Submitted by Chris Brumbles,
Douglas County to join us in becoming a Sanctuary County for Guns

  Today, 6/20/18, the Douglas County Commissioners decided to put the Second Amendment Preservation Ordinance on the November ballot to let the people of their county step up and protect their RIGHTS against the tyrants in Salem. Come November, Douglas will join Columbia County in becoming a sanctuary county for guns once the votes are tallied. We are working with 27 counties at the present time, so hopefully more dreams will be fulfilled by November.

  I would personally like to thank the Douglas County Commissioners for doing their jobs and having the wisdom to protect the RIGHTS of their citizens; something that our own Commissioners refused to do twice. There were the usual anti-american haters of Natural Born Rights at the commissioners meeting today, but in the end, the commissioners didn’t cave to the pressure and did the right thing.

  To these hating Ameriphobes who would steal your RIGHTS, I just want to say leave the country. If you don’t like Liberty, go. Most of you are tax eating freeloaders that don’t contribute anything but misery anyway…giiiit. You will not be missed.

  Let’s turn out in record numbers in November and pass measure 5-270, (the Second Amendment Preservation Ordinance), by more than 70% and send a huge message to the usurpers and the morons who are pushing IP 43 and IP 44. Do not listen to the scared left who are trying to convince you that this law doesn’t matter, or that it will be challenged. We are prepared for whatever happens and will never give up our RIGHTS…or yours. Every time people have fought for Liberty in history, the people have won because Liberty is the inherent possession of the people and is popular…slavery is not.
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In Liberty,
Chris Brumbles
Columbia County Coordinator
Oregon Firearms Federation
Founder, Oregon Irregulars 3%   ​

Help Stop Gun Confiscation in Oregon!

Dear Second Amendment Supporters, 

A Pro-gun lawsuit by the Oregon Firearms Federation may be the only thing blocking a November ballot measure which would essentially ban a good portion of the guns in Oregon -- without any grandfather clause.

In April, GOA alerted you to this nightmarish legislation.   

As we said then, ballot measure IP43 would ban -- retroactively -- the most popular firearms in the country, starting with semi-automatic rifles and many semi-automatic pistols. 

In fact, the measure is so extreme, some lever action rifles could be banned!

The same is true for magazines.

You could keep your guns and magazines -- for now -- if you registered with the government (like a sex offender) and if you didn't use your guns for hunting or any plinking.

Ballot measure IP 44 would require you to lock up any firearm you were not actually carrying making the useless for self-defense for you or any member of your household no matter how qualified and authorized they were.

Basically, you could keep your guns in a vault until they rusted away.

But how, you ask, could the "gun confiscation folks" convince Oregonians to go along with such a fascist scheme?
The answer is: BY LYING.

By fraudulently stating that the guns they are confiscating are "military-style" assault weapons, like the fully automatic M16 and M4. By telling voters that locking up firearms will keep people safe when we know it can get people killed.

The Oregon Firearms Federation has filed challenges to both measures based on the misleading language Oregon's anti-gun Attorney General used in the ballot "titles."

They are challenging the gun grabbers' fraudulent description of these two dangerous measures.

The Oregon Supreme Court has already attempted to fast-track IP 43 but has been slowed down by the quick action of OFF's lawyers. However, the court has bypassed its own rules to fast track IP 44 in an effort to give the gun grabbers every advantage.

The Oregon Firearms Federation needs your financial support to fund their legal actions to protect gun owners. If these measures reach the ballot, they will become a templet for similar ballot measure across the country, so your help is urgently needed.

With a little effort now -- and a little financial support -- we may be able to sidetrack a much bigger problem later on.
Please support the Oregon Firearms Federation lawsuit by donating to OFF here.
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In Liberty,
Erich Pratt
Executive Director
Follow me on Twitter at: erichmpratt
P.S. Don't let the gun grabbers gain an easy victory at the polls by lying to the electorate. Please help support the OFF lawsuit to stop the state from confiscating commonly-owned firearms!

The Second Amendment Preservation Ordinance initiative was challenged in Grant County for bundling four subjects when an initiative can only cover one subject according to the Oregon state constitution.  Those reasons include four subjects: 1) redefining the constitutional definition of firearms to include ammunition and accessories; 2) making any gun-restricting law in Grant County unconstitutional; 3) expanding the sheriff’s statutory duties; and 4) prohibiting the sheriff from enforcing any law that restricts the right of people to possess firearms.

The County certified the initiative, so they will have to defend the challenge in court.  The challenge and the county's response is included in the following post.  It makes good reading for anyone interested in learning the legislative process at the local level....Rob T.

Initiative Petition

The Elections Division received a certified ballot title from the
Attorney General on May 31, 2018, for Initiative Petition 2018-044, proposed for the November 6, 2018, General Election.

