Oregon County Referenda to Protect Second Amendment Rights

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- -Several Oregon counties have referenda on the ballot to re-enforce protections for Second Amendment rights. The movement to re-enforce the Second Amendment protections started in 2013, in Wallowa County. Similar referenda have passed in four counties, Coos, Curry, Wallowa, and Wheeler.

Wheeler and Coos county passed their ordinances in 2015, Curry county passed a similar ordinance in 2016.

In 2018 ten counties have Second Amendment protection referenda on the ballot.

These are: Baker County (measure 1-84), Columbia County (measure 5-270), Douglas county (measure 10-165), Jackson county (measure 15-181), Klamath County (measure 18-110), Lake County (measure 1-84), Lincoln County (measure 21-189), Linn County (measure 11-174), Umatilla County (measure 20-128), and Union County (measure 31-96).

The passed and proposed referenda may be read at the cooscountywatcher.com.

The measures are similar. They assert the primacy of the U.S. and Oregon constitutional protections of the right to keep and bear arms and the Ninth, Tenth, and Fourteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution. There are several variations.

The Oregon Constitutional protection is in Article 1, Section 27 of the Oregon Constitution.

Section 27. Right to bear arms; military subordinate to civil …Read the Rest

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