Ohio Gun Control Activists Retry Ballot Initiative

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Elaine Thompson

Recently, an Ohio gun control group pushing for an anti-gun ballot initiative got its petition slapped down. Unfortunately, we all know how this sort of thing goes. The petition gets turned down, so the group reworks things until it can resubmit the initiative. There are rules that have to be followed, and once those are adhered to, the push begins again.

And indeed, that push has started.

Supporters of a measure that would expand background checks on gun sales submitted a new version to the attorney general Tuesday after he rejected the first submission.

Ohioans for Gun Safety, a grassroots group, gave the office of Attorney General Dave Yost an updated version of its petition that would effectively require that a background check occur in all gun sales.

In June, Yost rejected the first submission from the group, saying the summary accompanying the proposal did not accurately reflect what the proposal would do.

Because the proposal is an initiated statute, the petitioners will need about 135,000 valid signatures of registered Ohio voters to send the proposal to the General Assembly if the attorney general approves the language. Once there, it will likely sit without …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms