GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Fresh off a victory in Washington state, a leading gun control group backed by billionaire Michael Bloomberg is hoping to make Oregon its next prize in a campaign to require gun sales to go through universal background checks.

Everytown for Gun Safety backed a voter-approved initiative in Washington last year that made the state the 17th in the country to expand background checks past the federal standard applying only to licensed gun dealers.

“This is our top priority,” said the group’s spokeswoman Erika Soto Lamb.

The organization came out of a merger last year between Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns, and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. It has been spending tens of millions of dollars on political operations.

Now its attention is on Oregon, where the state Legislature narrowly failed to pass legislation two years running to require background checks for private gun sales.

According to state records, Everytown spent nearly $600,000 on the 2014 election – $450,000 in contributions to candidates and committees, and $110,000 on other grassroots efforts.
http://www.pressherald.com/2015/01/2...hts-on-oregon/

I guess getting his ass kicked on that Measure 90 ballot initiative (that would have destroyed the partisan primary system in Oregon and allowed rich out-of-state billionaires to even more easily "shop" for candidates) wasn't enough, so now he's going for the jugular.

If MAIG and "Moms" were such successful grassroots operations, why in the fuck did they need Bloomberg to bail them out and roll them into his "Everytown" umbrella group?

Fucking astroturf operation is all it is. If it weren't for his deep pockets, the gun control movement would have never rekindled in this country.