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By NRA-ILA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent article<\/a> on a gun control news site laments that the COVID-19 pandemic has thwarted ballot initiatives to expand gun bans and restrictions. Initiatives in Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio and Oregon have stalled, allegedly due to the difficulty in collecting signatures. \u201cWithout the pandemic, we certainly would have been able to collect the signatures that we needed,\u201d says a supporter of the Oregon initiatives.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unpacking this \u201cbut for COVID\u201d assertion more closely indicates that these gun control initiatives were not exactly slated for the slam-dunk success that their proponents would have voters believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Florida, an NRA-supported challenge succeeded<\/a> in getting a misleading gun ban kicked off the ballot. Anti-gun group Ban Assault Weapons Now (BAWN), a project of several gun control groups including the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and David Hogg’s March For Our Lives, had attempted to place the gun ban on the ballot in 2020, but failed to obtain the required signatures. Having secured roughly 175,000 signatures, in recent months the group’s goals shifted to placing the measure on the 2022 ballot. With the Florida Supreme Court’s decision, gun control advocates will have to start the ballot measure procedure over from scratch if they intend to continue this attack on Floridians’ Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Oklahoma ballot initiative, State Question No. 809 to rescind the state\u2019s constitutional carry law, was already going nowhere fast. The campaign to undo the 2019 law had bounced from failure to failure<\/a> before being halted by a court decision<\/a> on June 23. In that ruling, a nine-judge panel of the Oklahoma Supreme Court unanimously concluded that the language of SQ 809 was inaccurate, misleading, and legally insufficient. SQ 809 was declared invalid and ordered removed from the November 3, 2020 ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Jason Lowe (D-Oklahoma City), a primary sponsor of SQ 809, is quoted as saying that, \u201cif the pandemic hadn\u2019t happened, he\u2019d have amended the language and gotten the measure in front of voters in November.\u201d This is extremely doubtful. Rep. Lowe\u2019s earlier referendum petition on the carry law (State Question No. 803) was\u00a0dismissed by a court<\/a>\u00a0in October 2019 for being far short of the signature threshold needed to get SQ 803 on the ballot. A\u00a0news article<\/a>\u00a0describing the fallout of the June 23 court decision acknowledged that the problem was timing. Lowe\u2019s campaign to repeal the carry law would \u201cnot be able to start collecting signatures immediately,\u201d and was \u201cunlikely to have enough time to collect and turn in 178,958 signatures before the secretary of state\u2019s Aug. 24 deadline for petitions to qualify for the November ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Timing was also the critical issue in Ohio. The push for an initiative petition demanding so-called \u201cuniversal background checks\u201d began in 2016, although the petition itself was not filed until three years later. The Ohio Attorney General rejected<\/a> the petition summary because it was not \u201ca fair and truthful statement\u201d of the law being proposed. A new petition was submitted in July 2019, with the goal<\/a> of collecting enough signatures to get the measure on the 2020 ballot. By pre-COVID December, though, the proponents announced<\/a> they were pushing the timing back, with a new target ballot date in 2021. None of these delays can be due to pandemic-based stay-home orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Oregon initiatives are not a straightforward case of pandemic postponement, either. In 2018, Initiative Petition 43, to impose a ban on commonly owned semi-automatic firearms and standard capacity magazines, was invalidated<\/a> by the Oregon Supreme Court in a lawsuit brought by the NRA and other petitioners. Backers of the initiative opted to drop their efforts<\/a> to get the measure on the 2018 ballot and to focus, instead, on the 2020 election. The sponsors of IP 43 subsequently brought forward three gun control initiative petitions, IP 60<\/a>, 61, and 62<\/a>. Although the NRA again challenged the ballot title language, after some changes to the language the Oregon Supreme Court approved the ballot titles in April. A news article<\/a> states the petitioners had originally planned to \u201cselect one petition to gather signatures for after proposal language has been approved,\u201d but no signatures had been submitted for any of these petitions to qualify for the 2020 ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The narrative favored by gun control advocates is that their measures represent the views of the overwhelming majority of voters (assertions that \u201c81 percent of voters<\/a> in Oklahoma oppose permitless carry,\u201d and \u201c90% of Ohioans<\/a> support background checks,\u201d for example).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before COVID provided an excuse for the failure of these measures to get on the ballot, many similar initiatives that were voted on were either rejected outright or passed by much smaller margins than would be expected given the claims of overwhelming support. A 2016 ballot initiative<\/a> for universal background checks in Nevada was approved by just 50.45% of voters (but once passed, was found to be unenforceable as written). Question 3, a background check initiative in Maine that year, was rejected by voters.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that initiatives on issues other than increased burdens on gun owners will be voted on in\u00a0Oklahoma<\/a>,\u00a0Oregon<\/a>\u00a0and across America this November undermines the argument that the pandemic has wiped out gun control initiatives in 2020. A more plausible explanation is that now, with gun sales continuing to break records and an unprecedented number of first-time gun owners, Americans are less interested than ever in ineffectual restrictions on rights and freedoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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