Starting at 8am TODAY, the Senate Rules Committee will hold a work session on House Bill 4145, the Ballot Measure 114 override bill. The clock is ticking for anti-gunners to get this bill across the finish line.
Anti-gun legislators have been pushing this bill through with no regard for the opposition and controversy the bill has faced. In a new development to get the bill across the finish line, a -9 Amendment has been introduced in the Rules Committee to move the implementation date of Ballot Measure 114 to January 1, 2028. It's critical that NRA members and Second Amendment supporters stay engaged and continue contacting lawmakers to oppose! Passage of this bill, even with the -9 Amendment signals legislative approval of the unconstitutional provisions of Ballot Measure 114.
Contact members of the committee NOW and urge them to OPPOSE HB 4145 by using the TAKE ACTION button below.
HB 4145 would legislatively implement an override of the ballot measure with the following major changes that were NOT approved by the voters:
- Doubles the amount of time for state bureaucrats to issue the required permit to lawfully purchase a firearm from 30 days to 60 days.
- Increases the cost for the permit by more than 130%, from $65 to $150, a clear attempt to make lawful gun ownership unobtainable through financial barriers.
- Carves out on and off duty law enforcement from the permit requirement and magazine capacity limitations, creating different classes of people for lawful firearm ownership.
- Changes the implementation date of the magazine ban and permit requirements.
- Includes a government maintained de facto registry of firearm owners, with their personal data and fingerprints to be shared with the FBI.
Again, a -9 Amendment could be considered by the House Rules Committee today to gut the bill and the content above, then replacing it with an implementation date of January 1, 2028 and a legislative intent section that only applies to avoiding conflict with the court case in the Oregon Supreme Court.
Ballot Measure 114 has been subject to several legal challenges since narrowly passing, receiving just 50.1% of the vote in 2022. NRA's legal challenge, Eyre v. Rosenblum, remains active in the 9th Circuit. HB 4145 is an attempt by the legislature to override the will of the voters and superimpose additional gun control measures. HB 4145 will do nothing to address criminal misuse of firearms, but instead will escalate costs and bureaucratic red tape for law-abiding gun owners.
There is less than a week left in the 2026 legislative session! Stay engaged and stay tuned for more alerts to oppose this bill that will make lawful ownership of firearms so costly and burdensome that criminal possession will become the only reality.
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