Universal Background Check Proposal May Be Headed To Ohio Ballots

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Posted July 23, 2019 2:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Sometimes, I hate being right.

I’d said that the group pushing for a ballot initiative on universal background checks in Ohio would keep pushing until they got it on the ballot. That’s the way activist groups do things, unfortunately. They just keep going until they get it on the ballot, then keep pushing that until they get what they want.

They’ve now succeeded in the first step for getting their proposal on the ballot.

Backers of a proposed citizen-initiated law to require background checks for most gun sales in Ohio have gotten the green light to start collecting petition signatures to, ultimately, place the measure on the statewide ballot.

The bipartisan Ohio Ballot Board unanimously voted Monday that the proposal, titled “An Act to Close Loopholes in Background Checks on Gun Sales,” doesn’t contain more than a single subject. That certification means that Ohioans For Gun Safety, the group behind the proposal, can now start to gather the required 132,887 signatures from registered voters in at least 44 of Ohio’s 88 counties.

If they do, state lawmakers would have four months to act on the proposed law, which would make Ohio the 12th state (as well as …Read the Rest

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