by admin | Jul 5, 2022 | Firearm Issues
The Editors / The Bulletin / Jan 11, 2014 Oregon state Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, is back at it. When the Legislature convenes next month, he plans to introduce a bill to expand background checks on gun purchasers. Prozanski supported a similar proposal in...
by admin | Jul 5, 2022 | Firearm Issues
By Erica Goode / New York Times / December 15, 2013 GREELEY, Colo. … Colorado’s package of gun laws, enacted this year after mass shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., has been hailed as a victory by advocates of gun control. But if...
by admin | Jul 5, 2022 | Firearm Issues
By Chad Garland / The Associated Press / February 6, 2014 SALEM Getting caught with a little marijuana won’t prevent you from getting a concealed handgun license in Oregon. That is, if it happened in the state and after 1973.Oregon law generally prohibits...
by admin | Jul 5, 2022 | Firearm Issues
State Gun Laws Enacted in the Year Since Newtown / New York Times / December 10, 2013 About 1,500 state gun bills have been introduced since the Newtown massacre 12 months ago. 178 passed at least one chamber of a state legislature. 109 have become law. 70 of the new...
by admin | Jul 5, 2022 | Firearm Issues
By Lauren Dake / The Bulletin / Feb 7, 2014 SALEM Armed state police officers stood at the ready at the Capitol on Thursday as lawmakers listened to testimony on one of the more emotionally charged measures of the short legislative session: expanding background...
