Voter-approved Oregon gun control law violates the state constitution, judge rules - eviltoast
An Oregon judge has ruled that a voter-approved gun control law violates the state constitution. The decision on Tuesday continues to block it from taking effect and casts fresh doubt over the future of the embattled measure.

A voter-approved Oregon gun control law violates the state constitution, a judge ruled Tuesday, continuing to block it from taking effect and casting fresh doubt over the future of the embattled measure.

The law requires people to undergo a criminal background check and complete a gun safety training course in order to obtain a permit to buy a firearm. It also bans high-capacity magazines.

The plaintiffs in the federal case, which include the Oregon Firearms Federation, have appealed the ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The case could potentially go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Respectfully, reality doesn’t agree with your opinion. In states where elected officials have taken action to pass gun safety laws, fewer people die by gun violence. These laws absolutely work.

    Anyone with a little mechanical skill, a hobby lathe, and a 3D printer can manufacture a fully automatic gun

    Yeah, sounds so simple. Totally not more effort than walking into a store and buying one.

    Universal mental health care, free education and job training

    Totally agree there - and there is no reason we can’t have that AND reasonable gun laws. Never understood the false dichotomy.

    programs to find “loners”, who are involved in most mass shootings

    I’m glad you put “loners” in quotations because these people didn’t get radicalized alone. Top law enforcement officials say the biggest domestic terror threat comes from white supremacists. These are not “lone wolves.” They have been brainwashed by extreme right-wingers to hate anyone who is different.

    • lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the well-worded reply. My concern is that we are preventing citizens from exercising a right. Restricting guns seems like the easy thing to do - if you’re not a gun rights supporter. I live in a place where it can take law enforcement a while to reach me. Until then, I’m on my own. Being limited to a 10-round magazine and going up against someone with a 100-round rotary magazine could leave me dead. I hope it never happens, but it could. There are illegal pot farms up here, and being suspected of turning one in can get ugly quick.

      We have yet to exhaust other less intrusive ways to curtail gun violence. The fact that all psychological disqualifying conditions are not used to determine gun purchases is appalling to me. Politicians are more concerned that a person might avoid seeking treatment to hide their condition. And how can some who have threatened or committed unwarranted violence on others still buy a firearm? These issues need to be addressed before the government infringes on everyone’s right. Instead of legislating to address the least common denominator, stop those who’ve proven they lack good judgement from obtaining a weapon in the first place.