Reduce gun violence in Oregon by voting for Ballot Measure 114
10/20/2022
The Oregon-Idaho Chapter of the Methodist Federation for Social Action encourages everyone to vote for Ballot Measure 114 in the November Election.
The key elements of Measure 114 are:
- Measure 114 will help reduce gun violence in Oregon by requiring a permit to purchase a gun, hands-on safety training, fingerprints and a positive background check. Currently, if a background check is delayed, a person is allowed to purchase a gun without a background check.
- Measure 114 will also ban future sales of large capacity magazines. It will prohibit the manufacture, sale, transfer, and possession of magazines over 10 rounds, with limited exceptions.
The United Methodist Church urges “congregations to advocate at the local and national level for laws that prevent or reduce gun violence.” Some of those measures include:
- Universal background checks on all gun purchases
- Ratification of the Arms Trade Treaty
- Ensuring all guns are sold through licensed gun retailers
- Prohibiting all individuals under restraining order due to threat of violence from purchasing a gun
- Prohibiting persons with serious mental illness, who pose a danger to themselves and their communities, from purchasing a gun
- Ensuring greater access to services for those who have mental illness
- Establishing a minimum age of 21 years for a gun purchase or possession
- Banning large capacity ammunition magazines and weapons designed to fire multiple rounds each time the trigger is pulled
- Promoting new technologies to aid law-enforcement agencies to trace crime guns and promote public safety (Book of Resolutions, 3428)
~ Oregon-Idaho Chapter of MFSA