Second Amendment Oregon jumps on the anti-gun wagon

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CC .... you should print a bunch of these up and hand them out there.

 

Support Oregon’s Pro Right to Bear Arms House Bill 3006​

On February 25, 2013 House Bill 3006 was referred to the Judiciary Committee of the Oregon State House of Representatives. This proposed legislation would invalidate all federal acts, laws, orders, rules and regulations relating to firearms within the state of Oregon.

The key provision of Oregon’s House Bill 3006 reads: reads:
SECTION 1. (1) All federal acts, laws, orders, rules and regulations relating to firearms are invalid and may not be enforced in the State of Oregon.
(2) The Legislative Assembly shall adopt all measures necessary to prevent the enforcement of any federal act, law, order, rule or regulation of firearms.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2013 Act applies to federal acts, laws, orders, rules and regulations relating to firearms effective before, on or after the effective date of this 2013 Act.
Such a law is not without historical precedent. Historian Thomas Woods has written an excellent brief history of state nullification of federal laws in his article, "The States’ Rights Tradition Nobody Knows." In recent years dozens of states have introduced nullification-type legislation to stop Real ID, affirm the Tenth Amendment, reject a federal mandate to buy healthcare insurance, and to reject federal firearm laws for guns manufactured, sold, and used intrastate (known as Firearms Freedom Acts or FFA). A total of eight states have passed FFAs. Now, all across the country sheriffs and legislators are acting to nullify President Obama’s gun controls.

The purpose of this new pro right to bear arms legislation, HB 3006, is to guarantee that the right to bear arms of the people of Oregon is not curtailed or trampled on in any manner or form by the federal government. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

At the time of the Second Amendment’s ratification, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights, in December 1791, it was understood that the militia meant the free able-bodied citizenry of the country. In 1788, Richard Henry Lee, signatory to the Declaration of Independence and subsequent Articles of Confederation, explained the meaning of the term militia, as understood at the time, and the imperative for citizens to be armed. Lee wrote, “A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves ... and include all men capable of bearing arms… To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms....”

During the Massachusetts’s Convention to Ratify the Constitution in 1788, Samuel Adams also explained, “…The said Constitution [is to] be never construed …to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”

In volume 1, page 300, of St. George Tucker’s edition of Blackstone’s Commentaries: With Notes and Reference (1803), which was the most popular legal commentary of its day, Tucker stated:

“The right of self defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever ... the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.”

St. George Tucker was an attorney and a military officer who was wounded twice during the American Revolution, and was one of the leaders of the 1786 Annapolis Convention, which paved the way for the subsequent Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia. Tucker was a law professor at the College of William and Mary, and served as a justice in the Supreme Court of Virginia. President James Madison later appointed him as a federal judge.

In addition to the U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 27 of the Constitution of the State of Oregon states, “The people shall have the right to bear arms for the defence of themselves, and the State...”

Email your state representative and state senator and urge them to support and vote YES in favor of HB 3006.

Phone calls can also be very effective, and of course, the most effective way to educate your state legislators is by making personal visits to their offices. Click here for contact information.

Thanks.

Your Friends at The John Birch Society