According to Firearm Chronicles
Real good news are indications the disease might not be as bad as people feared. When your good news is “hey, maybe not quite as many people might die,” it’s time to recalibrate your expectations out of life.
However, on the gun rights side of things, it seems there’s an upside to COVID-19.
This is the season when Oregon initiative campaigns normally crank up their canvassing drives to gain enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
But it’s hard to gather signatures when most people are staying at home and don’t want to get close to canvassers carrying a clipboard.
As a result, the coronavirus crisis is knocking out ballot measure campaigns with grim efficiency — to the point that Oregon this year may have the fewest number of citizen initiatives in more than four decades
Initiatives dealing with gun control, clean energy and highway tolls appear increasingly unlikely to make the ballot. …
One measure calling for tougher firearms storage requirements just recently received a final ballot title, clearing the way for signature-gathering. But Jake Weigler, a spokesman for State of Safety Action, said the group has decided to pull the plug. “With the delays in getting the ballot title finalized and the challenge of gathering signatures in the current pandemic environment,” Weigler said, “we’ve just decided it’s not a viable strategy of trying to go forward to put this on the 2020 ballot.