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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Saturday, June 16, 2018 Ballot title for strict gun storage rules faces legal challenge Round-Up, Happy Canyon win Rose Parade awards ing at the Clackamas Town Center in 2012 — want to get the petition on the ballot in November. Challengers Keely Hop- kins, state director for the National Rifle Association, and Paul Donheffner, legis- lative committee chair for the Oregon Hunters’ Association, expressed concerns about reg- ulating how gun owners store their weapons. “...IP 44 dictates particular storage and transfer require- ments while imposing condi- tions that unduly burden the ability of law-abiding citi- zens to use arms for self-de- fense and other lawful pur- poses,” their petition states. “Safety and storage is a mat- ter of personal responsibility and subject to each individu- al’s particular circumstances and needs.” Opponents of the ballot title for IP 44 also claim the caption, as written, focuses on the locking requirement and doesn’t adequately describe the penalties for failing to comply. “While it is true there is no state or federal law that requires trigger/cable locks on firearms, that requirement that would be imposed by IP 44 is a minor change in the context of the consequences of not putting a trigger/cable lock on a firearm,” wrote Dominic Aiello and Asha Aiello, who filed a petition Thursday. The third petition was filed by Kevin Starrett, head of the Oregon Firearms Federation. Paul Kemp, one of the chief petitioners supporting IP 44, says that the group behind the measure, Oregonians for Safe Gun Storage and Report- ing Lost/Stolen Firearms, has arranged to hire a paid signa- ture gathering firm to try to meet the July 6 deadline. By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau SALEM — Three legal challenges were filed this week against the ballot title for an initiative petition to impose storage requirements on Oregon gun owners. The court challenge dras- tically shortens the time sup- porters have to gather signa- tures to get Initiative Petition 44 on the ballot, but they are publicly optimistic about the effort. Ballot titles are the brief caption, summary and description of the result of a “yes” or “no” vote printed for each measure on the ballot. If anyone objects to the title, they can petition the Oregon Supreme Court to review the language. The Oregon Supreme Court on Friday consolidated the three challenges to the IP 44 ballot title into one case, and set a June 25th deadline for the Oregon Attorney Gen- eral to respond to the chal- lenge. Challengers will then have until June 28 to file their own response to the AG. Initiative Petition 44, filed in early April, would require gun owners to secure their firearms in a lock box or using a trigger or cable lock. It would also require them to report if one of their guns is stolen or lost within 24 hours of learning of the theft or loss. Failure to comply with those requirements would be considered a violation, not a crime. The measure would also hold gun owners civilly lia- ble for five years following an incident for injuries resulting from a failure to comply with the measure’s requirements. Supporters of the petition — including family members of people killed in the shoot- Photo courtesy Portland Rose Festival Happy Canyon 2018 princesses Tayler Craig and Sequoia Conner. The Happy Canyon princesses won first prize in both the Vern Hulit Award and the Native or national costume divisions. The Happy Canyon and Pendleton Round Up Court pose with Adam Baker, Royal Rosarian Prime Minister, during the Spirit Moun- tain Casino Grand Floral Parade June 9 in Portland. The Pendleton Round- Up Court won the award for best rodeo or fair queen and court. Photo courtesy of Portland Rose Festival, Joana Dinu Richardson to protect voters from purging the opposite direction. He’s even got a bill in mind. “Despite today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, Ore- gon remains a national leader in protecting voting rights,” Richardson said in a state- ment. “In Oregon, we believe that a registered voter should not lose their voting rights solely because they haven’t participated recently.” The law upheld by a 5-4 court opinion allows Ohio By DIRK VANDERHART Oregon Public Broadcasting Secretary of State Den- nis Richardson has no inter- est in following Ohio’s lead. In the wake of news Mon- day that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld Ohio offi- cials’ policy of aggressively taking “inactive” voters from the state’s voter rolls, Richardson announced he’ll continue taking Oregon in officials to take voters off the rolls if they don’t vote or respond to notices for a total of six years. It’s considered one of the stricter laws in the nation, but it’s not unique. Until last year, Oregon policies allowed vot- ers to be labeled “inactive” if they didn’t update their voter registrations or vote in at least five years. Richardson changed that rule. In one of his first acts as secretary of state, he announced he’d be tak- ing voters off the rolls after 10 years of inactivity — not five. Richardson has esti- mated it would affect roughly 60,000 voters. And in a sign that the Republican wasn’t just playing politics, an analysis suggested more Democrats than Republi- cans would be helped by the change. 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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