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Second Amendment Sanctuary order invalid, argues Oregon AG May 27 2021
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum says Columbia County s Second Amendment Sanctuary Ordinance should be declared invalid.
Oregon s attorney general and a group of Columbia County residents are getting involved in the ongoing legal proceedings over the county s Second Amendment Sanctuary Ordinance.
Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, through senior assistant attorney general Brian Simmonds Marshall, filed a document in the case, requesting that the ordinance be declared invalid.
Rosenblum wrote that the county ordinance and the two ballot measures it was based on conflict with and are incompatible with the state s criminal laws … the duties of the Columbia County sheriff, the duties of the Columbia County district attorney, and the duties of other offers and departments of Columbia County.
Supporters of this particular ordinance include the Oregon Firearms Federation, which said in a November statement that “extremists” and “big city radicals” were trying to curtail gun rights.
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The first court test of whether local governments can ban police from enforcing certain gun laws is playing out in a rural Oregon county, one of a wave of U.S. counties declaring itself a Second Amendment sanctuary.
The measure that voters in the logging area of Columbia County narrowly approved last year forbids local officials from enforcing most federal and state gun laws and could impose thousands of dollars in fines on those who try.
Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions have been adopted by about 1,200 local governments in states around the U.S., including Virginia, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Illinois and Florida, according to Shawn Fields, an assistant professor of law at Campbell University who tracks them. Many are symbolic, but some, like in Columbia County, carry legal force.