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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2018
Initiative petition seeks
Seaside bus shelter
replaced after fatal crash gun storage requirements
One of the
‘busiest stops’
Measure could
go to voters in
November
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — Bus riders
will soon see some respite
from the elements in Seaside.
Six months after a crash
claimed the life of Robert
Miles, 42, of Warrenton, and
critically injured a 41-year-
old Washington state man, the
northbound South Roosevelt
Drive shelter will be replaced.
Last week, contractors
resurfaced the ground in
preparation for an April 11
shelter installation.
“That’s one of our busiest
stops,” Paul Lewicki, opera-
tions manager for the Sunset
Empire Transportation Dis-
trict, said Monday. “It’s quite
uncomfortable and inconve-
nient for our riders to stand in
the weather. We’re happy to
do this now.”
In September, Corrissa
Barnett, of Seaside, allegedly
By CLAIRE
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Contractor Eric Huntsman at work raking the area of the
bus shelter in Seaside.
“We had one here that
we had planned for replace-
ment of another shelter, so
we’re redirecting that one,”
he said. “I feel bad it took us
so long to get this done, but
as with many projects, it has
red tape, different munici-
palities and organizations
involved. We’re close to the
end now.”
crashed an SUV into the shel-
ter. She is facing charges of
manslaughter, assault and
driving under the influence of
intoxicants.
The shelter, which costs
about $8,000 when purchased
new, was already among
the inventory at the Sunset
Empire Transportation Dis-
trict, Lewicki said.
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The state doesn’t go around
searching your liquor cabinet,
but if, for example, a minor
gets into a car accident while
intoxicated and authorities
learn that an adult purchased
or provided them alcohol, then
the law can be enforced.
Kevin Starrett, head of the
Oregon Firearms Federation,
criticized IP 44, and said that
a gun owner should have the
right to store the gun in a man-
ner they see fit and that is in
line with their “personal cir-
cumstances,” such as whether
or not there are young children
in the home.
“This is not how you solve
the problem of people who use
guns in a criminal fashion, by
punishing people who don’t
use guns in a criminal fash-
ion,” Starrett said.
Starrett also took issue
with a section of the measure
that would hold a gun owner
who transferred a gun without
securing it — either with a trig-
ger lock, cable lock or secured
container — liable for another
person’s injuries for five years
after the gun is transferred.
Gun control advocates have
tried to pass similar legislation
in prior legislative sessions,
mostly focused on preventing
minors’ access to firearms.
Petitioners are aiming for
the November ballot. In order
to go forward in the ballot title
process, the petitioners must
collect 1,000 signatures.
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ring a firearm to a minor must
directly supervise the minor’s
use of the firearm.
Under the measure, gun
owners would also face lia-
bility for injuries that result
from failure to meet those
requirements, unless the
injury “results from a lawful
act of self-defense or defense
of another person.” The liabil-
ity would apply for five years
after a violation of the mea-
sure, such as an unsecured
transfer.
One of the petitioners, Paul
Kemp, says part of the impe-
tus behind the measure was
the death of his brother-in-law,
Steve Forsyth, who was killed
in the Clackamas Town Center
shooting in 2012.
The shooter, who killed
Forsyth, 45, and Cindy Ann
Yuille, 54, and injured a
15-year-old girl, before killing
himself, stole the gun, a Stag
Arms AR-15, from a friend.
“Most folks who have guns
are pretty good about securing
them,” Kemp, himself a gun
owner, said. “The problem is,
there’s too many folks who
aren’t.”
The idea, says Jake Wei-
gler, a spokesman for Orego-
nians for Safe Gun Storage,
which supports the petition, is
to create an enforcement sys-
tem in the event that a crime
is committed, similar to how
adults can be held liable if they
furnish alcohol to a minor.
DEATHS
Ontario
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An initiative petition filed Monday would require gun own-
ers to take new security protections.
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FRIDAY
SALEM — Advocates
want to get a second gun-re-
lated measure on the statewide
ballot in November.
Initiative Petition 44, filed
Monday, would create addi-
tional storage, transfer and
reporting requirements for
gun owners.
The petition’s filing fol-
lows the February shooting
at Marjory Stoneman Doug-
las High School in Parkland,
Florida, and subsequent stu-
dent walkouts and marches
in support of tightening gun
regulations.
It also follows another
statewide initiative petition,
IP 43, that would ban the sale
of certain types of firearms in
Oregon and require owners of
those types of guns to undergo
a new background check and
register them.
The new measure filed on
Monday would amend state
statutes to require that a per-
son who owns or possesses a
firearm to “secure the firearm
with a trigger or cable lock
engaged or in a locked con-
tainer equipped with a tam-
per-resistant lock.”
It would also require a per-
son who “owns, possesses or
controls” a firearm to report
if the gun was stolen or lost
within 24 hours of learning of
the theft or loss. Additionally,
it would require people trans-
ferring firearms to do so with
a trigger or cable lock engaged
or in a locked container with a
tamper-resistant lock.
Transfer is defined in the
measure as “the delivery of
a firearm, including, but not
limited to, sale, gift, loan or
lease of the firearm.”
Finally, the measure would
require that a person transfer-
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