Oregon Backers For Mandatory Lock-Up Law Calling It Quits…For Now

By Tom Knighton

A number of Oregon residents wanted to push for a law requiring gun owners to keep their firearms locked up. They were so convinced in their righteousness that they were going to force people to do something that they may or may not want to do. Such is the way of the busy-bodies that tend to make up the anti-gun jihad.

However, due to the fact that they’ve been getting their butts kicked over the effort, they’ve decided to take a step back. For now, at least.

Backers of a proposal that would have required Oregonians to lock up their guns announced Wednesday they are shelving their effort for now.

The group behind the proposal to strengthen the state’s gun laws, which includes two people who lost family members during the 2012 mass shootings at the Clackamas Town Center mall, said they will work to strengthen the state’s gun-storage requirements during the 2019 legislative session and ask voters to weigh in on the issue again in 2020.

The group blamed the gun lobby for stymieing their ability to collect enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.

Initiative Petition 44, which supporters called “Oregonians for Safe Gun Storage and Reporting Lost/Stolen Firearms,” …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms