Exempts transferee who is certified participant in Address Confidentiality Program from private firearm transfer criminal background check requirement.
Position: Oppose
Status: Senate Judiciary Committee
Modifies procedures for issuing extreme risk protection order. Modifies court findings for issuing order. Requires court to schedule second hearing seven days after issuing initial ex parte order and to order respondent to engage in mental health evaluation. Directs court to, at second hearing, consider results of mental health evaluation and either terminate order or order third hearing and second mental health evaluation. Directs court to, at third hearing, terminate order or continue order for final 30 days
Position: Oppose
Status: House Judiciary Committee
Exempts from private transfer criminal background check requirement transfer of curio or relic firearm to person licensed as collector under federal law.
This bill would allow an unnecessary loophole in firearm background checks for those purchasing "curios and relics" and also opens a new avenue for firearms to be classified as curios or relics. For example, a 3D printed firearm could be considered a "curio" in the future.
Position: Oppose
Status: House Judiciary Committee
Measure 114 requires a permit to purchase a firearm, hands on training before a firearm is purchased, a successfully COMPLETED background check, and limits high-capacity magazines to ten rounds.
Position: Support
Status: Measure 114 is is the law in Oregon.
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: Senate Judiciary Committee
Provides that person or public body that establishes gun-free zone is liable for damages resulting from certain crimes committed in gun-free zone, if reasonable person would believe that possession of firearm could have helped individual defend against crime. A similar bill, HB 2173, failed in 2017.
Position: Oppose
Status: House Desk Awaiting First Reading
Appropriates to the Department of State Police, for the biennium ending June 30, 2023, out of the General Fund, the amount of $2,600,000, for the purpose of funding the Firearms Instant Check System unit of the department.
Position: Support
Status: Senate Committee
Provides person with privileges and legal defenses available to person with Oregon concealed handgun license if person is licensed to carry concealed handgun in another state that recognizes Oregon concealed handgun licenses.
Position: Oppose
Status: Referred to Senate Judiciary and Ballot Measure 110 Implementation
Creates credit against personal income tax for cost of criminal history record check required by state law for transfer of firearm. Creates subtraction from taxable income for mileage for travel associated with criminal history record check.
Position: Oppose
Status: Referred to House Revenue
A work session in the House Judiciary Committee on March 30, 2021 sent this bill to the House Rules Committee.
Firearm background checks should be completed and approved before the sale or transfer of a firearm. The Charleston Loophole, however, allows sales or transfers to be completed without a background check. HB 2543 will require gun sellers to respect existing laws, including longstanding laws prohibiting felons, abusers, fugitives from justice and other prohibited purchasers from buying guns.
Position: Support
Status: House Rules Committee