Oregon: Ask Senator to Oppose Anti-Gun Omnibus Bill HB 2005 B

On May 2nd, the House voted 35-24 (with 1 excused), along party lines, to pass House Bill 2005 B, the anti-gun package requested by Governor Tina Kotek and Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum that got combined into one omnibus bill. It now goes directly to the Senate, which has scheduled the first reading on the floor for May 3rd. Please contact your state senator and ask them to OPPOSE HB 2005 B.

House Bill 2005 B is the amended version of House Bill 2005 that also includes the provisions of House Bills 2006 and 2007. It goes above and beyond existing federal laws and regulations in restricting private individuals from making their own firearms for personal use, denies Second Amendment rights to young adults aged 18-20 by prohibiting them from possessing commonly owned semi-automatic firearms, and further degrades Oregon’s preemption law by permitting the governing body of a city, county, district or any other entity that falls within the definition of municipal corporation, to prohibit the otherwise lawful and licensed concealed carry in public buildings and on their “adjacent” grounds.

Dear [Lawmaker],

As a constituent, I ask you to please oppose House Bill 2005 B.
 
This bill seeks only to disarm us law-abiding citizens and to continue eroding our Second Amendment rights without improving public safety. Criminals, by definition, do not obey the law. Criminals already violate existing laws to obtain firearms and cause carnage. They will just ignore any new decrees from the Legislature as well. Please, instead, enforce existing laws on violent criminals, hold them responsible for their actions, get them off the streets, and keep them off the streets. 
 
HB 2005 B, goes beyond existing federal laws and regulations in restricting hobbyists from making their own firearms for personal use. It is already illegal for prohibited persons, such as felons, to possess any firearms, whether home-built or factory mass produced. It conflates lawfully home-built firearms with guns from which criminals have intentionally removed serial numbers with criminal intent. Its definitions are vague and do not give an ordinary person notice of what is being regulated, or when a piece of metal or plastic becomes "readily convertible" and therefore banned.  
 
Adults aged 18-20 are old enough to vote, enter into contracts, join the military without parent permission, and get married. It is unreasonable for something to deny them Second Amendment rights. There is no indication that this group of adults contributes to crime: this bill unjustifiably strips them of their rights. The average age of a person who commits a crime with a firearm is 39 years old. Many young adults in Oregon enjoy recreational shooting, hunting and their fundamental right to keep and bear arms for self-defense, as guaranteed by the Article 1, Section 27 of the United States Constitution.
 
Further repealing state preemption of firearm laws will only cause Oregon to have a more confusing patchwork of gun laws that will be impossible to comply with and citizens across the state to not have the same rights. Allowing localities to restrict carry will also create more arbitrary zones where law-abiding citizens are left defenseless against criminals who ignore such boundaries. Concealed carry permit holders are among Oregon’s most law-abiding citizens. They are not the problem.
 
I stand with the NRA in strong opposition to HB 2005 B and request your NAY vote.

Sincerely,
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As a constituent, I ask you to please oppose House Bill 2005 B.

This bill seeks only to disarm us law-abiding citizens and to continue eroding our Second Amendment rights without improving public safety. Criminals, by definition, do not obey the law. Criminals already violate existing laws to obtain firearms and cause carnage. They will just ignore any new decrees from the Legislature as well. Please, instead, enforce existing laws on violent criminals, hold them responsible for their actions, get them off the streets, and keep them off the streets.

HB 2005 B, goes beyond existing federal laws and regulations in restricting hobbyists from making their own firearms for personal use. It is already illegal for prohibited persons, such as felons, to possess any firearms, whether home-built or factory mass produced. It conflates lawfully home-built firearms with guns from which criminals have intentionally removed serial numbers with criminal intent. Its definitions are vague and do not give an ordinary person notice of what is being regulated, or when a piece of metal or plastic becomes "readily convertible" and therefore banned.

Adults aged 18-20 are old enough to vote, enter into contracts, join the military without parent permission, and get married. It is unreasonable for something to deny them Second Amendment rights. There is no indication that this group of adults contributes to crime: this bill unjustifiably strips them of their rights. The average age of a person who commits a crime with a firearm is 39 years old. Many young adults in Oregon enjoy recreational shooting, hunting and their fundamental right to keep and bear arms for self-defense, as guaranteed by the Article 1, Section 27 of the United States Constitution.

Further repealing state preemption of firearm laws will only cause Oregon to have a more confusing patchwork of gun laws that will be impossible to comply with and citizens across the state to not have the same rights. Allowing localities to restrict carry will also create more arbitrary zones where law-abiding citizens are left defenseless against criminals who ignore such boundaries. Concealed carry permit holders are among Oregon’s most law-abiding citizens. They are not the problem.

I stand with the NRA in strong opposition to HB 2005 B and request your NAY vote.