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SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- A waiting and vetting period would be baked into gun purchases in Oregon if a measure on the November statewide ballot passes. If

For years, Rev. W. J. Mark Knutson, pastor at Augustana Lutheran Church, held services at his red brick church in Northeast Portland following mass shootings in the US—ringing the church’s bell again and again for lives lost in the country’s gun violence epidemic. Those services took a toll—and inspired Knuston to make a deeper commitment to memorialize those killed. In 2016, Knuston helped pull together a group of more than one hundred faith leaders and...

One of the nation’s strictest gun control measures will go before Oregon voters next month because of volunteer signature gatherers as young as 11 and as old as 94. Measure 114 would require a permit ...

One of the nation’s strictest gun control measures will go before Oregon voters next month because of volunteer signature gatherers as young as 11 and as old as 94.

Will passing the initiative make Oregon a safer place or merely deny people their constitutional right to bear arms? Or will it do both?