Gun Control & RKBA

ammoland: .................... Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund that spent $764,232.35 .. How much did ALL the pro-Second Amendment groups spend? Ready? It was a grand total of $88,000.

beevul asks: Why does Bloomberg have to spend nearly ten times as much in lobbying money as the pro-gun lobby, if this is what the voters wanted in the first place?

Do you need be spoonfed? Your question is specious & sophomoric. It wasn't that Bloomberg needed spend 10 times more than the gun lobby promoting private sale bg checks in Oregon, it was that the gun lobby realized it would be throwing away money on a likely defeat, so that it limited itself to a relatively minor financial involvement. Bloomberg set a limit for involvement - that the gun lobby opted out realizing it was a forlorn hope, does not imply Bloomberg intentionally outspent the gun lobby 10 to 1.

Everytown spent nearly $600,000 on the 2014 election — $450,000 in contributions to candidates and committees, and $110,000 on other grassroots efforts. Part of that was devoted to strengthening the Democratic majority in the state Senate, the key battleground. Democrats ended up expanding their majority by two seats to 18-12 in the Senate.
The {democrat} party holds a stronger majority in the House. Gov. John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, is a longtime supporter and is expected to sign the bill if it passes.

With solid majorities in the state house & senate & a democrat governor, why would the nra invest much to try to defeat the gun control proposal?

beevul: Why does Bloomberg have to spend nearly ten times as much in lobbying money as the pro-gun lobby, if this is what the voters wanted in the first place?

Do you need be spoonfed? voters wanted background checks in 2013 after newtown by nearly 90%, yet republicans in the senate defeated the measure by filibuster. Voters wanted bg checks 'in the first place' yet they didn't get them thanks to the republican senate.
Bloomberg wanted to ensure legislature awareness of WHAT the voters wanted, & voter awareness to keep up the pressure on state legislators, to make sure what happened in the US senate did not happen in Oregon.