Baker City Council voted this week to continue fighting to protect Second Amendment Rights
By Garrett Christensen on Thursday, October 13th, 2022 in More Top Stories Northeastern Oregon News
BAKER CITY – (Release from the City Council of Baker City) The Baker City Council this week voted to continue fighting to protect Second Amendment rights of citizens. Mayor Kerry McQuisten noted in a social media post that a letter against gun sales ban Ballot Measure 114 will go out to media and across Oregon.
The letter, in its entirety, can be read below.
“We, your Mayor and City Council, encourage you to vote NO on Measure 114.
This measure is a defacto gun sales ban in the state of Oregon. Earlier this year, we resolved as a body to protect your Second Amendment Rights, and we continue to do so. This measure tells us we have to get permission from the government to exercise our constitutional rights, which opposes the very structure our founding fathers built our Republic upon.
Measure 114 requires a permit and training just to apply for a background check. This step requires live-fire training, which you cannot do without a firearm, which you can’t get until you finish the permit and training! If you’re thinking about borrowing a firearm, SB554 has already severely limited that ability.
There is little to no funding in place for and nowhere to complete this training. There’s no one other than generalized “law enforcement” assigned to provide the training or permit; it will take an estimated $50 million in funding to set up this process, and up to $200 million to provide facilities. Neither amount has been budgeted.
The fee to you for the permit can be unlimited. The information that can be required by the permit-issuer is open-ended. You can be asked for your personal contact information, photo, psychological evaluation, IQ test, fingerprints, daily schedule, political party, religious beliefs, favorite foods – anything the permit-issuer feels necessary! This information will be put into a database to be published publicly every year.
Even if you get your permit and training, there would be no time limit on background check processing. Your background check might be delayed … indefinitely.
Magazines of over 10 rounds would be banned. Like your little old tube-fed .22 that holds 13 rounds, or your shotgun? You won’t be able to buy a new one. And you will only be able to use the one you have on your own property or while in the process of hunting.
Inheritance of firearms would become nearly impossible. If your next of kin is found to not have the proper permit/background check in place, law-enforcement might destroy the firearms passed down in the will.
It takes no real effort to see that the effect of 114 will be gun stores closing across the state due to this sales ban, while taking away your ability to defend yourself.
We each took an oath of office swearing to uphold the Constitution. Measure 114 violates all of our 2A rights and must be defeated. Please join us in voting no.”
