Category: OFF Alerts

Stopping Satan’s Steamroller.

The clock is ticking. Though not officially posted, numerous knowledgeable people have informed us that SB 554 will be voted on this Thursday.*UPDATE. THE BILL HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY POSTED FOR VOTE ON THURSDAY MARCH 25.

This is the bigoted, hate driven bill that seeks to send you to prison for driving too close to any public building that has  been declared “off limits”  to law abiding, licensed, gun owners.

Make no mistake, there is nothing in this bill that addresses criminals. This is simply a way for the hateful Democrats to punish law abiding Oregonians for no other reason than they can.

Imagine if a local government in Oregon decided to imprison black people for driving by a library. Imagine if a municipality decided that anyone with a disability would go to prison for 5 years because they walked past a city hall.  This is exactly what the Democrats have in mind for gun owners who submitted to the Constitutionally questionable practice of applying for and receiving a concealed handgun license and “proving” their qualifications. 

Now the Oregon Democrats want to send those people to prison while at the same time doing all they can to comfort and support looters, rioters, drug dealers and pimps.

But what makes this far worse is that many Oregon Republicans are going along for the ride.

ALL of these evil bills would come to a grinding halt if the Republicans simply did what they were elected to do and STOP participating in this demented game.

Denial of quorum is not only legal and constitutional, it is a tactic that has been amazingly successful in the past and one which Republicans were rewarded for with reelection and added seats.  But now the “leaders” of the House and Senate Republicans are declaring an unconditional surrender, your rights be damned.  Happy to take your votes and donations, they are now saying it will be “too difficult” to do the one thing that might prevent Oregon from becoming an unlivable hell hole.

Now, groups from across the state, and representing many different issues, have come together to demand that the Republicans do their job and protect our rights. The list of signers is growing and will be added to and updated.  We are asking that you add your voice to this effort by calling Senate Republican Leader Fred Girod and House Republican Leader Christine Drazan and remind them that there will be exactly no reason for you to support them in the future if they don’t protect your rights and your children’s future now.

They will have a long list of excuses. “It’s too hard”. “It’s too expensive.”  “The media will say bad things about us.”  Tough.  If Oregonians are being punished because their guns were stolen, or if they drove too close to a DMV, if their property taxes skyrocket, if they are prohibited from putting fuel in their trucks, they are not going to have time to be concerned about  the minor inconvenience of legislators STAYING HOME.

There are a number of Republican Senators who are prepared to walk out this week should the bill be officially scheduled.  The rest need marching orders from Fred Girod.*UPDATE. THE BILL HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY POSTED FOR VOTE ON THURSDAY MARCH 25.

Please call him NOW and tell him to get the others to join the walkout.  No excuses.

Senator Fred Girod. 503-986-1709

Representative Christine Drazan. 503-986-1439

PRO CRIMINAL DEMOCRATS WANT IT ALL

House Rep Brian Clem, who used to ooze over to pro-gun lobbyists in House Gallery and apologize for voting against gun rights with the explanation that he “had to do what he was told by the speaker” is now pushing for a complete elimination of Oregon’s preemption statute.

The goal is to create an incomprehensible patchwork of laws and regulations with the intention of entrapping as many (formally) law abiding gun owners as possible.

His brain child, HB 3005, repeals Oregon’s law that allows only the State Legislature to write most gun laws. That bill is now scheduled for a hearing on April 6th and a work session on April 13th.  Both will be in the House Judiciary Committee.

See all bill info here.

It’s this kind of vindictive legislation that prompted Yamhill County to, today, pass a Second Amendment Sanctuary Ordinance to stand in the way of the Democrat hate machine. We are grateful for the two County Commissioners who got this done, Mary Starrett and Lindsay Berschauer. Commissioner Casey Kulla voted against protecting your rights. (kullac@co.yamhill.or.us)

Of course, Clem and the Democrats may get a surprise if they are successful with this attempt to stick it to gun owners.  The entire state is not as twisted as some western counties and they may just pass a few gun laws that will cause excessive bed wetting by the left.

The Democrats are in a feeding frenzy and they are going for all the marbles. There is one, and only one thing that can stop them. That would be for the Republicans to say “no more.”  By simply not showing up, this entire freak show comes to a halt. If the Republicans do not stand up and walk out when these bills are on the floor, gun rights in Oregon are done. It’s as simple as that.

We have bills in both the House and Senate that will eviscerate gun ownership and self defense in Oregon. At the same time, violence is out of control in our cities and criminals are being rewarded by the majority party.

