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PA Bill Number: HB777

Title: In firearms and other dangerous articles, further providing for definitions and providing for the offense of sale of firearm or firearm parts without ...

Description: In firearms and other dangerous articles, further providing for definitions and providing for the offense of sale of firearm or firearm parts without ...

Last Action: Third consideration and final passage (104-97)

Last Action Date: Mar 27, 2024

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Are Democrats dangerously delusional about background checks? :: 04/27/2015

A comment the other day by Oregon Rep. Dan Rayfield (D-Corvallis) reported by the Albany Democrat Herald Thursday seems to sum up what many in the Second Amendment community have decided is a dangerously delusional attitude about a proposed “universal background check” bill now headed to the full House in Salem.

“We still need to close the loopholes,” Rayfield said, according to the newspaper. “Criminals, as was noted, are still going to attempt to purchase guns. Right now if they can't go through the traditional means they go to private sales, online markets, to gain access to these guns.”

Does this guy, or any of his colleagues, have a clue about how criminals really obtain most of their firearms? Does he understand that criminals don’t give a rip about background checks? That’s a question many Beaver State gun owners are probably asking themselves, especially those who attended Wednesday’s marathon public hearing on Senate Bill 941. That’s the measure essentially cloned from what anti-gunners learned about selling background checks from the Initiative 594 campaign here in Washington last year.

It passed out of committee Thursday on a 5-4 party line vote, the newspaper noted, and now the National Rifle Association is rousing the troops to contact their lawmakers. The NRA noted in an alert that opposition to the measure was led Wednesday by some impressive talent including two county sheriffs and several county commissioners.

Yet the Democrats, who have the majority on the committee, and in the House, passed it out of committee. The NRA and other Second Amendment groups including the Oregon Firearms Federation, have called SB 941 a gun registration scheme.

If the measure becomes law, do not expect anti-gunners to be satisfied. They will come back for more, using the momentum of a victory to further their agenda of Second Amendment erosion.

The NRA is urging its Oregon members to contact their legislators. To find out the names of those lawmakers, click here.

On Saturday at the Washington Arms Collectors gathering in Puyallup, members were continuing to lament passage of I-594 last November, and several remarked that they want to see it overturned. That law is being challenged in federal court in Tacoma on constitutional grounds by the Second Amendment Foundation and several others. Oregonians might look north of the Columbia River to get a hint about what may be waiting over their horizon.

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