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Polk County News
Guns: New bill infringes
on Second Amendment
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Background checks are al-
ready done when a firearms
purchase is made online,
also, Jobe said.
“That gun (bought online)
has to be transferred to a
firearms dealer,” he said.
“Then you have to do a
background check before
you can get said gun.”
Putting the burden of
background checks in local
gun shops would be signifi-
cant, Jobe noted.
“It puts a lot more paper-
work on our end,” he said.
“If a lot of people are doing it
(selling guns), which they
do, we would … end up
doing a lot more work.”
A background check from
Oregon State Police would
cost $10, said Lt. Josh
Brooks, public information
officer for OSP.
But because SB 941 is not
designed to require an indi-
vidual to pay OSP directly,
any sale must go through a
dealer.
The increased workload
would likely result in higher
costs to consumers, Jobe
said.
Plenty of gun laws are al-
ready on the books to cover
anyone with a violent past,
said Micky Garus, owner of
American Outdoors in Dal-
las.
“It’s already illegal for
them to purchase and pos-
sess firearms,” he said. “This
new law that they’re wanting
to do, everybody should
have to pass a background
check for a firearm. It
sounds good on the face, but
the reality is criminals are al-
ready circumventing the sys-
tem.”
Garus said SB 941 and
other gun-related bills in the
Legislature are examples of
trying to “legislate crime.”
“It really does nothing but
infringe on the liberties of
the private citizen,” he said.
If passed, the law would
do a couple of things to
complicate gun ownership,
Garus said.
“The system Oregon State
Police uses cannot even
handle what our shops are
doing,” he said. “It causes a
backup. I had two guns that
I got an (approved back-
ground check) on. The cus-
tomers had waited two
months to pick up those
guns.”
Jobe agreed.
“It puts a lot of stress on
the background system,” he
said.
Another consequence of
SB 941 is gun registration,
Garus said.
“The only effective way to
regulate this is registration,”
he said. “They have no clue
who has what right now.
They won’t come out and
say, ‘we want gun registra-
tion,’ … but if the bill passes,
they can say under an ad-
ministrative rule that the
only way we can enforce this
law is to have these guns
registered.”
Garus, Jobe and Wolfe
agree the situation is frus-
trating.
“Common sense is not
being put forth in this ap-
proach, it’s just not,” Wolfe
said.
To see Wolfe’s letter to the
Senate Committee on Judici-
ary and other submissions
in support of and against the
bill, olis.leg.state.or.us
/liz/2015R1/Downloads/
CommitteeMeeting
Document/58380.
To hear Garus speaking at
a hearing: oregon.granicus.
com/MediaPlayer.php?clip_i
d=8967.
Budget: State funding is
not enough for Falls City
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“We’ve been pretty solid
financially for some time,”
Milburn said. “It (the budget
proposal) is not going to
cause any major differ-
ences.”
Democratic leaders have
admitted on a number of oc-
casions the funding isn’t
enough, but say the figure
offers most school districts
enough to maintain pro-
grams and to pay for full-day
kindergarten.
“With today’s vote we set
the floor for funding — not
the maximum amount of
funding that our schools can
get, but the minimum,” said
Sen. Ron Monroe, the co-
chair of the Joint Ways and
Means Subcommittee on
Education, in a statement
after Monday’s Senate vote.
The bill has a provision
that would send 40 percent
of any unexpected revenue
increase in the state’s May
economic forecast to
schools.
School district leaders are
not holding their breath for
that, however.
“If we get additional
funds, we will have a plan to
spend that,” Engle said.
Moore
Hernandez
Hamilton
Rushton
Hinton
Corrections posts ‘most wanted’
POLK COUNTY — Polk
County Community Cor-
rections lists these individ-
uals as “most wanted” for
April. Citizens with infor-
mation on the whereabouts
of any of these individuals
should call Community
Corrections at 503-623-
5226.
• Darryl Jackson Hamil-
ton, born July 1, 1990, 5-10,
260 pounds, blonde hair,
blue eyes. Charges: Crimi-
nal mistreatment I.
• Charles John Ruston,
born Feb. 18, 1985, 5-8, 160
pounds, brown hair, blue
eyes. Charges: Possession
of methamphetamine.
• Andrew Michael Hin-
ton, born Feb. 9, 1996, 5-9,
138 pounds; brown hair,
b r ow n e y e s. C h a r g e s :
Unauthorized use of a vehi-
cle, Theft I.
• Trudy Rose Hernandez,
born Oct. 26, 1973, 5-3, 180
pounds, brown hair, blue
eyes. Charges: Possession
of methamphetamine, For-
gery I, Theft I, Identity
Theft.
• Jordan Nicole Moore,
born Sept. 7, 1993, 5-3, 111
pounds, brown hair, brown
eyes. Charges: Possession
of methamphetamine, Fail-
ure to appear I.
POLICE REPORT
Information for the police re-
port comes from law enforce-
ment agencies. Not all calls for
service are included. The status
of incidents reported may
change after further investiga-
tion. Individuals arrested or sus-
pected of crimes are considered
innocent until proven guilty.
—
DALLAS
Arrests/Citations
• Codie A. Wellman, 20, of
Dallas in the 700 block of
Southeast Ash Street on March
30 on a charge of misde-
meanor fourth-degree assault.
• Oila L. Nugent, 58, of Dal-
las at Walmart, 321 NE Kings
Valley Highway, on Thursday
on a charge of third-degree
theft.
• Rachel N. Strachan, 30, of
Dallas in the 200 block of
Southeast Walnut Avenue on
Friday on charges of misde-
meanor driving under the in-
fluence of intoxicants and
reckless driving.
INDEPENDENCE
Arrests/Citations
• Scott Brian Blair, 41, of
Salem on March 25 for sec-
ond-degree disorderly con-
duct and third-degree theft-
shoplifting from Hi School
Pharmacy, 1357 Monmouth St.
• Erika Vera Manzo, 24, of
Monmouth on March 27 in the
1400 block of Monmouth
Street for failure to perform
the duties of a driver when
property is damaged.
• Feliciano Mata Infante, 40,
of Independence on Sunday in
the 0-99 block of South Gun
Club Road for physical harass-
ment.
MONMOUTH
Arrests/Citations
• Angela Kay Melton, 35, of
Independence on March 26 in
the 500 block of Ecols Street
South for felony fourth-degree
simple assault, first-degree
criminal mistreatment and
physical harassment.
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