Exempts transferee who is certified participant in Address Confidentiality Program from private firearm transfer criminal background check requirement.
Position: Oppose
Status: Senate Judiciary and Ballot Measure 110 Implementation
The public hearing is cancelled and the bill is dead. SB 396 is the second time in three years that Oregon has killed a bill that would ban undetectable and/or untraceable guns.
Three dimensional printing (also called additive manufacturing) allows criminals and terrorists to make firearms that do not have a serial number, thereby rendering a firearm untraceable to law enforcement. The process also allows criminals and terrorists to make firearms without mechanism (called a security exemplar), thereby rendering a firearm undetectable by metal detectors.
Position: Support
Status: Dead in Committee
Ceasefire Oregon is neutral on HB 4005. We are encouraged that the legislature wishes to address the issue of unsecured guns and we recommend additional measures that research shows to be effective at increasing rates of gun storage, reducing gunshot death and injury, and addressing gun trafficking. Scroll to the bottom of this page for related studies.
Please contact your legislator and ask that HB 4005 be amended to include provisions that will make this bill a strong, effective law that will reduce gun violence.
Position: Neutral
Status: House Judiciary Committee
Cities, counties, metropolitan service districts, school districts, colleges, and universities can prohibit concealed handgun license holders from carrying loaded, hidden guns in public buildings, including buildings owned by the state.
Position: Support
Status: Senate Judiciary Committee
Portland International Airport (PDX) can prohibit people with concealed handgun licenses from carrying loaded, hidden guns into the passenger terminal. Passengers' firearms must be unloaded and in a locked, hard-sided container for the purpose of transporting the gun as checked baggage in accordance with federal law.
This complex bill now has 21 amendments, the most recent (-20 and -21) were submitted February 25.
Position: Support
Status: Joint Committee on Transportation
Specifies procedures for providing notice to defendant in charging instrument and at arraignment when conviction would result in firearm prohibition.
Position: Support
Status: Senate Judiciary Committee
HB 2013 passed the Oregon House and Senate and is now waiting for Governor Brown's signature.
HB 2013 bill closes a dangerous loophole in the Extreme Risk Protection Order law and provides tools and confirmation procedures for police to remove firearms from people convicted of domestic violence.
Position: Support
Status: Signed by Governor Brown, effective date was June 4, 2019
Provides professional standards for community college and university security teams. Ensures that individuals can only be arrested or detained under appropriate circumstances and are not subject to "stop and frisk" actions other than by actual police officers. Provides guidance on outward appearance of non-police uniforms and vehicles from those of certified law enforcement agencies so individuals can know if they are dealing with actual police officers.
Position: Support
Status: Enacted into law and effective May 24, 2019
Allows gun dealer or person transferring firearms, firearm accessories, firearm components, ammunition or ammunition components for purchase at gun show, or business engaged in repairing or servicing firearms to establish minimum age of 21 years for such purchases, repairs or services.
Position: Support
Status: July 1, 2019: End of session, bill was not passed
Prohibits manufacture, purchase, transfer and sale of firearm magazines that hold more than ten rounds.
Position: Support
Status: July 1, 2019: End of session, bill was not passed