Requires person to obtain permit before purchasing or otherwise receiving firearm under circumstances requiring criminal background check. Specifies qualifications for permit and procedures for applying for and issuing permit.
Position: Support
Status: Senate Judiciary and Ballot Measure 110 Implementation.
June 1, 2021: SB 554B was signed by Gov. Brown.
May 5, 2021: SB 554B was passed in the Senate and now heads to Gov. Brown's desk for her signature.
The Oregon Senate passed SB 554A but significant changes were made by including HB 2510, the gun storage bill. The bill, now called SB 554B, passed the House on April 29 and will return to the Senate for a third reading (possible vote) on May 5, 2021.
The bill authorizes city, county, metropolitan service district, port operating commercial airport, school district, college or university to adopt ordinance or policy limiting or precluding affirmative defense for possession of firearms in public buildings by concealed handgun licensees. The bill also requires firearms to be kept under close physical control or locked. The bill requires reporting of lost or stolen firearms.
Position: Support
Status: Governor's Brown Desk Awaiting Her Signature
This bill is no longer active.
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
Although the bill description is, "To improve and reform policing practices, accountability and transparency," S 3985 lacks the necessary changes to address the policing crisis. (LCCHR)
Position: Oppose
Status: Senate Judiciary Committee
Congress must pass meaningful police reform legislation to protect Black and Brown communities from over policing, police brutality, misconduct, and harassment.
Position: Support
Status: Passed the House
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt is continuing the Trump administration’s efforts to expand hunting on more than 2.3 million acres of public recreation land throughout the country by proposing to expand hunting on National Wildlife Refuges.
Position: Oppose
Status: Secretary of Interior
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