04.10.2023
The time has come.
HB 2005 could be voted in on the House Floor as early as tomorrow. It received its “Second Reading” today. That was the last stop before a vote.
There is no more time for games and no more time for excuses.
Under this bill all AR-15 style firearms, and countless others no doubt, will be banned from sale or transfer in Oregon. Possession of any AR-15 style rifle will be outlawed.
This is because the geniuses in the Oregon Legislature have redefined what a “receiver” (meaning a “firearm”) is.
Now, previously-unregulated parts of firearms will require serial numbers that “have been imprinted …by a federally licensed firearm manufacturer, importer or dealer, or a gunsmith with a federal firearms license, in accordance with federal law.”
But Federal law does not require serial numbers on the parts of firearms this law now regulates.
The bill ends Second Amendment Rights for 18-20 year olds despite the fact that the Democrats KNOW this has been found to be unconstitutional. Furthermore it will ban licensed concealed carry in vast parts of the state since any government owned building and nearby property can be declared off limits.
If you have ever attended a rally at the Capitol you know that all the buildings that surround the park across the street from the Capitol building are state buildings. They will certainly soon all be off limits. Licensed, armed gun owners will essentially be banned from any rallies just as they have been banned from the Capitol Building itself.
We are going to make this crystal clear. If the Republicans are on the floor when this bill is voted on, it will pass and anything the Republicans say about it won’t mean a damn thing. They can whine all they want about how they will “strongly oppose” it and give whatever fiery speeches they like. But they will have essentially voted “YES” simply by being there.
House Republican Leader Vikki Breese Iverson has just declared her “friendship” with the people who are pushing this insane elimination of your rights.
If Iverson allows her members to be on the House Floor for a vote on this bill it will be obvious that her “friendship” with the gun grabbers is far more important to her than the rights of the people who elected Republicans.
This is Iverson’s last chance to step up. Please call her today and tell her your rights are more important than her “friendship” with the people who are destroying this state.
Vikki Breese Iverson
503-986-1459