Oregon ‘assault weapon’ ban initiative suffers crippling set back

By Chris Eger

Organizers of the drive need more than 80,000 signatures by July 6 and hoped the courts would clear their proposed ballot language this week to start the process. (Photo: Lift Every Voice Oregon)
A planned voter referendum aimed to regulate most semi-auto firearms in the state was dealt a blow by the Oregon Supreme Court on Wednesday.
The initiative, IP 43, is backed by a trio of Portland-area religious leaders who planned to raise the more than 80,000 signatures needed to put the proposal on the ballot over the course of this weekend’s services. To do so, they needed the court to certify the controversial ballot language this week and green light the effort. The court instead said the language needed more work.
In its 28-page ruling sending the matter back to the state Attorney General, the court pointed out that “different voters reasonably could draw different meanings from the term ‘assault weapons’—some might think that it refers to only military-style weapons; some might think that it refers to the types of weapons that are described in IP 43; and some might think that it refers to an even more broad group of weapons.”
The court made the same argument as to the meaning

Source: Guns.com