How do we get 10K testimonies? That is the real problem. 100 opposing testimonies is nothing to them. Even when there are only a handful of supporting the bill, they don't care

A few of us got 1,200 at one time.  It depends how much effort you're willing to put into it.

If 100 people put in 5 hours a week into it, I bet we'd get 10k.

Not sure what you mean by votes.  If we had 10k opposed they would automatically kill a bill?  Given that HMSA would not allow my healthcare related bill to be even introduced (a private company told the legislature to not even introduce my bill so they refused the introduce it) I cant imagine that these d-bags will do anything with even 10 million opposed votes.

Votes for the election.  10,000 voters could turn a bunch of House and Senate races where a bunch are won by 20 to 200 votes.  Just winning a handful of seats would makes the legislators take notice of gun rights instead of ignoring it and thinking twice about what they're doing.

All I see on this forum is how is a lot of hopelessness and ranting instead of doing effective things, like that guidebook that was posted earlier.  I've put in over 1,000 hours of gun rights work in the past two years and HIFICO has won some lawsuits, derailed some bills, and got people going out and doing good effective things where we're noticed in the legislature, got credibility in the local gun community, and starting to get known by national 2A groups. Most of this was done by only 2 people with a few regular dedicated supporters.

I'm maxed out on what I can do and don't know how long I can go before I burn out.  Its up to all of you to do your part.

Votes for the election.  10,000 voters could turn a bunch of House and Senate races where a bunch are won by 20 to 200 votes.  Just winning a handful of seats would makes the legislators take notice of gun rights instead of ignoring it and thinking twice about what they're doing.

All I see on this forum is how is a lot of hopelessness and ranting instead of doing effective things, like that guidebook that was posted earlier.  I've put in over 1,000 hours of gun rights work in the past two years and HIFICO has won some lawsuits, derailed some bills, and got people going out and doing good effective things where we're noticed in the legislature, got credibility in the local gun community, and starting to get known by national 2A groups. Most of this was done by only 2 people with a few regular dedicated supporters.

I'm maxed out on what I can do and don't know how long I can go before I burn out.  Its up to all of you to do your part.

Thanks., I misunderstood that if we just had more testimonies it would stop the bill in committee

I'm doing my part by clearing 100% of the mental health clearance requests I've received from patients.  Its not much but it is something.   I also put thousands of hours into a recall petition in Oregon only to see Bloomberg crush it.   So I'm past believing soap box, ballot box and jury box work

But I'll stop ranting on here since it doesnt help either. 

11:01 AM HST update.

HB2744 - passed with amendments. Senator Kurt Fevella made it a point to bring up the issue with the "any parts" portion of the "Ghost Gun" bill to which Karl Rhoads claimed that anyone possessing or purchasing spare parts or replacement parts (including upgrades) "shouldnt be a problem alone". Which is contradictory to the VAGUE language in the bill anyway. So basically, as written, if signed into law, they can make up crap as they go along if they want to bust someone for buying a spring detent for their AR-15 ...

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kinda makes it easy ban gun parts, all of 'em, with just a stroke of a pen, next time round.  including AR-15 pivot pin detent.  Camel sticks his nose under the tent, and ... it's bad, bad, bad.

Fudds need to wake up, heed the call.

Both bills passed the House PVM JUD committees.  We are still fighting the ammo bill and calling all firearms instructors to stay tuned for a call to action.  The ammo bill would prevent teaching basic firearms courses, stop some shooting events, and not allowing you to take friends and family to the range to shoot.