Got this first.
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02.27.17
You may recall in 2016, Senator Floyd Prozanski introduced SB 1551.
This piece of legislation bordered on the surreal. It was something that would have been considered too extreme for the Cold War Kremlin.
Basically, it allowed people with zero qualifications to make anonymous accusations that resulted in lost gun rights for whoever they accused of experiencing a "mental health emergency."
If this accusation was made against you, you not only lost your right to buy a firearm, but you were not even allowed to know this accusation was made against you or by whom. If you wanted to challenge it, it would be totally at your expense. This bill was flat out evil and typical of the kind of attack we have come to expect from Prozanski.
Thanks to your hard work and activism this bill died the death it so richly deserved.
We have just received a draft for a bill that attempts to recreate the goals of SB 1551. This is a draft only and has not yet been introduced as a bill. We will keep an eye out to see if it is introduced.
While the draft does include some safeguards against the malicious abuses we certainly would have seen under SB 1551, it is still a horribly drafted and pointless attack on gun owners.
Most of the things a court could take into account to take away your guns and your gun rights are already disqualifiers for firearm's possession.
We do not know who is behind this at this time. But we do know that if this is introduced as a bill, there is a great likelihood that efforts will be made to amend it to use it as a weapon against all gun owners.
Please contact Senate President Peter Courtney and tell him that LC 1768 is a dangerous idea that could easily morph into a SB 1551 type attack on all gun owners. Remind Courtney that the reckless behavior of past legislatures has Oregon facing billions of dollars in debt, and any rational lawmaker should be concentrating on fixing that.
Courtney's contact info is:
Phone: 503-986-1600
Email  [email protected]
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then got this email mail today.
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02.28.17

Yesterday we told you about LC 1767 , a draft for a bill that would allow a "household member" or law enforcement agent to request that a person's guns and rights be taken away if they convinced a court that the person was an "extreme risk."

Today we can report that the draft has been introduced as SB 868

It's no surprise that Ginny Burdick is one of the bill's sponsors. The other sponsor however, is Senator Brian Boquist who has long been a supporter of gun rights.

While the Boquist's sponsorship is no doubt well intentioned, we still believe the bill is both misguided and counter productive. Many of the factors a court could take into account for revoking a person's Second Amendment rights would already disqualify them from having a firearm, but the court is also allowed to consider whether the accused acquired or attempted to acquire a firearm or ammunition in the last 180 days!

That could be many of us and is a pretty scary reason to take someone's rights and property away.

Given the anti-gun bias prevalent in Oregon courts, especially in Multnomah County, this bill has the potential to be very dangerous.

Please contact Senate President Peter Courtney and tell him that SB 868 is a bad idea. Point out that while the bill claims to be, in part, an effort to prevent suicide, there is nothing in it that restricts the accused's rights to have prescription drugs, knives or car keys. Instead of seeking real solutions, this bill is just another attempt to demonize gun owners.

Courtney's contact info is:
Phone: 503-986-1600
Email  [email protected]
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The Dems are up to their old tricks.

Is that fuck face Boquist trying to commit suicide here?  How long ago was he in Dallas, the area he supposedly represents?  I'm in Dallas several times a month for work and interact with the people who live there.  I guaranfuckingtee you that 4/5 of them are pro-2A.  

This type of nonsense is total bullshit.  We have a state that cannot afford to pay its PERS much farther into the future and is in very real danger of financial ruin because of a refusal to address economic issues, and this type of idiocy does not address those real-world problems.  

Someone tell me how this hogwash he's co-sponsoring with that shrew Ginny Burdick relates to this statement from his state-provided webpage, "The work during this 180 day session is primarily focused on the biennial budget, establishing new policy for agency direction, addressing citizen issues before the legislature  and making needed technical fixes to bills passed in the last legislative session."  I suppose it's easier to look busy fucking around with answers to questions no one is asking than it is to grow some fucking balls and tackle the state budget.  Again I say, this man is a fuck face.  I hope the voters in Dallas send this clown packing.  He's been working in politics since 1996 or so, and that's damned long enough.  

/rant.  At least for now.