Posted on 08/24/2010 12:32:30 PM PDT by Rio
MEDFORD, Ore. - Two lawsuits involving the Jackson County Sheriff's Office are costing the county more than $50,000, according to numbers released this week by the Medford Mail Tribune newspaper.
Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winters must pay more than $40,000 in legal fees in a case involving concealed handgun permit holder information.
And a second issue in which the same Sheriff denied a CHL to a "medical" marijuana user.
CCW is issued under state law, not federal. If she is legal in that state then the sheriff doesn't have a leg to stand on. I just read the Oregon CCW law in question, and nothing like "being in a state of violation of federal drug laws even without a conviction" is in there.
But purchasing a firearm requires answering the Federal
question about being addicted to marihuana, and having
a pot card is pretty good evidence that one is indeed addicted.
This is why it is so important to work at the local level to elect sheriffs like this one who put the rights of the people of the county above the rights of the media. A good man for the job!
It's about the CCW, not the purchase. I didn't see anything about that in the law.
having a pot card is pretty good evidence that one is indeed addicted.
Indicates a possibility, not a definite, and is also not part of the CCW law.
Got it covered.
And everyone that takes a drink is an alcoholic, I suppose.
depends on what the meaning of addict is. I suppose.
only you can answer that for yourself.
I’m sure that thousands of people just outright lie on the 4473 anyway. It’s not an honesty test...it’s a matter of what the Feds can prove, or will bother to pursue. Remember the Clinton claim that 250,000,000 felons had been stopped from buying weapons? Number of prosecutions: 8. These people were standing at the counter with a freshly signed federal document with a felony penalty for lying, and they’re just told to go away...without a gun, or maybe the girlfriend will come in and do the paperwork tomorrow.
Well, were I the sheriff, and aware that the applicant
was a potsmoker with an official potsmoker card, I’d err
on the side of caution and deny the permit, as he did.
Otherwize I might be talking to a delegation from the
BATFE instead of plaintiff’s counsel.
Well, I guess that comes down to an interpretation of "shall issue." Oregon pot growers are allowed to keep firearms in their homes, so long as they are a certain distance from their plants. It's goofy, but it's legal.
Winters is a great sheriff.
Why the hell should Bob Hunter, the leftist editor of the Trib, be allowed to know and possibly print, the names of CCW holders in Oregon?
He fought the valiant fight.
As an aside, the legislature last year came very close to passing a bill that would restrict groups finding out who owns CCW’s, and one creepy, liberal senator from Bend squashed the whole thing.
I notice the Trib’s not suing for the names of AIDS patients, or illegal aliens, or pot-growers and users, or people with sexually transmitted diseases...no, he just wants to know who owns guns and carries them.
Good for you, Sheriff Winters!
Ed
Grants Pass
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