USA Today reports on the gun violence prevention measure on ballots across the country, including Initiative 1491:

Voters in four states will decide on proposed gun restrictions next month, as gun-safety proponents, often rebuffed by Congress and state officials, increasingly turn to ballot initiatives to push passage of stricter firearms laws.

Voters in Maine and Nevada will decide whether to expand background checks for gun buyers. In Washington state, where activists passed a background-check measure two years ago, voters will decide whether judges can temporarily stop people who pose threats to themselves or others from possessing guns. And in California, voters will decide on measures that ban high-capacity magazines and require people buying bullets to first undergo background checks.

Gun-safety advocates say the wave of new ballot initiatives — along with intensifying focus on the issue in the presidential race and in a handful of hotly contested U.S. Senate races — mark a dramatic shift from a little more than three years ago when the Senate defeated a compromise plan to ban some semi-automatic weapons and expand background checks.

Read the full piece here.