The group Lift Every Voice Oregon, made up of leaders from different faiths, has submitted three petitions for gun control measures to appear on the November 2020 ballot.  The measures would restrict the sale of semi-automatic firearms through tightened background checks, raise the minimum purchase age from 18 to 21 and ban the sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines.  One of the chief petitioners, Rabbi Michael Cahana, says faith leaders see addressing gun violence as a “moral imperative.”  Faith leaders, including Cahana, tried to get a similar measure restricting semi-automatic weapon sales on the ballot in 2018 in the wake of shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school, but that effort ran into legal issues.  If the state approves this year’s initiatives, backers will need to gather at least 112-thousand signatures this spring to get them onto the ballot.