I honestly think that the council doesn't have the stomach to pass the ban knowing that it will bring long gun carriers (there are at least two who will LG OC if they pass the ban) to their city in greater numbers and more often than in the past. When their own Chief of Police says "OC isn't a problem" and they have people OCing into the council meetings....something they'd never seen before apparently.....they know they've poked a hornets nest and they've also been well informed of the legal limitations of anything they do pass....
In other words, why pass a "ban" that will piss off the extremist activists when the ban doesn't have any teeth, can't be enforced without exposing them to lawsuits, and doesn't apply to anyone that has a CHL or who unloads if they don't have a CHL.
I think they're honestly looking for another way to appease the anti's and the LibertyAshland group is making political hay out of having gotten most (but not all) of the LGA OC'ers to back off......they basically get recognized as "the moderate" gun rights folks as compared to the extremist ones and the Council really doesn't want this hot potato anyway.
They are about to get a warning though.....stop kicking the can or they will see the OC activists return. One of the councilors (at least) considers me on the extreme side and ID'd me to LibertyAshland as "the guy with the UZI at the council meeting".....LOL Not an UZI, just a Wilkinson Arms Linda 9mm pistol with a LONG magazine (30 rounds). Yet he hardly blinks at my FN with 20 or 30 round mags carrying rifle ammo. Ignorance is bliss I suppose.
As for amending it to a bill and passing it on the sly, this is a local city and they can't do that. They must consider the ordinance and either send it back to staff for re write, pass it, kill it, or table it. Tabling would allow them to put it back on the agenda at a later date and not have to start over. The only result we are going to settle for is pass it or kill it.
Pass it and bear the unintended consequences of being the ONLY southern Oregon city with a "ban" thus attracting activists from all of southern Oregon.
Kill it and see fewer guns on the street....their supposed goal......than if they "ban" them.
Hmmmmmmm