Posted on 03/21/2018 7:12:01 PM PDT by PROCON
SALEM, Ore. – A recently filed Oregon initiative would make manufacturing, importing, possessing, purchasing or selling an assault weapon or large capacity magazine a crime – with only a few exceptions.
If passed, Oregon Initiative 42 would only allow owners to keep their assault weapons and large capacity magazines if they register them with Oregon State Police.
If the initiative goes into effect, anyone who owns an assault weapon or large capacity magazine will be required to remove them from the state, sell the items, surrender the items to a law enforcement agency for destruction, render the assault weapon permanently inoperable or, if eligible, register the assault weapon or large capacity magazine with Oregon State Police within 120 days.
Anyone who moves into Oregon with an assault weapon would have 120 days to surrender it to law enforcement, transfer it to a licensed firearm dealer, render it permanently inoperable or register it.
Unlawful possession or transfer of an assault weapon or large capacity magazine would be a Class B felony.
In order to register an assault weapon under the act, the owner would need to submit a form to the Oregon State Police with the owner’s name and address and identification number of the assault weapon. The owner must also allow police to conduct a criminal background check to confirm the person is not a prohibited possessor.
(Excerpt) Read more at kimatv.com ...
Here is the text of the ballot measure. They’re intending to create their own definition of “Assault Weapon” based on various scary features and encompasses rifles, pistols, and shotguns with these features. Rimfire, too.
I can’t paste the text here, but it can be found at this link:
http://oregonvotes.org/irr/2018/042text.pdf
So unless the pistol shooters in Oregon are using a revolver or an old 1911 or a small conceal carry pistol that would mean all modern semi-automatic pistols because almost all of them have a double-stack magazine with a capacity greater than 10. Get ready to register your pistols. Then watch at point in the future, the state revoke the registration without reason and demand the pistol be surrendered.
Poorly drafted and/or overreaching legislation like this needs to stopped in its tracks.
On the other hand, if they dropped the maximum magazine capacity to 8, I could offer to babysit Dad's old Husqvarna M40 Luger that my brother in Oregon has. That's the least I could do to fight this fascism.
Agreed- NY passed their unconstitutional law, in the middle of the night, under the pretense of ‘imminent need’- They claimed the need was so great that they couldn’t wait for it to go to a vote by the people, but needed to act immediately in order to ‘save lives’
ThaT TACTIC is GOING TO BE USED OVER AND OVER AGAIN -woops cps lock- and this whole browards county issue is a massive push to enact gun laws based on ‘imminent need’- imminent need is an emotional knee jerk sentiment that the left are so adept at exploiting- and now that they have their new ‘victim class’ they are going to exploit it to the hilt- pulling on the heartstrings of liberals and women everywhere-
There have been in Oregon.
Whoops! I thought Oregon was a county in WA...{:-)
Just heard on Lars Larson that the chief petitioners on this initiative have withdrawn it.
There’s a Washington County in Ofegon. Allied Armament is in nearby Columbia County.
They just updated it to version 43. Not sure what changes have been made.
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