-Removes Oregon State Police as designated state point of contact for purposes of National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
-Requires gun dealer to obtain authorization to transfer firearm directly from system.
-A similar bill (HB 2791), introduced by Representative Thatcher, failed in the 2011 legislative session.
Position: Oppose
Status: Senate Committee on Judiciary
Provides person licensed to carry concealed handgun in another state with protection provided to person with Oregon concealed handgun license.
Position: Oppose
Status: Referred to Senate Judiciary Committee
Authorizes sheriff of county to issue concealed handgun license to any qualified person who is a resident of Oregon.
Position: Oppose
Status: Referred to Judiciary Committee
Exempts transferee who is certified participant in Address Confidentiality Program from private firearm transfer criminal background check requirement.
Position: Oppose
Status: Senate Committee on Judiciary
Requires gun dealer to substitute alternative fingerprint for criminal background check if firearm purchaser is unable to provide thumbprint.
The concept of this bill has been added to FRMA (was SB 764, awaiting a new bill number in Senate Rules Committee).
Position: Support
Status: Senate Committee on Judiciary
Exempts concealed handgun licensees from private firearm transfer criminal background check requirement.
Position: Oppose
Status: Senate Committee On Judiciary
Directs Department of State Police to study reasons for certain denials of concealed handgun license applications and report results to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary on or before February 1, 2019.
Sunsets January 2, 2020.
Position: Support
Status: House Committee On Judiciary
-This bill would confer concealed handgun license privileges to parole and probation officers.
-Currently, honorably retired police officers are conferred CHL privileges.
-Parole and probation officers must apply for a CHL just as other citizens do.
Position: Oppose
Status: Senate Committee on Judiciary
Requires court to notify person found guilty except for insanity of sex crime of obligation to report as sex offender.
Requires court to notify person found to be person with mental illness when state or federal law prohibits person from purchasing or possessing firearm unless person obtains relief from prohibition.
Requires court to notify person determined to lack fitness to proceed that federal law prohibits person from purchasing or possessing firearm unless person obtains relief from prohibition.
Position: Support
Status: House Committee On Judiciary
Allows person harmed by criminal act resulting in physical injury or death to bring action for damages against place of public accommodation if place of public accommodation prohibits visitors from possessing firearm.
Ceasefire Oregon suggests a corollary: Anyone harmed by a criminal act in a location where guns are permitted are allowed to bring action for damages.
Position: Oppose
Status: House Committee On Judiciary