There is little reason to reach out to Democrats. They are just doing what leftist’s do. You cannot really blame a scorpion for biting you.  However, gun owners, with their votes and contributions, have supported Republican candidates. They were rewarded last time they walked out with reelection and an increase in seats.

Now it’s their responsibility to stand up for us.

The Senate Republican Leader is Fred Girod. https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/girod

The House Republican Leader is Christine Drazan. https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/drazan

Please contact them. Your message does not need to be long, it does not need to be complicated and it does not need to repeat all the facts that are already well known. Simply tell them, “Gun owners supported you. Now it’s your turn. Walk out.”

If you decide to either send in written testimony or if you want to try to testify live on HB 3005, info for doing that follows.

The electronic system for testifying in person is a massive failure. Furthermore, although opponents of gun control bills always outnumber the supporters, the anti-rights extremists always seem to get far more opportunities to speak.  But what the heck, it’s worth a try.

Info for signing up to testify “in person” or with written testimony follows.

Submit written testimony on a bill or topic scheduled for a public hearing:

• Electronic: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/Testimony/HJUD

• Mail: House Committee on Judiciary, 900 Court Street NE, Room 453, Salem, OR 97301

Written testimony may be submitted up to 24 hours after the meeting start time.

Register to testify live remotely:

• Registration is required to testify by phone or video.

• Register online: https://survey.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_blWKgvBopoSNdYO

You will see a confirmation screen and be sent an email with information on how to join the

meeting. If you do not, contact the committee assistant.

• Register by phone: 833-588-4500 (U.S. toll free). You will be given a phone number to call into the meeting.

And Now, Ghost Guns

03.16.2021

With deadlines for destroying gun rights in Oregon closing in, the Oregon Democrats have stepped up their attacks.

Next on the list of ways to send you to prison?  The world famous “ghost guns”.

On March 25th at 8am, Floyd Prozanski and the Senate Judiciary Committee will be hearing SB 396, a bill to ban “undetectable” and “untraceable” firearms and firearm parts.

Anyone with the even a passing knowledge of firearms will see that the language in this bill could have been improved had it been crafted by meth addicted gerbils, but it is not our job (nor should it be yours) to pass on to these mental midgets all that makes no sense in this new effort to fill our prisons with good Oregonians while continuing to reward those who burn buildings and throw firebombs at police.

A quick review of the bill will demonstrate that it is intended to punish people who obey the law.

As the Democrats continue to do all they can to destroy the state, the question still remains to be answered…  Will the Oregon Republicans say “no” and end this lunacy or not?

If the Oregon Republicans continue to show up for floor sessions, they do so knowing that many of the people who voted for them could soon be going to prison as felons.

To be perfectly clear, the Democrats have the votes to do this, and ban diesel fuel and legalize pimping and let drug felons be teachers. And yes, those are all bills they are working on in addition to protecting rioters and eliminating school resource officers while making sure no one can protect themselves or kids in schools. The Democrats WANT people to die. You simply cannot explain this any other way.

You as a voter in Oregon are NOT allowed in the building to testify against any of these bills. While you may attempt to upload written testimony, that system has been failing. And while you may try to sign up to testify “in person” remotely, our reviews of people who have signed up to testify on gun control bills indicate that while most people who sign up are opposed, they rarely get to speak. Somehow the ever present technical glitches mostly effect gun owners and not gun grabbers.  Anyone can verify this.

Yesterday the system failed completely.

If you want to attempt to testify against this bill, you can try using this link,

 https://survey.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eqCYCbMFRYqLOjY

It may or may not work.

After filling in the required boxes, click on the boxes next to  SB 396.  The boxes ask if you want to testify for or against. At this point knowing what we do about how things have been run, you probably have a better chance of being allowed  to testify if you say you support this idiocy.

You can attempt to upload written testimony here https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2021R1/Testimony/SJD110?meetingDate=2021-03-25-08-00

Meanwhile, as our rights, and possibly even our ability to stay out of prison, are slipping away, the Republicans are responding with fund raisers that ask you to sign a petition to the Democrats who are burning down the state. We’ll go way out on a limb and predict that won’t have a major effect.

Every single Republican serving in the legislature knew before this session started that they would not have the votes to block the Democrats scorched earth policy and the only way they could save this state would be to deny quorum.

If they don’t, your future in Oregon will be very grim.

