A person is exempt from firearm background checks if the person is a participant in the Address Confidentiality Program.
Position: Oppose
Status: Failed to pass out of Senate Judiciary Committee
Permits board of community college to determine whether to establish campus police department and commission police officers.
Position: Neutral
Status: July 1, 2019: End of session, bill was not passed
Reciprocity allows anyone with a concealed handgun license (CHL) in one state to carry in another state. Oregon's CHL requirements are so lax that not even Texas will accept Oregon's CHLs.
Position: Oppose
Status: Failed to pass out of House Judiciary Committee
Reciprocity allows anyone with a concealed handgun license (CHL) in one state to carry in another state. Oregon's CHL requirements are so lax that not even Texas will accept Oregon's CHLs.
Position: Oppose
Status: Failed to pass out of Senate Judiciary Committee
Concealed handgun license (CHL) requirements vary among Oregon counties. If a CHL applicant cannot or will not meet the higher standards in one county, the applicant can "shop" for a sheriff with more lax CHL requirements.
Position: Oppose
Status: Failed to pass out of Senate Judiciary Committee
Creates a tax credit for the cost of background checks for firearm sales and allows the travel mileage associated with the background check to be tax deductible.
Position: Neutral
Status: Failed to pass out of House Judiciary Committee
Authorizes school district to allow firearm safety instruction to eleven-year-old students on school property.
Position: Oppose
Status: Failed to pass out of House Education Committee
Requires agency, board, commission or other instrumentality of state that lawfully seizes firearm to transfer firearm to Department of State Lands for disposition as unclaimed property.
Position: Neutral
Status: July 1, 2019: End of session, bill was not passed
The Oregon gun lobby wants to take away YOUR voice to demand laws to reduce gun violence, and they want to take away Oregon legislator's right to do so as well.
IP 8 would put an end to firearm safety legislation in Oregon including bills passed by our Oregon legislators and initiative petitions. In addition, the gun lobby wants to be sure that weapons of war like AR15s and AK 47s are readily available for the mass shootings that are now common place in America.
Position: Oppose
Status: Attempting to collect 149,360 signatures
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: Died in Senate Committee on Judiciary