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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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    1862 Or. Spec. Laws 8-9, An Act to Incorporate the City of Albany, § 6.
    (1862)
    [To] regulate the storage of gun powder and other combustible materials, and the use of candles, lamps and other lights in shops, stables and other places[.]
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    1854 Or. Terr. Stat. 257, ch. 37, An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Arms and Ammunition to Indians, §§ 1-3.
    (1853)
    Prohibited any "white citizen" to sell, barter, or give any kind of firearm or ammunition to "an Indian."
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    1854 Or. Terr. Stat. 220, ch. 16, § 17
    (1853)
    If any person shall go armed with dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or other offensive and dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear an assault, injury, or other violence to his person, or to his family or property, he may, on complaint of any other person, having reasonable cause to fear an injury, or breach of the peace, be required to find sureties for keeping the peace for a term not exceeding six months, with the right of appealing as before provided.
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    Charter of the City of Portland, Street and Fire Department Laws, Ordinances, Regulations &C., at 205-206, Concerning Offences and Disorderly Conduct, § 2 (1872)
    (1868)
    That any person or persons who shall fire any pistol, gun or rifle, or any other species of fire-arms within the following limits: the Willamette river on the east and (10) Tenth Street on the west, Caruther's Addition on the south nd F Street on Couch's Addition on the north, shall on conviction thereof before the Recorder, be subject to a penalty of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisonment, at the discretion of the Recorder, not exceeding twenty days. Provided that the Marshal shall permit upon the national holidays and other days of public celebration, any appropriate display of fire-arms and other instruments named in this section.]
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    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.
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    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.
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    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