Oregon wants to end metal detecting on all lands public and private!

[slow sweeper]

I found out about this on another site. Here's a link to sign a petition against this ridiculous Senate bill.

http://www.petitiononline.com/ORBill64/petition.html

May have already passed in the Senate and is heading to the House. I don't have the time to investigate this thoroughly. Can anyone else find out what's going on?

[Nashoba]

Man this one is just plain REDICULOUS! I sure as hell signed it!
~Nash~

[Ldy2Blu]

It's nice to see that Oregon has so much time on their hands, and extra money in their pockets, to expend energy on such a communistic bill. WTG Oregon lawmakers! You never cease to amaze me.
~Ldy2Blu

[savant365]

I don't live in Oregon, but if they get this passed there, it could spread all over the country. I gladly signed it. Look at what they (the gov't) have done to smokers across the country in the last few years. They have taken a "legal" product and just made it almost impossible to use. A law like this opens the door for all kinds of infringements on individual rights. It might not be long before it is "legal" to own a metal detector but impossible to use it anywhere.

[Ldy2Blu]

A friend of mine was gracious enough to take the time to research this bill. The following excerpt is in regards to what she uncovered:


In the 2005 legislative session there was a SB 64 dealing with
the knee jerk reaction to the idiot (Illegal Artifact Dealer) in Grants
Pass that ransacked Indian burial grounds and got federally sentenced. It
dealt with archeological digs primarily - but it did not make it out of the
Senate committee and was never sent to the house - it couldn't be enforced.


SO it looks as if there was in fact partial truth to the online petition. However I think we were all a day late and a dollar short in signing it....myself included!!

[slow sweeper]

I apologize for the confusion. But it is good news that this is old news.

[Nashoba]

Ah well better late than never but I damn sure don't want this kind of thing sneaking up on me....Kinda hard to believe I never heard anything about it when it WAS a potentially valid bill...........

Happy hunting folks
~Nash~

[scuffler]

Why do the socialist's worship the earth so much, can't they quit trying to control everything?

[HunterSteve]

Thank God!