Opinion
This week HB 3076, the gun store shut-down bill, passed out of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Capitol Construction and on to the full Ways and Means Committee.
The lawyer who drafted it was at the work session and admitted she could not answer simple questions about the content of the bill.
Amendments were adopted to appropriate millions of your tax dollars to enforce the new restrictions on gun dealers. (Millions of dollars buy a lot of tents for the fentanyl community.). However, no one knows what all of those restrictions will be.
While the bill has new requirements for “training”, background checks, and mandatory video surveillance (with years of retentions of the videos), it leaves to the Department of Justice the role of creating those rules.
It also tasks the Department of Justice with “on-site inspections, in accordance with this section, of each state license holder’s place of business to ensure that the licensee is complying with the requirements to hold a state license.”
Also:
“The department may conduct reasonable periodic unannounced inspections of a retailer licensee’s place of business during the retailer licensee’s regular business hours.”
The Department of Justice also gets to:“adopt rules for the secure storage of firearms and ammunition by retailer licensees and other licensees in a manner that prevents unauthorized access.”
We need not point out the Department of “Justice” is a collection of “lawyers” not security experts. Nor do we need to point out the Department of “Justice” is run by an extreme left wing anti-gunner who has spent millions of dollars of your taxes to enact a ban on firearms components and a permitting scheme that will all but eliminate legal gun transfers in Oregon.
But if you have any concerns about how draconian and convoluted these new rules will be, don’t you worry. Democrat House Rep Jason Kropf, who displays his mind numbing ignorance of Oregon law on a daily basis, assured us they he knew of gun stores that “will have no problems with these regulations.” He did mention that some would have problems but they were likely breaking the law anyway.
Republican Senator Fred Girod said he believed the point of the bill was to make guns more expensive. We disagree. The bill is clearly designed to make guns unavailable.
Republican Senator Mike McLane, while opposing the bill did include in his remarks “When this bill passes…”
Whether that was a tacit admission that Senate Republicans have no intention of denying quorum and thus helping pass this bill remains to be seen. But it did not sound good. In a few days, Oregon Republicans will face no penalties for walking out and protecting your rights and the many businesses this bill is designed to destroy. Today, the Oregon House passed this resolution. We strongly encourage them to continue spending as much time as possible on bills like these as the clock keeps ticking.
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