Expect Return Of Oregon Anti-Gun Measure

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Brennan Linsley

Oregon legislators had some ridiculous anti-gun bills up for consideration this year. Luckily, most of the worst died an ignoble death.

Unfortunately, those bills may be gone, but they’re far from forgotten. It seems anti-gun lawmakers have vowed to engage in a little political necromancy and raise at least one of those bills from the dead.

A multifaceted gun control bill pushed by Oregon Democrats may be dead this session, but advocates and opponents alike are confident it will return.

Senate Bill 978 was a casualty of the deal that got Senate Republicans to end their four-day walkout and return to the Capitol, allowing Democrats to pass a multibillion-dollar education revenue bill on May 13.

The move to include SB 978 in the trade disappointed gun control advocates inside and outside the Capitol, particularly since it dovetailed with the Moms Demand Action lobbying day two days later.

“We certainly had hopes that this would be a big year for sweeping gun control and gun regulation here in Oregon,” said Hilary Uhlig, state campaigns lead for Moms Demand Action in Oregon. “If it was too hard to stomach as a package, we are used to …Read the Rest

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