***************** "None of those shootings would have been stopped by background checks,said Johnson,the key opponent of last year's bill."*********************************************
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Fresh
off a victory in Washington state, a leading gun control group backed by
billionaire Michael Bloomberg is hoping to make Oregon its next prize
in a campaign to require gun sales to go through universal background
checks.
Everytown for
Gun Safety backed a voter-approved initiative in Washington last year
that made the state the 17th in the country to expand background checks
past the federal standard applying only to licensed gun dealers.
"This is our top priority," said the group's spokeswoman Erika Soto Lamb.
The
organization came out of a merger last year between Bloomberg's Mayors
Against Illegal Guns, and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
It has been spending tens of millions of dollars on political
operations.
Now its attention
is on Oregon, where the state Legislature narrowly failed to pass
legislation two years running to require background checks for private
gun sales.
According to state
records, Everytown spent nearly $600,000 on the 2014 election —
$450,000 in contributions to candidates and committees, and $110,000 on
other grassroots efforts.
Part of that was devoted to strengthening the Democratic majority in the state Senate, the key battleground.
Democrats
ended up expanding their majority by two seats to 18-12 in the Senate.
The party holds a stronger majority in the House. Gov. John Kitzhaber, a
Democrat, is a longtime supporter and is expected to sign the bill if
it passes.
"There's a loophole there that can be closed," said Lamb.Oregon voters extended background checks to require them for sales at gun shows in 2000.
Senate
Judiciary Chairman Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, plans to introduce
legislation to expand that to private gun sales. The bill would require
anyone selling a gun privately to call state police for a background
check on criminal history and mental illness. It would exclude sales
among family members, inheritances and antique guns.
"I want to put closure on the only loophole we have on the
background check law," said Prozanksi, a native Texan who owns a few
guns. "Most all of us gun owners, as well as the general public, believe
we should take reasonable steps to stop felons from getting easy access
to guns. This will do that."
Opponents include Democratic state Sen. Betsy Johnson of Scappoose and the National Rifle Association.
"The NRA is not privy to the specifics of the legislation, but Oregonians should not be fooled by the rhetoric from out of state gun control groups funded by New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg," NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said in a statement. "They are pushing an extreme anti-gun agenda that seeks to curtail Oregonians' constitutional right to self-defense."
Under
federal law, background checks through the National Instant Criminal
Background Check System are required for sales by licensed gun dealers,
but not at gun shows or private transactions. The checks target
convicted felons, people under indictment, the mentally ill, drug users,
people under restraining orders, dishonorably discharged veterans and
people in the country illegally. But not all states report mental health
records to the system.
About 40 percent of Oregon households have guns. And the state has had its share of horrifying shootings.
In 1998, Kip Kinkel went to his high school in Springfield with
guns his parents bought to teach him to shoot. He opened fire on the
cafeteria, killing two and wounding 25.
In
2012, three days before the deadly Newtown, Connecticut, school
shooting, Jacob Tyler Roberts took a stolen semi-automatic AR-15 rifle
to the Clackamas Town Center mall outside Portland, where he killed two
people and wounded one before killing himself.
Last June, high
school freshman Jared Michael Padgett took his brother's assault-style
rifle to school. He killed a student and wounded a teacher before
killing himself.
None of those shootings would have been stopped by background checks, said Johnson, the key opponent of last year's bill.
"It
puts law abiding citizens at a significant disadvantage," she said.
"And it does not touch the problem, which in most cases involves
severely mentally ill, disaffected, alienated young people causing
mayhem."
These people will never,ever stop-unless we allow them to attain their goal of a complete ban on all civilian ownership of firearms.
They are going to keep doing this shit state by state,and every state that they succeed in passing "universal background checks" and/or "safe storage" laws,CAP laws,banning "assault rifles" and on and on-we will have no gun rights.
Gun owners HAVE to get involved,we have to stop these people,they have succeeded in finding a weak point-and they are going all out with their offensive. So far,they won in Washington state,and are working on Nevada,Oregon and Vermont,and they will keep going,even if they lose in one state-they are just going to go down their list,putting as many as they can in the W column.
They know they can't this bullshit passed in DC,that's why they're going state by state,and going all out with their propaganda campaign before gun owners even find out they have filed the paperwork to get this horsepucky on the ballot.
Anyone who lives in any of the states that Bloomberg and Ms. Watts attack needs to get everyone they know to call,write,and e-mail their state representatives as soon as it's discovered these enemies of the Constitution and our rightful liberty are trying to impose these draconian measures on others because of their hoplophobia,and their dreams of everything suddenly being rainbows,unicorns,puppies and butterflies if they could just ban guns.
The rest of the states on their list...
http://starvinlarry.com/2014/12/04/bloomberg-gun-control-group-targets-more-than-12-states/
The rest of the states on their list...
http://starvinlarry.com/2014/12/04/bloomberg-gun-control-group-targets-more-than-12-states/
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