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Saturday, December 22, 2018
Proposals take aim at
new gun restrictions
ers to secure their firearms
with a lock or in a locked
container.
The proposal is among
several gun safety measures
that state lawmakers want
to consider during the 2019
legislative session opening
Jan. 22.
Some lawmakers also
want to raise the age for
buying assault weapons,
give police more time to
conduct background checks
on gun buyers and regulate
handguns in schools and
universities.
Under the gun storage
legislation, owners would
face a fine of up to $2,000.
The average fine would be
about $165 — about the
same as fines for driving 11
to 20 mph over the speed
limit.
The fine could increase
to $2,000 if the gun owner
knew that a child could
reach the firearm, propo-
nents said.
The law also makes the
gun owner civilly liable if
someone uses an unsecured
gun to shoot another person
or property.
Some gun rights advo-
cates oppose the legislation.
Charlie Brinton, presi-
dent of the Baker County
Bills incentivize safe
storage and prohibit
3D printing
By PARIS ACHEN
Oregon Capital Bureau
A few days after Liam
Mankins was born in Sep-
tember 2016, his father
posted a photo on Facebook
of his son wearing over-
sized sunglasses.
“Future’s so bright gotta
wear sunglasses,” a friend
commented.
“Yes, yes, it is,” Liam’s
father replied. “He’s going
to … make something of
himself.”
Then, two years later, on
Nov. 4, Liam was killed by
a shot from an unsecured
gun.
The toddler “got control
of a loaded handgun” at the
family’s Baker City home
and “caused the handgun to
discharge,” Baker County
District Attorney Matt Shirt-
cliff wrote in a news release.
“The gun had not been
secured in a safe place,”
Shirtcliff said.
Such cases are moti-
vating two state legislators
and gun safety advocates
to legally require gun own-
chapter of the Oregon Hunt-
ers Association, said it’s
unfair to hold gun owners
liable if someone stole their
unsecured weapon and shot
someone. The thief should
be held liable, he said.
Kevin Starrett, executive
director of the Oregon Fire-
arms Federation, said requir-
ing that guns be locked up
is “rendering firearms use-
less” because it will take too
long to get the weapon out
in an emergency.
Relatives of the victims
of the 2012 mass shooting
at Clackamas Town Center
wanted to impose the stor-
age mandate through a bal-
lot measure earlier this year.
Their effort stalled after the
National Rifle Association,
the state firearms federation
and other gun rights advo-
cates challenged the bal-
lot language in court. The
Oregon Supreme Court dis-
missed the challenge, but
that left only a month for
measure supporters to col-
lect 88,000 signatures.
State Rep. Barbara
Smith Warner, D-Portland,
and state Sen. James Man-
ning Jr., D-Eugene, are
now championing the stor-
age requirement through
legislation.
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The first rendering from hemp plants extracted from a super critical CO2 extraction device on it’s
way to becoming fully refined CBD oil spurts into a large beaker at New Earth Biosciences in Salem.
The hemp industry still has work ahead to win legal status for hemp-derived cannabidiol, or CBD oil.
FDA casts shadow on hemp win,
calling CBD products illegal
SEATTLE (AP) — The
hemp industry still has work
ahead to win legal status for
hemp-derived cannabidiol,
or CBD oil, as an ingredi-
ent in food or dietary supple-
ments despite the big farm
bill President Donald Trump
signed this week designating
hemp as an agricultural crop.
CBD oils have become
increasingly popular in
lotions, tinctures and foods,
but their legal status has
been murky and the Food
and Drug Administration has
sent warning letters to some
companies making health
claims for CBD.
In a statement follow-
ing Thursday’s bill signing
in Washington, FDA Com-
missioner Scott Gottlieb
restated his agency’s stance
that CBD is a drug ingredi-
ent and therefore illegal to
add to food or health prod-
ucts without approval from
his agency.
“Selling
unapproved
products with unsubstanti-
ated therapeutic claims is not
only a violation of the law,
but also can put patients at
risk, as these products have
not been proven to be safe or
effective,” Gottlieb wrote.
CBD is a non-psycho-
active compound found in
hemp, a version of the can-
nabis plant that is low in
THC, the part of cannabis
that gives pot its high.
An FDA-approved drug
for the treatment of seizures,
Epidiolex, contains canna-
bis-derived CBD. GW Phar-
maceuticals’ syrup became
the first prescription drug
derived from the cannabis
plant in June.
The FDA statement also
specified parts of hemp that
are safe as food ingredients,
but the CBD stance disap-
pointed advocates. Court-
ney Moran, a lobbyist for
Oregon hemp farmers, said
she plans to work with U.S.
Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon
Democrat, to nudge the FDA
toward greater acceptance of
CBD.
“We do hope the FDA
does clear a pathway for
these products that have
already hit store shelves and
are out in the marketplace,”
Moran said. She said it’s an
“opportunity for industry to
educate the FDA.”
The FDA statement said
three ingredients derived
from hemp — hulled hemp
seeds, hemp seed protein
and hemp seed oil — are
safe as foods and won’t
require additional approvals,
as long as marketers do not
make claims that they treat
disease.
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ing to file the complaint in
federal court.
Barred owls are blamed
for displacing the smaller
and less aggressive spot-
ted owls in their habitat
and occasionally attacking
them, contributing to the
species’ population decline.
While protections for
the spotted owl under the
Endangered Species Act
have greatly restricted log-
ging in federal forests, the
bird has nonetheless con-
tinued to struggle.
Aiken has found that
the nonprofit and its mem-
bers have not demonstrated
sufficient “injury-in-fact”
or “cognizable injury”
to give them standing to
legally challenge the fed-
eral action.
Friends of Animals plans
to appeal.
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Bennett Christianson’s title is incorrect on the story “Realtors board has equity
in Agape House” on Page C2 of today’s edition. He is the Columbia Basin Board of
Realtors president.
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SALEM (AP) — A fed-
eral judge has dismissed
a third lawsuit challeng-
ing the U.S. Fish and Wild-
life Service’s experiment
with killing barred owls to
protect threatened spotted
owls.
The
Capital
Press
reports U.S. District Judge
Ann Aiken ruled that non-
profit group Friends of Ani-
mals lacked the legal stand-
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