The group Ohioans for Gun Safety is making a push to get a popular gun control measure in front of voters.
According to the group鈥檚 spokesman Dennis Willard, they鈥檙e focused on one issue: getting passed in Ohio.
Volunteers for the group spent Election Day at polling sites statewide, asking for signatures to put a new gun control law on the 2020 ballot.
鈥淲e had a really great day. We had between 100 and 200 volunteers across the state,鈥� Willard said. 鈥淲e also were very strategic about sending our volunteers to precincts where we knew or anticipated that there would be high voter turnout.鈥�
At this stage of , Ohioans for Gun Safety needs to collect more than 130,000 signatures from half of the counties in the state. Then the proposal goes in front of the legislature, which has four months to consider it. If they reject it or pass an amended version, the authors of the proposal have to collect another 130,000 signatures to get it on the ballot.
Willard says they鈥檙e working with local chapters of the gun control group Moms Demand Action to get the signatures.
Ohioans for Gun Safety has not yet tallied the signatures gathered so far because they're waiting for the petitions to arrive in the mail. But the push for signatures came on the same day the state legislature began hearings on in Columbus.
According to a July 89 percent of adults in the U.S. support universal background checks on gun sales.
DeWine is asking the legislature to enact , the kinds of unregulated sales often referred to as falling under the
Willard applauds DeWine for raising the issue with a legislature that is skeptical of gun control measures.
鈥淏ut unfortunately, his proposal on background checks falls woefully short of what we think is needed,鈥� Willard said.
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