The BulleTin • Sunday, May 23, 2021 A3
TODAY
It’s Sunday, May 23, the 143rd
day of 2021. There are 222 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
In 1934, bank robbers Clyde
Barrow and Bonnie Parker were
shot to death in a police ambush
in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
In 1430, Joan of Arc was cap-
tured by the Burgundians, who
sold her to the English.
In 1533, the marriage of En-
gland’s King Henry VIII to Cath-
erine of Aragon was declared
null and void by the Archbishop
of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer.
In 1911, the newly completed
New York Public Library was
dedicated by President William
Howard Taft, Gov. John Alden Dix
and Mayor William Jay Gaynor.
In 1915, Italy declared war on
Austria-Hungary during World
War I.
In 1939, the Navy submarine
USS Squalus sank during a test
dive off the New England coast.
Thirty-two crew members and
one civilian were rescued, but
26 others died; the sub was sal-
vaged and recommissioned the
USS Sailfish.
In 1944, during World War II,
Allied forces bogged down in
Anzio began a major breakout
offensive.
In 1945, Nazi official Heinrich
Himmler committed suicide by
biting into a cyanide capsule
while in British custody in Lune-
burg, Germany.
In 1967, Egypt closed the Straits
of Tiran to Israeli shipping, an
action which helped precipitate
war between Israel and its Arab
neighbors the following month.
In 1977, Moluccan extremists
seized a train and a primary
school in the Netherlands; the
hostage drama ended June 11
as Dutch marines stormed the
train, resulting in the deaths of
six out of nine hijackers and two
hostages, while the school siege
ended peacefully.
In 1984, “Indiana Jones and
the Temple of Doom,” starring
Harrison Ford, was released by
Paramount Pictures.
In 1994, funeral services were
held at Arlington National
Cemetery for former first lady
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Ten years ago: President Barack
Obama opened a six-day Euro-
pean tour in Ireland, where he
paid tribute to his Irish ancestors
before heading to Britain.
Five years ago: During his
visit to Asia, President Barack
Obama, eager to banish linger-
ing shadows of the Vietnam
War, lifted the U.S. embargo on
selling arms to America’s former
enemy. Dr. Henry Heimlich, the
96-year-old retired chest sur-
geon credited with developing
the namesake Heimlich ma-
neuver, used it to save a woman
choking on food at his senior
living center in Cincinnati.
One year ago: For the first time
since he declared the coronavi-
rus pandemic a national emer-
gency more than two months
earlier, President Donald Trump
played golf at one of his courses
at the start of the Memorial Day
weekend, as he pushed for state
and local leaders to fully reopen
after months of closures and
tight restrictions.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Bar-
bara Barrie is 90. Actor Joan
Collins is 88. Actor Charles
Kimbrough is 85. International
Tennis Hall of Famer John New-
combe is 77. Actor Lauren
Chapin is 76. Chess grandmas-
ter Anatoly Karpov is 70. Former
baseball manager Buck Showal-
ter is 65. Actor-comedian-game
show host Drew Carey is 63.
Author Mitch Albom is 63. Ac-
tor-model Karen Duffy is 60. Ac-
tor Melissa McBride is 56. Rock
musician Phil Selway (Radio-
head) is 54. Singer Maxwell is 48.
Singer Jewel is 47. Game show
contestant Ken Jennings is 47.
Actor LaMonica Garrett is 46. Ac-
tor D.J. Cotrona is 41. Actor Lane
Garrison is 41. Actor-comedian
Tim Robinson is 40. Movie writ-
er-director Ryan Coogler is 35.
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
2nd Amendment sanctuaries face first court test
Everytown Law, an affili-
ate of the group Everytown
for Gun Safety, is pushing for
the measure to be overturned.
Managing Director Eric
Tirschwell said it would be the
nation’s first court test amid
the current wave of Second
Amendment sanctuary laws.
BY LINDSAY WHITEHURST
AND ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — The first court
test of whether local govern-
ments 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 Sec-
ond 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 sanctu-
ary resolutions have been ad-
opted by some 1,200 local gov-
ernments in states around the
U.S., including Virginia, Colo-
rado, New Mexico, Kansas, Illi-
nois and Florida, according to
Shawn Fields, an assistant pro-
fessor of law at Campbell Uni-
versity who tracks them. Legis-
latures have recently approved
resolutions making entire states
sanctuaries, including Utah.
