Posted June 21, 2019 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

In states with a ballot initiative process in place, gun control activists have found that to be a useful tool in their kit. From time to time, if the legislature of a given state is uninterested in enacting some gun control scheme, anti-gun groups simply try to use the ballot initiative process to circumvent lawmakers.

Unfortunately, it works more often than I’d like. In fairness, if it worked once it would be more than I like, but still.

Anyway, part of the strategy with these gun control ballot initiatives is that pro-gun groups have to expend resources fighting this, resources that aren’t available to fight for an expansion of gun rights or even just to hold ground against anti-gun legislators.

It’s a useful tactic…when it works.

Backers of a proposed citizen-initiated law to require background checks for most gun sales will have to restart their efforts after Attorney General Dave Yost rejected their proposed ballot summary on Thursday.

Yost, a Columbus-area Republican, wrote in a rejection letter to Ohioans For Gun Safety that their proposed summary language – a succinct explanation of the proposal provided to voters asked to sign a petition supporting the measure — inaccurately stated that their measure would …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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