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Oregon

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Oregon. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the territorial period through statehood to the present.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative rules, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, frontier, logging, maritime, railroad, and manufacturing records, and oral histories tied to Oregon people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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  • Item type:Item,
    1868 Or. Gen. Laws 18-19, An Act to Protect the Owners of Firearms, §§ 1-2.
    (1868)
    Every white male citizen of this state above the age of sixteen years, shall be entitled to have, hold, and keep, for his own use and defense, the following firearms, to wit: either or any one of the following-named guns, and one revolving pistol: a rifle, shot-gun (double or single barrel), yager, or musket; the same to be exempt from execution, in all cases, under the laws of Oregon. § 2. No officer, civil or military, or other person, shall take from or demand of the owner any fire-arms mentioned in this act, except where the services of the owner are also required to keep the peace or defend the state.
  • Item type:Item,
    1845-64 Or. Gen. Laws 531, ch. 43, § 527
    (1864)
    If any person shall assault, or assault and beat another with a cowhide, whip, stick or like thing, having at the time in his possession a pistol, dirk or other deadly weapon, with intent to intimidate and prevent such other from resisting or defending himself, such person upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one, nor more than ten years.
  • Item type:Item,
    1845-64 Or. Gen. Laws 530-31, ch. 43, § 524-25
    (1864)
    If any person shall challenge another to fight a duel, or transmit the message for another shall be guilty of a misdemeanor