Posted July 23, 2019 6:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

The state of Oregon is one of those states that loves them some gun control. They’ve passed plenty when they could but there’s a limit to everything.

A while back, an effort to push for a safe storage law called an end to their quest, though they did say they’d renew that effort. They still labored under the misguided belief that requiring people to lock up their guns regardless of their individual circumstances was somehow the right call, they just didn’t figure they could get it through.

I’d hoped they’d be gone for a little longer.

The reforms in question date back to 2018, when a group of state gun control advocates attempted to get a measure on that year’s ballot that would require all gun owners to secure their weapon with a trigger lock when not in use, and report lost or stolen weapons within 24 hours. The proposed measure also stipulated that if a gun owner fails to secure their gun and someone steals it, the owner can be held financially liable for any damage caused by their stolen weapon.

That 2018 initiative, Initiative Petition 44 (IP 44), was legally challenged by Second Amendment activists. …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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