Like Ballot Measure 114—which this bill modifies—HB 4145 will put countless Oregonians at risk of jail time if they cannot prove they acquired standard magazines before a date that even the lawyers are not sure of. Keep in mind, no matter what you have been told, it is impossible to prove when you acquired a magazine. Any “affirmative defense” is an illusion. [More]
Sounds like it’s time for some enterprising manufacturer to date stamp mags before then and open a shop across the Idaho border.
It is repugnant to me that we should need to prove our innocence in any matter.
An out-of-state entrepreneur should offer magazine date stamping / laser engraving services for current owners of magazines.
My preference for AR-15 magazines would be “4/1/50” – April Fool’s Day 1950, well before Eugene Stoner’s AR-10 design for ArmaLite. Another choice would be “12/7/41”, because that is a date that will live on in infamy, or so we are told. Still another choice would be “4/19/75”, which would commemorate the Battle of Lexington and Concord, where Massachusetts Patriot militia forces resisted the confiscation of locally owned military supplies by British Regulars who had marched from Boston.