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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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    ASTORIA, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES, ch. 5, § 38, nos. 21 & 23 (Astorian Publishing Company 1891).
    (1891)
    §To regulate the storage and sale of gunpowder; dynamite, nitro glycerine, oil, or combustible material and to prevent by all possible means danger or risk of injury or damage thereby by fire from carelessness, negligence or otherwise. To regulate the storage of tar, pitch, rosin, lacquer, and the use of candles, lamps and other lights in stores, shops, stables, and other places, to suppress, remove and secure any fire place, stove, chimney, oven, or boiler, or other apparatus which may be dangerous in causing fire. Also provided for the regulation of concealed carry weapons
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    Ordinance no. 1341, § 21, ASTORIA, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES (J. S. Dellinger 1896).
    (1891)
    Any person or persons who shall fire off or discharge any ordnance, gun, pistol, rifle or other fire-arm within the City Limits of Astoria, or any fire-works or fire-crackers of any kind or description, in that portion of the City west of Salmon street, north of Wall street or Court street and east of Madison street, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
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    The Charter of Oregon City, Oregon, Together with the Ordinances and Rules of Order 259 (1898)
    (1898)
    Prohibited the carrying of any slingshot, billy, dirk, pistol, or "any concealed deadly weapon," and the discharge of any firearm, air gun, sparrow gun, flipper, or bean shooter, unless in self-defense.
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    1893 Or. Laws 79, An Act to Prevent a Person from Trespassing upon Any Enclosed Premises or Lands Not His Own Being Armed with§a Gun, Pistol, or Other Firearm, and to Prevent Shooting upon or From the Public Highway, §§ 1-3.
    (1893)
    It shall be unlawful for any person, other than an officer on lawful business, being armed with a gun, pistol, or other firearm, to go or trespass upon any enclosed premises or lands without the consent of the owner or possessor thereof. § 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to shoot upon or from the public highways. § 3. It shall be unlawful for any person, being armed with a gun or other firearm, to cause, permit or suffer any dog, accompanying such person, to go or enter upon any enclosed premises without the consent of the owner or possessor thereof; provided; that this section shall not apply to dogs in pursuit of deer or varmints.
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    1895 Or. Laws 95
    (1895)
    An Act for the Protection of Game, Fish and Wild Fowl of the State of Oregon, and to Provide for the Appointment of§a Fish and Game Warden, § 16. Every person who shall use any batteries or swivel or pivot-gun, or any other gun than one to be held in the hands and fired from the shoulder, either from the shore or on a boat, raft or other device, on the Columbia river, or on any other lake or river in the state of Oregon, at any time, for the purpose of shooting wild ducks, geese, swan or other water fowl, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as hereinafter provided.
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    1893 Or.§Laws 29-30, An Act to Punish the Pointing of Firearms at a Human Being, § 1.
    (1893)
    It shall be unlawful for any person over the age of sixteen years, with or without malice, purposely to point or aim any pistol, gun, revolver, or other firearm, within range of said firearm, either loaded or empty, at or toward any other person, except in self-defense. And any person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than six months, or both.