Please use this link to take action now. https://freeroots.com/go/stop-the-attack-on-gun-rights

LET IT BURN

03.15.2021

With Portland firmly under the control of violent anarchists (with the full approval of Oregon’s House Speaker)Oregon Democrats are moving full speed ahead on their plans to prevent non criminals from defending themselves.

House Bill 2543, which will allow the Oregon State Police to deny a firearm’s transfer forever, with no explanation or justification, is now a step closer to becoming law.

The bill is scheduled for a “work session” on March 23 at 1PM in the House Judiciary Committee.

Work sessions are where bills are amended and voted out of committee onto the House Floor.  Currently there are no amendments to the bill and the Republicans on the committee have exactly nothing to say about its progress.

House Republicans voluntarily gave up any leverage they might have had when they tacitly agreed to rules that would fine them $500.00 a day for exercising their right not to participate in this assault on your rights and common sense.

As with all anti-gun bills, testimony on HB 2543 was overwhelmingly against the bill.  This clearly convinced the Democrats to move it forward.

If this bill passes,  the one small, rarely used, safeguard Oregonians had when the State Police simply did not do their job will be stripped way. And as Oregon, and our cities in particular, become ever more perilous, law abiding Oregonians who failed to plan well in advance will be at the mercy of the mobs that rule the streets. (Current law allows a dealer to transfer a firearm after three business days if the OSP does not complete, or even start, a background check.)

While House Republicans can still walk away from this freak show, they have shown no inclination to do so, instead whining about the fines they agreed to.

Of course, with a virus so deadly and widespread that our Capitol has to be locked down and boarded up to keep our elected representatives safe from us, the unwashed masses, it would seem the House Republicans still could have understandable concerns about their health and call in sick. But at this point it appears they would prefer to watch the state dissolve into a morass of leftist insanity.

There is still time for the Republicans put your future and the future of your kids ahead of their personal comfort. If you live in a district with a Republican House Rep, please call or email them and remind them what you hired them to do.  Remind them that every single one of them who walked out last time got reelected. We call that a “clue.”

If you are unsure of what district you live in, use this link to find out.

Contact info for Oregon Republican House reps is here.

We know there are rock solid Republican House Reps who still have your best interest at heart.  But there are also some who badly need to be reminded how little you will need them in the future if they show up for votes on gun grabbing bills and thereby guarantee that those dangerous attacks on you and your family pass.

03.11.2021

Today the House Committee on Health Care heard HB2510, a bill to hold gun owners liable for the violent crimes of thieves.

As expected, the deck was strongly stacked in favor of gun grabbers and the technical failures that have become the hallmark of Oregon Legislative hearings seemed to occur almost exclusively when opponents of the bill were attempting to testify.

One of the strangest testimonies came from a Washington County Commissioner Pam Treece who supported the bill because she had been attacked by a rapist with a gun, the implication being that violent rapists are dissuaded by trigger lock laws.

The usual suspects trotted out the usual disproven cliches. One supporter of eliminating self defense claimed to be a teacher who, in an effort to demonstrate that gun owners don’t understand the 2nd Amendment, made the laughable and ignorant assertion that the word “regulate”  in that amendment referred to guns. (Another reason to want to keep your kids out of schools.)

A long time anti-rights activist testified against the bill because it did not punish gun owners harshly enough.

Meanwhile, Oregon Senate Democrats have doubled down and introduced a rule change to punish Senate Republicans should they refuse to participate in these attacks.

The rule would fine any Senator who walked away from this dangerous charade $151.00 every day they were not present to help the Democrats ram through dangerous and rights destroying legislation.

This rule could be voted on as early as next week.

If the Senate Republicans are on the floor when this rule is voted on, their ability to stop any outrageous legislation will be effectively ended. It’s not complicated.

House Republicans already made this mistake and were on the floor when a similar rule was passed in that chamber.  That is now being used as an excuse for their unwillingness to walk out.

If the Senate Republicans make the same mistake, there will be nothing to prevent the Democrats from ramming through extreme restrictions on gun rights along with a vast host of other demented ideas like banning diesel fuel and legalizing pimping.

So now, the future of gun rights in Oregon is in the hands of one person. That is Senate Republican Leader Fred Girod.  Girod has made no secret of his reluctance to stand up to the Democrats and lead a walkout even though other Republican Senators are determined to fight back.

It is imperative that he hear from you loud and clear.  Tell Fred that if the Republicans are on the floor for a vote on the rule change by the Democrats, you understand that he just handed your rights away to the far left.

Please call Girod at 503-986-1709  and email him here Sen.FredGirod@oregonlegislature.gov

Oregonians are very close to losing everything. It’s time to remind the Republicans what they were elected to do.

