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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2018
Measures would give sweeping authority to sheriffs on guns
Backers send
a statement on
gun rights
By JONATHAN
LEVINSON
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Voters in 10 Oregon coun-
ties will decide on Second
Amendment Protection Ordi-
nances this Election Day.
The ordinances state that
county residents have the right
to own semi-automatic weap-
ons and high-capacity mag-
azines, and the right to own
firearms without any registra-
tion requirement.
The ordinances also call
on county sheriffs to decide
whether state and federal gun
laws are constitutional, and
prohibit the use of county
resources to enforce any laws
deemed unconstitutional.
The measures were writ-
ten and shepherded through
the ballot initiative process by
the Committee to Protect the
Jonathan Levinson/Oregon Public Broadcasting
Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin sits for a portrait in
his office in Roseburg.
Second Amendment, an orga-
nization run by Coos County
resident Rob Taylor. Members
of militia groups like the Oath
Keepers and the Three Percen-
ters took lead roles as well.
In Douglas County, Sheriff
John Hanlin supports the ordi-
nance before voters there, but
says it’s mostly just a message.
“The main purpose of the
ordinance is sort of raising the
flag in support of the Second
Amendment of the Constitu-
tion of the United States of
America,” Hanlin said.
And although Hanlin was
clear that interpreting the con-
stitution is not part of his job
or something that he’s qual-
ified to do, this isn’t his first
foray into the issue.
In 2013, after the Sandy
Hook school shooting, the
federal government was con-
sidering restrictions on some
types of gun sales. Hanlin
gained national attention after
he wrote a letter to Vice Pres-
ident Joe Biden saying “any
federal regulation enacted
by Congress or by execu-
tive order of the president
offending the constitutional
rights of my citizens shall not
be enforced by me or by my
deputies.”
While Hanlin and the Sec-
ond Amendment are both pop-
ular in Douglas County, even
some of his supporters are
skeptical of the gun rights
ordinances.
Mitchell Randall said Han-
lin is a family friend he’s
known his entire life. And
Randall said he trusts Han-
lin, but is less sure about other
sheriffs.
“I don’t like the idea,”
Randall said. “John Hanlin is
the man … but I don’t know
about those other guys.”
In neighboring Coos
County, Sheriff Craig Zanni
technically has the power
granted by the Second Amend-
ment ordinances. Voters there
passed a similar initiative with
60 percent support in 2015.
Like Hanlin, Zanni supported
the initiative with the caveat
that it’s probably illegal.
“I was very clear. I don’t
think you can enforce it, but
I think it makes a great state-
ment,” Zanni said. “Leave
us alone. If we’re not doing
something wrong, why are
you bothering to put more
responsibility on us?”
But not everyone sees the
measures as a mere formality.
Tom McKirgan spent 17
years as a police officer and
is a member of the Three Per-
centers militia. He’s the south-
ern Oregon coordinator for
Taylor’s Committee to Pro-
tect the Second Amendment,
and helped draft the Douglas
County ordinance.
Standing in front of his
Camas Valley home with enor-
mous campaign signs behind
him, McKirgan said this isn’t
just a statement.
“They can’t use any county
resources to enforce these dra-
conian laws. So if they show
up on my property and want to
assist another agency with tak-
ing my firearms, then there’s
a $2,000 fine per incident on
the officer and $4,000 for the
agency,” McKirgan explained.
“People are upset down here
in the south because the peo-
ple up north, they’re trying to
tell us how to live down here
…. And we’re just not going
to take it anymore.”
At a recent campaign event
sponsored by the gun control
group Moms Demand Action,
Gov. Kate Brown said the law
in Oregon is very clear.
“We moved forward on
legislation in the ’90s to clar-
ify that any gun regulations
need to be developed at the
state level because of chal-
lenges of enforcement at the
local level from jurisdiction to
jurisdiction,” she said.
But Taylor said he and his
committee are prepared for
the courts to strike down the
ordinances. They’ve already
written an updated version
without the controversial sher-
iff clause if that happens.
Bloomberg gives $1.5M to Snake River dams seen as
oppose ban on grocery tax possible barriers to saving orcas
Associated Press
PORTLAND — For-
mer New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg has
donated $1.5 million to the
campaign against a ballot
measure in Oregon that would
ban any future taxes on gro-
cery revenue and items sold in
supermarkets.
The Oregonian said Mon-
day that Bloomberg has not
commented publicly on his
donation, which was disclosed
Friday. The donation was first
reported by Portland’s weekly
newspaper, Willamette Week.
As New York City mayor,
Bloomberg unsuccessfully
tried to ban super-sized sodas.
He also spent $5 million
in 2017 to support a proposed
soda tax in Chicago.
Oregon’s Measure 103
proposes a state constitutional
amendment to prohibit new
taxes on grocers and most
groceries, including food and
soda.
