A massacre at a school in Texas has spurred a ballot initiative in Oregon that would require permits to purchase firearms and ban large-capacity magazines
on gun safety in recent years, or moving in the opposite direction, activists see voter-driven initiatives as a viable alternative.
The National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action has already come out strongly against the initiative, saying onthat"these anti-gun citizens are coming after YOU, the law-abiding firearm owners of Oregon, and YOUR guns. They don't care about the Constitution, your right to keep and bear arms, or your God-given right of self-defense."
Voters in two predominantly Democratic neighboring states have already passed gun safety ballot measures. The same year, voters in Maine narrowly defeated a proposal to require background checks before a gun sale. The Oregon initiative needs to deliver at least 112,080 registered voters’ signatures — verified by the secretary of state’s office — by July 8 to get on the ballot, Knutson said. By this week, more than 52,000 signatures were received by the campaign. He’s already planning to have teenagers deliver the boxes of sheets to the secretary of state's office in Salem aboard school buses.
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