A new Oregon law that requires a permit for the purchase of firearms and bans large-capacity magazines, will remain on hold after the state’s Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s temporary restraining order halting its enforcement.
Ballot Measure 114, which was passed by Oregon voters on Nov. 8, was initially scheduled to take effect on Dec. 8.
However, in denying state Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum’s requests for a writ of mandamus and a stay of the Dec. 6 restraining order, Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Martha Waters ensured that the law’s enforcement would be put off for at least another week….