Opinion
Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)- This week the NRA filed legal challenges against Initiative Petition 61 and Initiative Petition 62, which severely restricts and regulates commonly-owned firearms, making it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
NRA previously filed a legal challenge against Initiative Petition 60 on Friday. The legal challenges assert that the ballot titles violate Oregon law (ORS 250.035) by not alerting voters of the changes in the law proposed in the measures.
Initiative Petition 61 restricts many commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms it deems as “assault” firearms based on cosmetic features that do not fundamentally change how they operate. Semi-automatic firearms fire only one shot per action of the trigger, have been available to American consumers for over a century, and are used by law-abiding citizens for a wide range of legitimate purposes. It will become more difficult for law-abiding citizens to exercise their Second Amendment rights as this initiative imposes a mandatory waiting period, training requirement, and redundant background check before law-abiding citizens can take possession of the affected firearms. In addition, it denies young adults between age 18-20 their Second Amendment rights by prohibiting them from acquiring these firearms.
Initiative Petition 62 bans any magazines with a capacity greater than ten rounds of ammunition. Magazines that hold more than ten rounds are standard equipment for commonly-owned firearms that many Americans legally and effectively use for an entire range of legitimate purposes, such as self-defense or competition. While citizens who own banned magazines prior to the effective date are “grandfathered” and are allowed to retain them, the restrictions make them unusable for self-defense. Pre-ban magazines may not be loaded into a firearm during transport and are subject to one-size-fits-all storage requirements.
Please stay tuned to www.nraila.org and your email inbox for further updates on these initiatives and other issues affecting our Second Amendment rights in Oregon.
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Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the “lobbying” arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Visit: www.nra.org
“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Any law or whim or wimp that does is illegal; Mayberry vs Madison. Why aren’t these people, the people that legislate, judge, lawyer, enforce or finance illegal laws going to jail? I hope the courts wake up soon and prosecute these socialists before it’s too late because the only options past court are; socialism, slavery, poverty etc. or a 140 million righteous firearm owners settling “out of court.”
Arm up, carry on.
I find it ironic that the NRA put in their amazon ads in the article here on Ammoland. And this is how we supposedly “get in the fight.”
What? The NRA is coming out of its shell to oppose something? Knock me out with a feather.
It’s the same ol’ story: as long as these rats remain in office, they will continue to do what they do.
Oregon Firearms Federation and grassroots Oregonians fight for years and decades against ever-tightening restrictions. NRA swoops in at the last moment to “compromise” all that hard work away and loudly proclaim “victory”.
So exactly when do we take their firearms & weapons ? When do we limit what they sell around the world ? Until we can decide as a nation what other countries are entitled to from the Military Industrial Complex people will lose rights. They are the ones starting these proxy wars, pissing the world off at us. So I will attain my measly semiautomatics. They gave North Korea Nukes & we seen how well that has worked. And if that wasn’t enough they gave them to Iran. That was a real NO brainier there. But yeah let’s disarm the… Read more »