As you would expect, today’s “informational hearing” on Extreme Risk Protection Orders [by the Oregon Senate Committee On Judiciary, 03/05/2024] was actually a far-left, gun-grabbing propaganda festival.
Most witnesses represented extremist anti-gun groups. No one with concerns about the implementation of a policy that eliminates due process and allows people to lose their rights and their property without ever having been accused of, let alone convicted of a crime, was allowed to testify.
It was no surprise that the entire point of the hearing was to pave the way to expand significantly the confiscation of firearms.
One goal is to increase the list of people who can make unfounded and unproven accusations leading to the state-sponsored theft of firearms.
A second one is to promote ERPO’s so more people will be requesting them.
Among the people the speakers want to add to the list of who can demand a gun confiscation order are ex-spouses, ex-intimate partners, and medical personnel.
When this law was first promoted by Senator Brian Boquist, people expressed concerns that it might be used by angry, vindictive ex-spouses. He ridiculed the idea and the people who suggested it.
You reap what you sow.
The presenters also want to be able to confiscate guns from adults by claiming their children are dangerous.
You can rest assured that soon, probably as soon as the next session of the Oregon Legislature, we will see these gun-grabbing dreams introduced as legislation.
You can see some of the propaganda presented here.
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I see why Boquist is an independent. But he seems more like a mole. I work a fair amount in Dallas Oregon.. It seems odd to me that Boquist represents the majority of voters there. I think its too close to Salem and Corvallis… libtowns.
I don’t like ex parte hearings… anything can be said and a judgement made against you without your knowledge or defense.
The “ministry of disarmament’ is alive and well in Oregon Courts.
As allowed.
Wow!!!! Moving on to taint of blood. Specifically enumerated as not allowed in the constitution
Totally unconstitutional. It is breaking and entering, theft, and a violation of the right to keep and bear arms. It is violating due process and refusing to offer state funded legal representation, which is required for criminal charges (and they ignore). It is treating citizens as if they were tried and found guilty, when they have not even been charged with a crime. All who support red flag laws must be run out of office, for violating their oaths of office and soliciting criminal acts being committed against citizens.
PoIiticians are dangerous. EspeciaIIy Iefty ones. But….that does not discount rino’s.