03.08.2021

Reminder. Lock Up Bill Coming.

As we told you, HB 2510, a bill to require you to lock up your firearms and hold you liable if they are stolen and used in a crime, is scheduled for a hearing this Thursday, March 11.

The hearing will be held by the House Health Committee because now your desire to be able to protect yourself from sky rocketing crime is a “health crisis.”

The bill makes you liable for crimes committed by someone you have lawfully transferred a gun to for two years after the transfer unless you can somehow prove you transferred the gun with a trigger lock installed, two years after the transfer!

Under the bill, it will be unlawful to have a gun in your home if it is not inaccessible, if one of your upstairs windows is unlocked or one of your children is home.

If you lock the gun with an easily defeated trigger or cable lock, and it’s POSSIBLE to defeat the lock, you will be in violation.

We need not explain how truly demented this is.

For a preview of what to expect on Thursday, tune into the Health Care Committee tomorrow for an “Informational Hearing” (invited testimony only of course)  on “Gun Violence: a Public Health Crisis”.

We are going to go way out on a limb here and predict the deck will be stacked. The “informational” part of the hearing is scheduled for 3.35 but the committee can change that time whenever they want with no advanced warning. The invitees have not yet been made public.*

If you want to watch the “informational hearing”, you can click on this link tomorrow, and go to 3/9/2021 on the right side of the page. When the committee is ready to meet there will be a camera icon you can click on to enjoy the show. The committee’s meeting starts at 3.15PM

The  hearing for the bill itself  is currently scheduled for March 11 at 3.15 PM. To sign up to testify against this bill use this link.https://survey.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_00ciSJbLrYjjN3M

If you experience problems (as many do) contact Adrienne.Cooke@oregonlegislature.gov or call (503)986-1485

To submit written testimony use this link https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2021R1/Testimony/HHC

Use the drop down menus to pick “House Committee on Health Care “ and “3/11/2021 3.15PM”

Contact info for all members of this committee can be found here:
https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2021R1/Committees/HHC/Overview.

The Democrats have numerous bills to reward criminals including one to allow convicted drug dealers to teach in our schools. They are also hoping to legalize pimping. At the same time, they have declared war on legitimate gun owners. While violent criminals are unchecked in our cities, Oregon Democrats want to make sure you can’t protect yourself and your family.

And as of now, the Oregon Republicans have shown no willingness to stand up to them. Contact the leaders of the Oregon Senate and House Republicans and remind them what they were hired to do.  https://freeroots.com/go/stop-the-attack-on-gun-rights

* The guest list has been posted. As expected. Fair and balanced.

Informational Meeting Invited testimony only (3:35 pm) Gun Violence: a Public Health Crisis
Dr. Kathleen Carlson, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, OHSU-PSU School of Public Health
Rachel Banks, Public Health Director, Oregon Health Authority
Dr. Ben Hoffman, Medical Director, Tom Sargent Safety Center, Doernbecher Children’s Hospital
Monireh Moghadam, Suicide Prevention Coordinator, VA Portland Health Care System
Nike Greene, Director, Office of Youth Violence Prevention, City of Portland
Keri Moran-Kuhn, Associate Director, Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
Kelly Drane, Researcher, Giffords Law Center National
Aoibheann Cline, Northwest Regional Director, National Rifle Association
Dan Cushing, Oregon Gun Owners
Michael Findlay, Director of Government Relations – State Affairs, National Shooting Sports Foundation
And, finally wrapping the whole event up…
Ashley Cannon, Researcher, Everytown for Gun Safety

02.22.2021

Today the Senate Judiciary Committee took 4 hours of testimony on SB 554, a bill designed to turn 300,000 law abiding Oregonians into felons so that Ginny Burdick can leave the Senate happy.

We need not reiterate just how sick this concept is.

As expected, Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese did the bidding of his overlord, anti-gun billionaire Mike Bloomberg, and testified in favor of this bizarre and hate filled legislation.

But, as was noted by one opponent of the bill, he inadvertently and ignorantly made a case against the bill when he pointed out the many places where police response times are dangerously long.

The anti rights crowd trotted out the usual collection of nonsensical positions citing “statistics and studies” they never produced. It’s interesting to note that the same people who are determined to make parents felons for having the means to protect their kids at schools are determined to outlaw school resource officers.

A look at this year’s Democrat legislation makes it clear that 2021 is the year that Oregon Democrats have chosen to empower and enrich criminals while attacking the rights of the law abiding.