Jurisdictions in Oregon have
joined the movement. Jeffer-
son County became one of
those May 12 when the County
Commission approved a sym-
bolic resolution. The com-
missioners said the county
will not put any resources to-
ward efforts to restrict Second
Amendment rights.
Many of these measures are
symbolic — but some, like in
Columbia County, carry legal
force.
The movement took off
around 2018, as states consid-
ered stricter gun laws in the
wake of mass shootings, in-
cluding a high school shooting
near Parkland, Florida, that
killed 17 people and made sur-
vivors into high-profile gun
control activists.
After President Joe Biden
took office, conservative law-
makers in several states pro-
posed banning police from en-
forcing federal gun measures,
and at least one proposal in Ar-
izona has been signed into law.
Oregon case could
be a bellwether
The movement hasn’t yet
faced a major legal challenge.
The Oregon case was filed by
Columbia County under an
unusual provision in state law
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A man enters a gun shop in Salem in February. Second Amendment
sanctuary resolutions have been adopted by some 1,200 local govern-
ments in states around the U.S.
that allows a judge to examine
a measure before it goes into
effect. No timeline has been set
for a court hearing.
“This will allow the court to
tell us whether the county can
actually decline to enforce cer-
tain state laws, and it will tell
us how to abide by the will of
the voters to the extent that we
can,” said Sarah Hanson, who
serves as counsel in the conser-
vative-leaning county in deep-
blue Oregon.
Supporters of the ordinance
include the Oregon Firearms
Federation, which said in a
November statement that “ex-
tremists” and “big city radi-
cals” were trying to curtail gun
rights.
The group referenced Port-
land protests opposing po-
lice brutality that occasionally
turned violent last summer
and called the ordinance a
“common sense” step that
would “ensure your right and
ability to defend your life and
the lives of your loved ones.”
The ordinance would ban
the enforcement of laws like
background check require-
ments and restrictions on car-
rying a gun, though it would
have exceptions for others, in-
cluding keeping firearms from
convicted felons.
The Oregon Firearms Fed-
eration didn’t respond to a re-
quest for comment.
Sheriff Brian Pixley has ex-
pressed support, saying in a
March statement that one of
his responsibilities is to uphold
people’s Second Amendment
rights and that he’s eager to
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“move forward with the will of
the voters.”
The measure is divisive lo-
cally, though, and four residents
filed court documents opposing
it. One, Brandee Dudzic, refer-
enced the strict gun safety drills
she learned in military medic
training, saying she values the
right to own a gun but believes
it should come with safety mea-
sures like background checks
and secure storage.
A gun shop owner in Co-
lumbia County said he sup-
ports background checks and
believes that “state law trumps
the county law.” But he voted
in favor of the Second Amend-
ment measure on principle.
“We need to make sure that
people are safe. We need to
make sure that people are re-
sponsible,” he said. “But as
more rules are in place, we just
need to make sure that we’re
not overregulated.”
He spoke on the condition
he not be identified because
some of his customers take a
hard line against gun restric-
tions and he didn’t want to lose
their business.
Sending a message
The decision won’t have a di-
rect effect outside Oregon but
could send a message.
“This case is important and
should send the message that
where state or local jurisdic-
tions attempt to unconstitu-
tionally or unlawfully nullify
gun safety laws, we are pre-
pared to and will go to court,”
Tirschwell said.
Other laws trying to blunt
the effect of federal gun re-
strictions haven’t fared well in
court, including a 2009 Mon-
tana measure that made guns
and ammunition manufac-
tured in the state exempt from
federal law and a similar 2013
measure in Kansas.
Many of the latest wave of
measures, though, take a dif-
ferent tack by focusing on the
actions of local police, includ-
ing punishments like fines.
In terms of federal law, gun
rights advocates may have a
successful legal argument un-
der the so-called anti-com-
mandeering doctrine, which
says the U.S. government
can’t make state and local of-
ficials enforce federal law, said
Darrell Miller, a professor of
law at Duke Law School and
co-faculty director of the Duke
Center for Firearms Law. He
agreed that the Oregon case is
the first of its kind.
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