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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.
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TODAY
MONDAY
A passing shower
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A blend of sun and
clouds
74° 53°
81° 59°
TUESDAY
Partly sunny with
spotty showers
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hot
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79° 59°
86° 59°
92° 65°
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88° 62°
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HIGH
LOW
75°
78°
101° (1961)
43°
52°
34° (1920)
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Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
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June 20 June 27
5:05 a.m.
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11:35 p.m.
Last
New
July 6
John Day
67/50
Ontario
79/55
Bend
69/48
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78/55
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71/55
77/57
Tacoma
Moses
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Pullman
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Astoria
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Portland
Enterprise
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Pendleton 61/46
The Dalles 81/55
74/53
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La Grande
Salem
66/49
79/58
Corvallis
78/58
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HIGH
94° 62°
Seattle
76/59
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July 12
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69/43
Caldwell
78/55
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
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Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
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La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
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Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
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Klamath Falls
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Boardman
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Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today; a
couple of showers near the Idaho border.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Clouds and
sun today; a passing shower across the
north during the afternoon.
Western Washington: Sunshine and some
clouds today. Mainly clear tonight. Partly
sunny tomorrow.
Cascades: Some sun today with a stray
shower in the afternoon.
Northern California: Partly sunny today;
colder in the interior mountains.
Today
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National Summary: A heat wave will build over the Midwest, while storms briefly cool the
Deep South and soak the northern Plains today. Downpours from Bud will bring drought
relief and raise the risk of flooding in the Southwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 106° in Lamar, Colo.
Low 25° in Waterville, Wash.
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