03.30.2023
HB 2005-1 passed out of a House Committee today and is headed to the floor for a vote. (SB 348, scheduled to move today has been held over until Monday.)
HB 2005-1 bans possession of personally manufactured firearms and “undetectable firearms” which together comprise the legendary “ghost guns”.
Ghost guns are like other ghosts. You can’t see them, you can’t touch them, they cannot be X-Rayed, and adults know they are not real. But they still terrify children and ignorant legislators.
The language in this bill is so poorly crafted it’s impossible to respond to, but suffice to say it’s created a legal minefield, not least because US Courts have already declared these kinds of laws to be unconstitutional. Firearms you made and possess legally are NOT exempted.
The bill also places vast new swaths of Oregon off limits to concealed handgun license holders and places them at risk just for being close to some public buildings.
In addition, it outlaws the sale of modern firearms to young adults and the possession of those firearms if the owner cannot “prove” they owned it before the effective date of the bill. The bill, as you might expect, has an “emergency clause” which means it takes effect the minute our obsessively anti-gun governor signs it.
Under the language of the bill the state does not have to prove you are guilty. You must prove your innocence.
Yesterday the House Democrats voted down 7 bills that would have increased safety for school children.
These included bills that would have funded school resource officers, hired retired cops to protect kids, and beefed up security for schools.
Senator Prozanski, the architect of SB 348, is on the record opposing metal detectors, even while demanding that licensed adults be prohibited from being armed in our increasingly dangerous schools.
There is simply no conclusion a rational person can reach except that the Democrats want more kids to die. Dead kids promote the Democrat’s agenda of making the law abiding defenseless. Meanwhile they are also doing all they can to reward violent thugs.
HB 2005-1 will soon be scheduled for a vote on the House Floor.
If the Republicans are present when this bill is voted on, it will pass. Period.
Then it will be sent to the other chamber where it will pass again.
If the people we elected to protect our rights are present the day this bill is voted on, it becomes law. If they are not, the bill cannot be voted on. Voting “no” is not enough.
It’s not pretty but it’s not complicated. The Republicans have a choice. Do they do what they think is best for their political futures (as they have in recent sessions) or do they do what they must do to preserve your rights and your freedom?
Ask them.