The opponents of the bill vastly outnumbered those in support. And it will come as no surprise that most of them were not able to testify.

And that’s not including the untold number who cannot even try to participate because of effects of fire and power outages.  The Democrats continue to try to crush Oregonian’s rights with no concern that so many are locked out of the process.

That’s how we roll in Kate Brown’s Oregon.  But to all of you who did manage to navigate the labyrinth and make your voices heard, we are deeply in your debt.

You did the job of great patriots.

The bill is now fast tracked for a “work session” on Thursday Feb 25th at 8am even though hundreds of people who wanted to voice their opposition were silenced.

Chairman Floyd Prozanski made it clear that he is not concerned that so many were cut out and plans to move this bill as fast as possible. Democrat legislators love to tell people they can still “upload written testimony” not mentioning how difficult and failure prone that process could be or the fact that they don’t read them.

So now, unless Republican leadership makes some bold moves, this bill will be voted on and possibly amended in committee on Thursday in spite of overwhelming opposition. From there it will be sent to the Senate floor where the majority support it.

The one Democrat who can easily put a stop to this disgrace is Senate President Peter Courtney. 

You have done so much. Now as we are getting close to the wire we ask that you call and email Courtney and demand he stop 554 and the demented damage it will do.

Senate President Peter Courtney

503-986-1600

sen.petercourtney@oregonlegislature.gov

 Addendum . If they tell you there were as many proponents as opponents read this.

02.18.2021

The House Judiciary Committee heard testimony on HB 2543 today. We had the usual collection of “angry women demanding action” all of whom misrepresented the facts and continued the fantasy that punishing the law abiding would prevent killers from killing.

As expected, Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese was there to earn his pay as a mouthpiece for Mike Bloomberg and testified in favor of preventing good people from buying guns.

The Oregon State Police also testified but were neutral on the bill. What was NOT neutral were the statistics they provided which prove beyond the slightest doubt that gun owners are getting the shaft by the background check system.

Another hearing for this bill will be scheduled for those who, once again, were prevented from testifying by the technical glitches in the “new and improved” remote testimony system being praised by Oregon Democrats.

On the other side of the virtual building the Senate Judiciary Committee has announced a hearing for yet another anti-rights bill.

SB 585 is scheduled for a hearing on Feb 24th in Senate Judiciary.

SB 585 should not be confused with SB 554 which is scheduled for a hearing on Feb 22nd with a “work session” scheduled for Feb 25th.

Unlike SB 554, which only places thousands of “public buildings,” and airports off limits to gun owners, SB 585 will place entire cities and counties off limits to gun owners.

SB 554 repeals Oregon’s “pre-emption” statute which limits the creation of anti-gun laws to the state legislature. Under SB 554, any locality will be able to write whatever gun laws they like.

Ban on concealed carry?  Check.

Ban on modern semi-autos? Check.

Permits to purchase firearms and ammo?  Check and check.

This bill has been the dream of anti-rights crazy Ginny Burdick from the moment preemption was passed years ago after Multnomah County banned modern rifles.

With gang violence out of control in Portland, and a mayor who is not only radically anti-gun but also an invertebrate who condones mob violence, you don’t need much imagination to visualize what’s going to happen to gun owners in Portland, and in fact all of Multnomah County if this passes.

There is no time to let up the pressure. While gun owners are being assaulted on many fronts, the most immediate battles (at least as of this very minute) will be fought in the Senate Judiciary Committee next week.

There are three strong pro gun allies on that committee.  Senators Kim Thatcher, Dallas Heard and Dennis Linthicum. They are outnumbered and no doubt being bombarded with hate from the anti-gun cabal.  A simple note of support to each would make a difference. Just, “thanks for standing up for my gun rights, never give up” is all it would take.

Personal notes and phone calls to legislators are always the best option. But, let’s face it. Many of our friends and supporters don’t even have electricity right now, so we understand how limited your options are.  Not only are you cut out of the legislative process, but taking action is so much harder. So if nothing else, please make use of this great tool to remind Republican leaders that they do NOT have to participate in the complete elimination of your rights:

“Free Roots” is and activist service that we trust and encourage you to use.  Click here to take action.

For those who have the time and means, we have attached a recent newsletter from Senator Kim Thatcher with info and details on how to be as involved as possible in a state determined to shut you out.

Please don’t let up now.

ADDED 02.18.2021

At least one county has stepped up. How about yours? This is from 2016 but was sent to us today by a Jackson County Commissioner as a reminder of their stand.

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