Oregon
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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.
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Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 317: An Ordinance Concerning Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, THE DAILY ASTORIAN, Feb. 22, 1879, at 3, § 7, 9 (Astoria, OR)(1879)Any person or persons who shall draw any kind of fire arms, or any dirk, dagger, knife or other deadly weapon upon the person of another, or who shall strike at the person of another with slung-shot, knuckles or any other dangerous weapon, within the corporate limits of the city, shall on conviction thereof before the police judge be fined not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than twenty days, or both.Item type:Item, 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 weaponsItem type:Item, 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.Item type:Item, Act of February 14, 1887, § 3, ALBANY, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES (C. W. Watts 1887).(1887)regulated the storage of gunpowder, discharge of firearms, and carrying of concealed firearmsItem type:Item, 1925 Or. Gen. and Special Laws 469-75(1925)it shall be unlawful for any person within this state to carry concealed upon his person or within any vehicle which is under his control or direction any pistol, revolver or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person without having a license to carry such firearm, as hereinafter provided in section 8 hereofItem type:Item, ALBANY, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES, no. 152, § 7-8 (C. W. Watts 1887).(1887)That any person or persons who shall carry any deadly or dangerous weapons of any kind whatever in a concealed manner within the corporate limits of the city of Albany, shall upon, conviction thereof before the Recorder's court be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the city jail not less than five days nor more than fifty days, or both at the discretion of the court;§Provided; That peace officers shall be exempt from the provisions of this section.Item type:Item, Ordinance no. 26, §§ 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 42, 45, & 46, GRANTS PASS, REVISED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY (Rogue River Courier Print 1894) (Approved 1889).(1889)Regulated the brandishing, possession, discharge, and concealed carry of firearms.Item type:Item, 1903 Or. Spec. Laws 34, An Act to incorporate the city of Portland, ch. 3, art. 4, § 73, pt. 56.(1903)To prohibit the carrying of deadly or dangerous weapons in a concealed mannerItem type:Item, 1917 Or. Gen. and Special Laws 804, ch. 377, § 1-11(1917)No person shall carry in any city, town, or municipal corporation of this State any pistol, revolver or other firearm concealed upon his or her person, or of a size which may be concealed upon his or her person, without a license or permit therefor, issued to him or her by a chief of police or sheriff of such city, town or municipal corporation, or in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance of such city, town or municipal corporation. This section, however, shall not apply to sheriffs and their deputies, constables, marshals, police officers or any other duly appointed peace officers, nor to any person or persons summoned by such officers to assist in making arrest or preserving the peace while said person or persons are engaged in assisting such officers; nor to duly authorized military organizations when parading, nor to members thereof when going to and from places of meeting of their respective organizations.Item type:Item, 1885 Or. Laws 33, An Act to Prevent Persons from Carrying Concealed Weapons and to Provide for the Punishment of the Same, §§ 1-2(1885)Prohibited the concealed carry of any revolver, pistol, or other firearm, or any knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or metal knuckles, or any instrument which could inflict injury upon another. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than ten dollars but no more than two hundred dollars, and/or jailed not less than five days but no more than one hundred days.Item type:Item, 1887 Or. Code 977-78, tit. 2, ch. 8, § 1969 (Vol. 1)(1887)Prohibited the concealed carry of any revolver, pistol, or other fire-arm any knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, metal knuckles, or any instrument which could inflict injury.Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punished by fine not less than ten but no more than two hundred dollars, or imprisonment not less than five but no more one hundred days, or both.