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.