Oregon gun control ballot initiatives are imploding

By Chris Eger

The Oregon Supreme Court is expected to rule on IP 43 as early as next week, at which point– if certified to proceed– organizers would face the challenge to collect 88,184 acceptable signatures in a matter of days. (Photo: Lift Every Voice Oregon)
Backers of a mandatory gun storage referendum are throwing in the towel on their campaign while a second, to ban “assault weapons,” is under pressure to qualify for the ballot.
On Wednesday, supporters of Initiative 44, Oregonians for Safe Gun Storage, announced they were suspending their efforts to put their proposal in front of voters. Calling it a “strategic choice,” the group said they were switching to an effort to advocate state lawmakers for a gun lock mandate next year rather than put the issue on the ballot this year.
The move comes as the language of the measure was tied up in litigation from Second Amendment groups for weeks and, facing a July 6 deadline to collect almost 90,000 signatures, they felt it would “almost certainly fail even with a large investment of resources and grassroots enthusiasm.”
The three-page measure would have made it a crime for someone possessing a firearm not in use to have it unsecured. The initiative

Source: Guns.com