A growing number of county sheriffs in Oregon are refusing to enforce the state government’s draconian, anti-gun laws, saying that the new laws violate Oregonians’ constitutional rights.
To date, five of Oregon’s 36 county sheriffs are refusing to enforce the state’s new anti-gun laws in its new Measure 114.
“The ballot measure banned the sale or transfer of any magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition. The rule also bans Oregonians from receiving a firearm from a licensed dealer without a completed background check from state police,” the Daily Wire added.
Per Daily Wire:
“The biggest thing is, this does absolutely nothing to address the problem,” Sheriff Cody Bowen of Union County told Fox News. “The problem that we have is not … magazine capacity. It’s not background checks. It’s a problem with mental health awareness. It’s a problem with behavior health illness.”
“Our society as a whole is a bigger problem rather than saying that, you know, the guns are killing people,” he said.
Organ voters approved Measure 114, voting for some of the strictest gun control regulations in the country. The ballot measure banned the sale or transfer of any magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition. The rule also bans Oregonians from receiving a firearm from a licensed dealer without a completed background check from state police. Current federal regulations say a potential purchase can only be postponed for up to three days if the background check is not completed.
Measure 114 appears to have passed by a slim 51% to 49% margin, though votes are still being tallied. By Wednesday evening, six of Oregon’s 36 had voted in favor of the measure.
Another problem is manpower. Many of these sheriffs say that they simply don’t have the manpower to go around making sure all these private transactions are within the rules of the new law.
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