As things
develop in Josephine County concerning the
Bureau
of Land Management's threats against the owners of the Sugar Pine mine in southern Oregon, the sheriff of that county said that
neither he nor his office would enforce a state law, which legislators are
attempting to pass that would expand background checks
to include private sales.
Senate
Bill 941, a 23-page-monstrosity that completely oversteps the authority of government
against the people, is called the Oregon Firearms Safety Act. The bill was passed
by the Oregon senate on Tuesday by a vote of 17-13. It will now head to the House, where Socialist Democrats
believe it will have a swift and easy passage. Politicians were also called out
by the Oregon
Firearms Federation for not being truthful with those
they serve.
"The
Senate debate proved that supporters of SB 941 did not read it or were
willing to lie about it," the organization wrote on its website.
"Senator Prozanski said you would be able to loan a firearm to someone to
go hunting, but that's not true unless you were with them at the time they were
hunting. He said the bill would not prevent a transfer to a person who was 18
to 21. That is also false. This bill is riddled with contradictions and
unenforceable provisions."
"Over 20
counties have expressed their opposition to this terrible invasion of
privacy," the OFF wrote. "Sheriffs have said they oppose it and
will not enforce it."
The bill would
not only expand background
checks to include private sales
of guns, but also include transfers between
family members and neighbors.
However, Josephine County Sheriff
Dave Daniel is having none of it. Daniel is new on the job, following in the
footsteps of Sheriff Gil Gilbertson, who had previously
written a letter to Joe Biden
concerning federal gun laws warning him, "Any rule, regulation, or
executive order repugnant to the constitutional rights of the citizens of this
County will be ignored by this office."
According to
the Examiner, "Sheriff Dave Daniel announced to the media on
Tuesday that he and his department won't enforce a state law."
"Sheriff
Daniel, who is the new top cop for Josephine County which shares a border with
northern California, told reporters that believes this latest gun control law
goes against his county's charter," wrote Jim Kouri of the Examiner. "He also said his
department doesn't have a sufficient number of deputies to pursue lawbreakers
who are committing a frivolous misdemeanor."
Daniel, though
new to the job, is simply joining a long list of Oregon sheriffs who are taking
a preemptive stand against what they believe to be unconstitutional legislation
by socialist servants of the people.
Sheriff Tim
Mueller of Linn County, along with other Oregon sheriffs, also took
a similar stand in 2013 against
federal encroachment against the rights of citizens to be able to purchase
guns. Mueller even went so far as to write
a letter to Vice President Joe Biden to
inform him that he would not be enforcing any presumed authority of the federal
government regarding gun control.
"It all
started when my deputies and I started getting questions from folks out there
in the community wanting to know exactly what my position was," he said at
the time.
Sheriff Mueller
believes that no crime, no matter how heinous, should prompt politicians to
take away liberties. "Making criminals out of honest citizens, that's not
the right path to go down," said Mueller.
Now, these constitutional
sheriffs are dealing with government tyranny
at the state level and they are holding their ground. They need the support of
the people as they are the last line of defense between the people and tyranny
in their county.
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