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Ballot Measure 114.
What It Does
The measure outright bans the new purchase of most sporting shotguns because of the
magazine capacity limit. Most shotguns which have tubular magazines can hold more than 10
“mini shells” making them illegal to purchase. This will have a profound effect on youth trap
and skeet shooting in Oregon.
The measure requires live fire training before a person can apply for a permit to purchase a
firearm. There are virtually no facilities that will be available for this training. For first time
gun buyers this could well require that you have a gun before you can get a permit to buy a
gun.
There are no exceptions for the permit to purchase requirement for police or Federally
licensed gun dealers.
The “permitting agent” can demand “any additional information” to issue the permit opening
up endless opportunities for abuses.
The measure only allows those approved by police to provide the required “training” to apply
for a permit. Police in Oregon are underfunded and understaffed. There is no plan in place to
actually provide any training and virtually no rural police have the facilities or manpower to
provide classes. Police in urban areas are already not responding to most violent crimes.
The Oregon State Sheriff’s Association has estimated that if a person
somehow could complete the required training, the permitting process would cost sheriffs
almost $40,000,000.00 annually. There is nothing in the measure that provides any funding and
the fees included would not come close to covering the costs. There is no estimate on the
cost or impact on small local police departments.
While the measure caps the cost for a permit, there are no caps on the costs for the
required training, which is unlikely to be available anyway. This will mostly affect low income
communities.
The measure requires that the required class (taught only by “law enforcement approved”
trainers) include training on state and federal law, transfers and storage, and the “impact of
suicide on the country as a whole.” There is no indication of who would be qualified to
instruct on these issues or how they become approved.
The measure requires that a sheriff or local police department issue a permit within 30 days
after a background check has been completed by the State Police. But there is NO limit on
how long the State Police can take to complete the background check and NO penalties if
they do not complete it. There are no estimates of the cost of these checks to the State
Police.
The measure requires a public list of persons who attempt to purchase firearms. Victims of
domestic violence will be at risk for all their private information being made public along with
their efforts to purchase a firearm for self defense.
The measure creates a whole new category of victimless crimes at time when the police are
grossly underfunded and real criminals are being released onto our streets.
The measure requires a permit from local police (which may be impossible to get) just
to apply for permission from the Oregon State Police simply to buy a firearm. But it also
removes the one safeguard that protects gun buyers if the State Police do not complete their
background check.
State and Federal law allow the transfer of a firearm if the state police don’t complete a
background check in 3 business days. This measure removes that safeguard. So a single mom
with threats against her and her children could literally wait forever to get permission to get a
home defense firearm.
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