close Video ON TRIAL: Gun control opponents say law ‘erases’ constitutional rights A narrowly-approved measure dubbed America's" most extreme" gun control initiative will be on trial next week in Oregon.... The group argues a permit-to-purchase system will reduce homicides, suicides and other shootings." When our neighbors are bleeding, we cannot stand idly by," Rev.... Mark Knutson, one of the chief petitioners for the measure, previously told The Oregonian....