HB 3836 : Removes OSP as Point of Contact (POC) for Firearm Background Checks 2025
Position: Oppose Status: Referred to Speaker's desk.
Department of State Police no longer performs NICS checks for gun dealer firearm transfers.
Update
3-4 (H) Referred to Judiciary.
2-27 (H) First reading.
Chief Sponsor: Representative Yunker
Regular Sponsors: Representative Boice, Diehl
House Bill 3836 seeks to weaken the firearms background check system by removing the Oregon State Police as the point of contact for firearms-related background checks requested by gun dealer as required by law.
Persons ineligible to purchase firearms, including felons, domestic abusers, persons with serious mental illness, and others, are identified through a national system of mandatory background checks which, since 1998, has been implemented through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). States have the option of serving as the point of contact (POC) for background checks, or allowing the background checks to be initiated directly with the NICS. Oregon has elected to serve as a POC state, and our firearms background checks are made through the Oregon State Police (OSP).
The Oregon POC check includes enhanced purchaser identity verification, determines whether the gun being sold has been reported stolen or lost, and checks mental health records.
Similar bills to remove OSP as Oregon’s POC have been introduced in the Oregon legislature for years but have failed to pass because they are ineffective and endanger the lives of all Oregonians. (HB 2791 in 2011, and SB 553 in 2017.)