Caption
Requires firearms be locked during storage/transfer, loss reported, minors' use supervised; imposes penalties/liabilities

Chief Petitioners
Henry Wessinger 1000 SW Vista Ave #1105 Portland, OR 97205
Vincenza Passalacqua 1704 19th St. NW #9 Washington, DC 20009
Paul Kemp 8710 SE 137th Avenue Happy Valley, OR 97086


Appeal Period
Any registered voter, who submitted timely written comments on the draft ballot title and is dissatisfied with the certified ballot title issued by the Attorney General, may petition the Oregon Supreme Court to review the ballot title.


If a registered voter petitions the Supreme Court to review the ballot title,
the voter must notify the Elections Division by completing and filing form
SEL 324 Notice of Ballot Title Challenge. If this notice is not timely filed, the petition to the Supreme Court may be dismissed.


Appeal Due
June 14, 2018


How to Submit Appeal
Refer to Oregon Rules of Appellate Procedure, Rule 11.30 or contact the Oregon Supreme Court for more information at 503.986.5555.


Notice Due
1st business day after appeal filed with Supreme Court, 5 pm


How to Submit Notice
Scan and Email to [email protected]
Fax to 503.373.7414
Mail to 255 Capitol St NE Ste 501, Salem OR 97310    


More information, including the certified ballot title and the Secretary of State's determination that the proposed initiative petition is in compliance with the procedural requirements established in the Oregon Constitution for initiative petitions, is contained in the IRR Database available at www.oregonvotes.gov.

Note from the Editor: 
Most people may not know that the Committee to Preserve the Second Amendment has been working since 2016 to convince the Douglas County commissioners to enact the SAPO measure, but like most politicians, they were hesitant to take that risk for the people of their county.     

Like many OR county commissioners, they tried to appease their constituents by enacting a symbolic resolution, which was a compromise and did very little to create a legitimate local law that would preserve the Right to Bear Arms. 

​The commissioners had one problem that was moving into their county, and that would be the Southern Regional Coordinator of our group, Mr. Tom McKirgan.  After battling politicians from both parties for three years on this issue, he was going to make sure the commissioners heard his argument, and he was not going to let them off easy.  Tom is a former lawman and full-time patriot.    

Almost upon arriving in Douglas County, Mr. McKirgan constantly reminded the commissioners of their duty to do something more significant in their county.  In March of 2018 when IP43 & IP44 appeared, the commissioners realized they were facing a new threat to the second amendment rights of their county’s residents, so the board decided to hear out the Committee to Preserve the Second Amendment. 
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Thanks to Mr. Tom McKirgan, the Douglas County BOC will be referring the SAPO to the ballot box in the General Election.  The people of Douglas County owe a debt of appreciation for his diligence.   
Loyal friends are the most indispensable necessity in the fight against tyranny….Rob Taylor

On June 6th and June 20th, the Douglas County Board of Commissioners will hold public hearings on the recently proposed Second Amendment Preservation Ordinance, or SAPO. 
 
It is the same ordinance that has been sweeping Oregon in response to state measures IP-43 which bans “assault-style” firearms, large capacity magazines and requires gun registration with the state police, and IP-44, which requires unacceptable trigger locking mechanisms for storage and transport, effectively making home and self-defense nearly impossible.
 
How do you like the state telling you not to protect yourself, your family, and others with legally owned firearms while turning you into a felon overnight?
 
I am the Southern Oregon Coordinator for the Committee to Preserve the Second Amendment and had the honor to present the SAPO to the Board of Commissioners for their consideration in placing it on the November 2018 ballot. Oregonians are fed up with the continued relentless assaults on our inherent right to keep and bear arms, and we are not taking it sitting down. We are telling the entire state that our county WILL NOT COMPLY with any law that violates the Supreme Law of the Land; the U.S. and Oregon Constitutions.   
 
Any legislation not made in pursuance of the Constitution cannot exist and is invalid from inception.
 
Laws coming out of Salem and Portland are based solely on feel-good emotions, not rights.  When was the last time you heard of criminals obeying gun laws?   The law-abiding will follow these orders, but only to the point of government becoming destructive to their liberty.  
 
There are over 20,000 “common sense” gun laws on the books and not one of them has prevented or will ever prevent a single gun-related death. How will two more liberal gun laws solve the problems they cite? Then there will be three more proposed laws behind them and five more behind those. It will never end until We the People take control of our destiny with the ballot box.
 
Americans cannot callously ignore that too many have lost their tomorrows to preserve our liberty today.  It is now our fundamental responsibility to ensure the same freedoms for our children and beyond just as it was with the founders of this great nation.  The Second Amendment holds the same level of protection as every one of the other nine amendments in the Bill of Rights.  The attacks on it stop here in Douglas, a Second Amendment Sanctuary County.
 
Tom McKirgan
Douglas County