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.

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    10 months ago

    C’mon, this is easy… all you need is a large gathering of BLM people or antifa packing ARs and boom - this law will mysteriously pass before the media frenzy has had a chance to get it’s shoes on.

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      Nah, the result of that would be the national guard getting called and an oppressive use of force to put everyone back in their places. The media would either briefly display it in the news ticker mentioning that our national heros quelled a local terrorist attack or just say nothing about it.

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        10 months ago

        the result of that would be the national guard

        Do you know why they never called the national guard on the Black Panthers? Or why the pig never dared to confront them directly?

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          This is nothing more then a marketing campaign by the gun lobby to sell bullshit hero fantasies to left wing people too.

          “The pig” killed 34 members of the Black Panther Party, including outright assassinations.

          When the full details of the FBI involvment was revealed, the director of the agency issued a public apology for “wrongful use of power” and exactly 0 members of the pro-gun community used their guns to overthrow a government running projects like COINTELPRO.

          The BPP being armed didn’t just fail to deliver on everything you’re promising, it provided all the justification the state needed to abuse and murder them – an excuse police still use to this day.

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      We already have heavily armed BLM and Antifa folks. Oregon contains multitudes.

      The law in question was doomed to fail. I’m halfway sure it was put on the ballot just to encourage pro gun people to vote.

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      Except even during the most destructive and violent of BLM riots had armed participants, the pro civil rights people continued to stand by gun rights. You’ve been proven wrong and too ignorant to realize it, or too dishonest to admit it.

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        destructive and violent of BLM riots

        Oh, it was BLM doing the violence? It wasn’t the pigs and their neo-nazi proxies?

        pro civil rights people

        Oh, it’s the white supremacists that are “pro-civil rights”, is it?

        I think you’ve just unmasked yourself, fashboi.