerous.

If you are a Facebook user be aware that the information you are getting there is heavily controlled. (Like you didn’t know that.)

On another note, Oregon Firearms has posted our candidate grades for the May primary elections. You can see them here.

So far they have not found a way to shut down our website.

04.02.18

Another anti-gun ballot measure has been filed. As you can see, in this case one of the chief petitioners is not even an Oregon resident.

This measure requires that firearms be locked up and may not be “transferred” without having trigger locks or being in locked containers.  Of course it is no longer even legal to transfer a firearm except to close family members unless the transfer is done through a dealer, so who is liable then?

Section 2 (sub 3  ) would hold you strictly liable for any injury that occurred five years after you transferred a firearm without a trigger lock . We’ll update as we  analyze the latest hare-brained push by the mindless Bloomberg stooges.

03.26.18

As you probably know, signatures were turned in today to start the process to put a measure on the ballot to ban modern firearms and magazines and make felons out of thousands of law abiding Oregonians.

First, understand that this is not a “bill” and will not be voted on or determined by the governor or legislators. This will be decided by a vote of the people. That is why it is critical that you be registered to vote.

The measure, which you can see here, even bans things that don’t exist like “threaded barrels that accept forward pistol grips.”

We want to let you know what to expect and how you can help stop this madness.

After these initial signatures are turned in, the Secretary of State must validate the signatures to determine if there are sufficient qualifying signatures to get a “draft” ballot title.

Then the Attorney General has to create an “impartial” draft ballot title.

After that happens the public will have an opportunity to make comments on the draft ballot title.

For example, if the draft ballot title is “Bans Assault Weapons” a member of the public could object because “assault weapon” is a fictitious term.

The Attorney General  must then consider these comments and  issue a “certified” ballot title.

Given how far left our Attorney General is, you can rest assured it will be misleading at best.

At that point, anyone who submitted comments has standing to challenge the ballot title before Oregon’s Supreme Court.

The signature gathering process to actually get the confiscation measure on the ballot cannot begin until this process has run its course.

As this measure moves we will provide you with details of dates and procedures to comment, and if you choose, challenge the title in court.

If you want to see all the details of the process, please download this manual.

Stay tuned. There is a lot of work to do to prevent wholesale confiscations by the state.

If you wish to donate to help stop this measure you can do so here.

03.19.18

The recent announcement of plans for a ballot measure to ban modern firearms and feeding devices is just one of many attacks on the Second Amendment underway now.

Retailer Fred Meyer has gone so far as announcing that not only will it stop selling firearms, it will stop selling certain firearm magazines. No, not firearms “feeding devices,” magazines, meaning periodicals, paper with pictures on them!

As if this were not crazy enough,  Oregon’s House Republican leader, Mike McLane, recently stated that he plans to help Democrats raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21.

(No word on if he plans to save countless lives by raising the minimum age to drive.)

But worst of all, now the NRA is openly endorsing what they themselves call “Firearm Surrender Bills.”

It’s sad but true. NRA is now calling for “Extreme Risk Protection Orders” of the type they have opposed across the country.  While saying they need to have strong “due process” components, they ignore that it is the very nature of these laws to deny due process.

This is the last thing we need in the current environment.

If you are an NRA member (or even if you are not) please let the NRA know they do not speak for you when they endorse laws that confiscate firearms from people who have not been convicted of, or even accused of, a crime.

And please use the action alert button to send a message to Mike McLane that you do not support taking away Second Amendment rights from young adults.  Thank you.

2.19.18

HB 4145, the Bloomberg/Brown gun confiscation bill has passed the Oregon House and is now in the Senate.

As you know, three House Republicans joined the Bloomberg funded Democrats to pass this dangerous bill.
They were :

Knute Buehler ,(who wants to be your next governor,)

Richard Vial and

Julie Parrish.

We expect the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by rabid anti-gun extremist Floyd Prozanski, to pass the bill out of committee over the objections of the Republican members. Given the speed at which bad bills are racing through the legislature, we believe this will happen very fast.                                            

You can learn more about why this bill is so bad here.

Please help us fight this gun grabbing outrage by using this link to send a message to the Oregon Senate.