Lawmakers give up on major Ore. gun control bills
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Gun control advocates in the Oregon Legislature are abandoning bills to outlaw the sale of semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity gun magazines.
Democratic Sen. Floyd Prozanski tells the Eugene Register-Guard such measures are unlikely to pass in Oregon and would work better at the federal level.
Instead, he says, the Judiciary Committee he chairs will take up four proposals.
They would forbid holders of concealed handgun licenses to take weapons to public elementary and secondary schools; prevent them from taking their weapons into the state Capitol; expand required background checks to include gun sales between private individuals, except for "immediate family" members; and require "live-fire" training for concealed handgun licenses.
The schools measure would allow individual districts to opt out and continue to allow license holders to bring weapons.
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Information from: The Register-Guard.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
Sponsored by Representative GREENLICK; Representatives BAILEY, BUCKLEY, DEMBROW, FREDERICK, READ,
REARDON, TOMEI, Senators BURDICK, DINGFELDER, HASS, MONNES ANDERSON, MONROE, SHIELDS,
STEINER HAYWARD
these are the people that need to be removed.
Interesting. There must be a communications problem in the legislature, since HB 3200 is still being considered and hasn't been cancelled. HB 3200 needs to be removed from consideration. It is blatantly unconstitutional and has a provision that violates the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution.
Take a look at the bill. http://www.leg.state.or.us/13reg/measpdf/hb3200.dir/hb3200.intro.pdf
@Saltire Thank you for the link. I just printed it out and am reading it now. Insane!
@Reflect that is insane...I agree, the people in support of this need to be removed form there position as they are not for protecting our constitution
I am thinking that there are going to be a lot of "Dead confiscators" and a "Civil War".
Buy a shotgun!
Oh except they lied and they really aren't. They're going full speed ahead with HB 3200 which is a ban, registration, confiscation, and warrantless search of gun owners' homes all roled into one.
This is a "good news / bad news" story. Good that they've come to their senses a bit about personal defense weapons, but bad that they still seek to, among other things, permanently expose children to whatever idiot decides to shoot up their school because he's gone off his meds.
@Len Karpinski Nothing like letting criminals know where defenseless victims are...
I will vote adamantly against ANY of this knee-jerk bullstuff.  How about finding an actual solution to the problem?Â
Banning guns from the capitol, or in other words punishing us for their perceiving us protecting our rights as insolence.
As for making schools even more of a gun free zone, how nice of Burdick and Prozanski to make it clear they're on the side of spree killers.
If they want to make it so only law enforcement can carry weapons on school property then they need also change the laws to make law enforcement liable for the safety or those in the schools and overturn that court ruling that doesn't allow us to sue the police for not being there to protect the children.
@John 97223Â The common law of the United States (ruling by the Supreme Court) says that police are not liable for safety of others. Â So any state law cannot force them to respond faster than law enforcement deems necessary to do so.
""""They would forbid holders of concealed handgun licenses to take weapons to public elementary and secondary schools; """"
And future deranged lunatics rejoiced........
Nothing like outlawing the ability of  people from defending themselves in locations that have a history of attracting lunatics.....