Taxes would still be
allowed on alcohol, marijuana
and tobacco.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
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Oct. 29, 2018
VALENTINE, Franziska, 91, of Naselle, Washington, died in Astoria. Ocean View Funeral & Crema-
tion Service of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
Oct. 27, 2018
PLOWMAN, Peter D., 74, of Seaside, died in Seaside. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary is in
charge of the arrangements.
Astoria. Grandparents are
Marvin and Judy Walton of
Diana, Texas, and Robert and
Nancy Bickley of Coarsegold,
California.
Oct. 14, 2018
CALDWELL, Kristen and
Jeff, of Astoria, a boy, Corbin
Henry Caldwell, born at
Columbia Memorial Hospital.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Port of Astoria, 4 p.m., special
session on Astoria Riverwalk Inn,
Port offices, 10 Pier 1, Suite 209.
Gearhart City Council, 6 p.m.,
work session on wildlife feed-
ing, 698 Pacific Way.
THURSDAY
Northwest Oregon Housing
Authority Board, 10 a.m., NOHA
office, 147 S. Main Ave., Warrenton.
Astoria Design Review Com-
mittee, 5:30 p.m., City Hall, 1095
Duane St.
Seaside Parks Advisory
Committee, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
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DEATHS
Oct. 16, 2018
WALTON, Lauren and Tra-
vis, of Astoria, a boy, Jameson
Stone Walton, born at Colum-
bia Memorial Hospital in
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Assault
• At 1:01 p.m. Monday, Dennis Alan Steele,
56, of Warrenton, was arrested by the Clatsop
County Sheriff’s Office on the 33240 block of
Sunset Beach Lane and charged with fourth-de-
gree assault. The alleged assault came during a
domestic dispute.
BIRTHS
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• At 8:22 p.m. Monday, Madeline Bing-
ham Miller, 29, of Wheeler, was arrested by
Oregon State Police on state Highway 53
and charged with driving under the influ-
ence of intoxicants, reckless driving and
coercion.
REGIONAL CITIES
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Washington
state’s
orca-rescue plan could include
creating more fish habi-
tat in Puget Sound and tak-
ing another look at remov-
ing lower Snake River dams,
according to a task force’s pre-
liminary proposals.
Orcas don’t have enough
fish to eat, especially Chi-
nook salmon, according to a
task force report. The group
may recommend studying how
much the killer whales would
benefit by breaching Ice Har-
bor, Lower Monumental, Lit-
tle Goose and Lower Granite
dams on the Snake River.
Another proposal is to
make more fish habitat in
66 orcas in 1973. The popu-
lation peaked at 98 in 1995.
The orcas are believed to be in
poor condition and struggling
to reproduce, according to the
report.
Inslee created the task force
in May. Public attention on
ocras increased in July, An
orca nicknamed Tahlequah by
a whale museum had a calf
that lived for half an hour. Tah-
lequah carried the calf for 17
days over more than 1,000
miles in “what was widely
seen as a display of deep
mourning,” according to the
task force report.
Orcas have become cen-
tral in the long-running debate
whether to remove the lower
Snake River dams to produce
more salmon. As of Monday,
more than 653,000 people had
signed an online petition to
remove the dams to save orcas.
Farm groups say the dams are
important for barging wheat.
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By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
several basins in northwest
and southwest Washington.
Such projects in the past have
included breaching dikes and
flooding fields that had been
used for agriculture.
The 49-member task force,
which was created by Gov. Jay
Inslee, will meet next week
to finalize its recommenda-
tions. One task force member,
House Agriculture and Natural
Resources Committee Chair-
man Brian Blake, said Monday
that there are more effective
ways to help orcas than taking
out the Snake River dams.
“I personally do not support
removal of the Snake River
dams. I think it’s the wrong
thing to be studying,” said
Blake, D-Aberdeen.
Some 76 orcas that travel
between southern Alaska and
central California spend most
of the year in the Salish Sea
and off the coast of Washing-
ton. The first census counted
Ontario
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Tonight's Sky: The Pleiades is a cluster of several
hundred stars and is low in the ENE.
High
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Lebanon
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Eugene
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Portland
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Sunset tonight ........................... 6:04 p.m.
Sunrise Wednesday .................... 7:55 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................ 11:28 p.m.
Moonset today ........................... 2:04 p.m.
Time
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breezy in the p.m.
Mostly cloudy with a
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ASTORIA
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Precipitation
Monday ............................................ 0.87"
Month to date ................................... 6.57"
Normal month to date ....................... 5.42"
Year to date .................................... 45.25"
Normal year to date ........................ 45.66"
Oct 31
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REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Monday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 59°/46°
Normal high/low ........................... 58°/43°
Record high ............................ 72° in 1958
Record low ............................. 27° in 1971
Last
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