A 39-year-old rock climber is facing a slate of attempted murder charges over an alleged plot to kill random people at a Smith Rock climbing event this weekend.
The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office arrested Samson Zebturiah Garner on Thursday and took him to the county jail on several charges each of attempted murder of multiple victims, attempted first degree assault, attempted second degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon.
Law enforcement recovered a Beretta 9mm handgun, a Sig Sauer 9mm handgun and an AR-15 from Garner when he was arrested. The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office seized those weapons under an extreme risk protection order during the arrest, meaning the courts will take those guns away for at least a year.
What a wild story! Sounds like the cops were ahead of him though. Man worked in IT. I wanna know what wore him this far down.
The gun stores weren’t. Additionally, the pro-gun community opposes the measures that took his guns away.
Not at all surprised. What’s with only taking them away for a year? Isn’t this a felony, meaning he should lose his right to own guns for life.
As another commenter pointed out, yes if found guilty it’s a lifetime firearms ban, if not he’s still out those guns for minimum of a year.
Functionally a ban on buying guns from gun stores. He can still easily buy an arsenal of semi-automatic weapons by buying them privately without a background check – again, thanks to the pro-gun community.
Oregon requires background checks for private sales.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Oregon?wprov=sfla1
But Idaho doesn’t
Which is how this shit goes. A state can care enough to add common sense laws. But if the state next door doesn’t, you have to REALLY hope your crazies really hate day trips
Maybe there should be some kind of federal law that addresses firearm ownership?
Not hurting the guns feelings is more important than the lives of innocent families.
Yeah, this came up when I posted it to the Portland group:
“Gunnels, the Deschutes County prosecutor, said Central Oregon law enforcement became aware of Garner after Portland police received tips about the potential shooting.”
Portland police started working with County law enforcement on Monday, when they found he was en route to the county on Thursday, they rounded him up.
Customer support. Or his waifu left him.