On July 18th, Initiative Petition 40 was filed in Oregon to restrict the Second Amendment rights of law abiding adults by imposing a broad, one-size-fits-all method of storing firearms.
This egregious attack on our freedoms uses virtually the same language as the failed Initiative Petition 44 from 2018 as well as the same provisions from Senate Bill 978 that did not pass during the 2019 legislative session. Anti-gun proponents will stop at nothing to restrict self-defense rights in Oregon, and will be using this initiative petition in an attempt to coerce legislators to pass gun control during the 2020 short session.
Initiative Petition 40 would require all firearms to be locked with a trigger-locking device or kept in a locked container, unless carried by the possessor of a firearm, with each firearm constituting a separate violation. Anyone who has their firearms lost or stolen would be strictly liable for any injury to persons or property committed using the firearm within four years if the firearms were not stored in compliance with the law. Firearm owners would also be held liable for any injury occurring within four years that results from a firearm transferred to another individual if the firearm was not transferred in a locked container or with a locking device.
Gun safety and storage is a matter of personal responsibility and every person’s situation is different. It is unreasonable for the law to impose a one-size-fits-all solution. This poorly thought out initiative is without any consideration for personal circumstances. This intrusive initiative invades people’s homes and forces them to render their firearms useless in a self-defense situation by locking them up.
This initiative will also require firearm owners to report lost or stolen firearms within 24 hours or face charges, with each firearm constituting a separate offense. In addition, firearm owners who do not report their firearms lost or stolen will be held liable for any injury that occurs within 5 years involving those firearms. A firearm owner should not be held liable for the crimes committed by a person who has illegally obtained their firearm. Individuals should not be further victimized after experiencing a burglary or other loss.
The day is quickly coming folks. Immense choices will have to be made.
The liberals want to render us completely defenseless against the government and the parasitic hordes that they invite into our country.
“The liberals want to render us completely defenseless…”
You’re joking, right?
Pay VERY CLOSE ATTENTION to what Ned Beatty tells Mark Wahlberg about THAT particular facet of BRAINWASHING by the NWO…
https://youtu.be/c3sw8QVzDQc
This should have been a direct reply… don’t know how it failed to do so.
Too much MNT, I suspect.
“This poorly thought out initiative is without any consideration for personal circumstances.”
Hardly.
They’ve been thinking this sh#t out for a VERY long time.
“This intrusive initiative invades people’s homes and forces them to render their firearms useless in a self-defense situation by locking them up.”
Helloooooo…
This one gets the middle finger… as it so richly deserves.
We are going to be forced to defend ourselves against these criminals in suits with their pens and papers claiming rights and authorities over us that they can not possibly ever have, had nor will ever have…!
So, which enforcers desire to trade all they ever had, all they have and all they will ever have to enforce the desired tyranny of the suits..?