Oregon Republican Senate Leader Tim Knopp and Senator Brian Boquist sent Senate President Rob Wager a letter on Senate Bill 393-A. The new 7-page “gut and stuff” amendment to SB 393, which now incorporates gun regulations, passed out of the Senate Committee on Judiciary along partisan lines without the public’s input.

Kevin Starrett, Oregon Firearms Federation reports that the committee members had no idea what the bill does, but passed it to a floor vote anyway. He says, “In defending it, Prozanski took the bizarre position that it would save lives by adding a 72-hour waiting period before a person could take possession of a gun they bought. In his garbled explanation he could not even keep the different bills straight. What is clear, is that along with all the other elements of these bills, anyone with any firearm’s magazine will be subject to arrest after it becomes law.”

On the Senate floor, Senate Knopp said, “Yesterday, a chair you appointed to a Senate committee you created reported Senate Bill 393-A out of committee. It was introduced as a benign study bill. Neither the base bill, nor the [gun control] gut and stuff amendments ever received a public hearing. OLIS shows zero items of posted testimony. SB 393-A is now headed to the Senate floor having received zero public input on a bill that affects a Constitutional right. This is offensive to the character and tradition of democracy and diminishes the legitimacy of the Senate...Don't let democracy die under your watch.”

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To weigh-in on the public’s right to have a voice in all legislation, contact Senate President Rob Wanger, 503-986-1600, email Sen.RobWagner@oregonlegislature.gov.


--Donna Bleiler

Post Date: 2023-04-10 00:15:44

Last Update: 2023-04-10 00:26:03