Oregon currently has senate bill 978 pending that would criminalize most gun owners.
It will:
SB 978 would create a patchwork of back alley gun control laws and eliminate Oregon’s pre-emption statute.
SB 978 would make you a felon if you traveled anywhere near any public building that chose to prohibit firearms, even if you had a concealed handgun license.
It would allow school districts, colleges and universities to make up policies concerning firearms in buildings they did not even own.
It would make traveling to and from an airport with a firearm, even with a concealed handgun license, a felony.
It would mandate that guns be locked up (already declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court) and allow you to be charged with a crime even if they were locked up and stolen.
It would make possession of many firearms made before 1968 a felony.
It would make possession of any gun you made yourself a felony. There is no provision for adding a serial number to a firearm you made yourself.
It would eliminate or severely restrict youth firearms programs.
It would require that all firearms “transferred” be equipped with cable or trigger locks and hold you responsible for crimes committed with any firearm that you transferred without such locks.
It would ban possession of “unfinished frames or receivers” which are so poorly defined the term could mean anything.
No amount of public opposition seems to be slowing its passing down. The Left owns a supermajority and will do as their lobbying overlords wish. They love to call the other side out on taking money, but have nothing to say to acknowledge their own contributions. These are just the payments from Bloomberg. Oregon Firearms Federation (our best local fighting ally), The Second Amendment Foundation, and Gun Owners of America combined have not even come close to matching Bloomberg in the same time period. We are "represented" by bought politicians, as are most people.
To the north in Wa, they have been under full assault. The populous of King County has been propagandized into voting their rights away. I1639 was illegally put on the ballot with purchased signatures, then passed by the blind liberals living in the big cities. This measure strips 18-20 year olds of their natural right to arms, redefines semi-autos as something to allow for more restrictions, places waiting periods on said "semi-automatic assault rifles", as well as many other ambiguous restrictions.
The latest up north was a bump stock buyback. Since Wa jumped to banning them before the ATF even considered it, they allocated some funding ($150k) for a buyback. It was to pay $150 per unit. The 1000 payments allotted were quickly gone through. The WSP had discretion on what was considered an eligible unit. Many with fully functional homemade devices were turned away. No one would comment officially if the homemade jobs were considered contraband or not. After the initial 1k payments, more funding was allocated, but it was to be given as a mailed check at a later date. These buybacks requested full identifying information from the participants. The officials were quiet about participation numbers up to this point.
It has now come out that the names and addresses of participants has been released to at least two people.
https://www.ar15.com/forums/hometown/Bumpstock-Buyback---Names-and-Addresses-Of-Participants-To-Be-Published-Online/15-633333/"This is a public records request.
I seek to inspect any and all completed WSP bump stock buy back forms.
I seek to obtain the names and addresses where checks will be mailed for the bump stock buy back program.
My intent is to create a searchable database and map of Washington state to overlay the locations.
The public has a right to know that these dangerous devices may have been in neighborhoods that they live in and who has previously owned such devices."
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Requestor 2 - Paul Holgate
PaulHolgate@Gmail.com
5120 W 3rd Avenue
Kennewick Wa., 98336
This is outrageous. The final line of that request makes me sick. It insinuates simply owning legal item makes you a dangerous person. This requester's goal is doxxing gun owners and painting them in a bad light. This is the first step in using the new red flag laws to attack law abiding citizens. This malicious opposition on rights needs to end now.