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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, 1903 Or. Special Laws 31, An Act to Incorporate the City of Portland, ch. 3,§ art. 4, § 73, pt. 36-38(1903)To regulate or prevent the storage, manufacture, and sale of dangerous, explosive, or combustible materials, including gunpowder, dynamite, giant powder, calcium carbide, nitro-glycerine, oil, and gas, and to provide for the inspection of the same; to prevent, by all proper means, all risks of injury or damage by fire arising from negligence, or otherwise[.]Item type:Item, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Portland and Table of Grades 207 (1879)(1879)§That any person or persons who shall fire any pistol, gun or rifle, or any other species of fire-arms, within the corporate limits of the city, shall, on conviction thereof before the Police Court, be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars: Provided, That all circumstances of necessity may be plead as a defense to the offense described in this section; and, provided further, that the Chief of Police may permit upon the national holidays and other days of public celebration any appropriate display of firearms named in this section.Item type:Item, 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.]Item type:Item, Ordinances of the Town of Jacksonville 44-45 (1876)(1876)Ordinance No. 53, § 9: All persons are forbidden to shoot or fire off any gun within said cemetery enclosures, or put or turn loose any animal therein.Item type:Item, 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,Item 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, 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, 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, Ordinance No. 317: An Ordinance Concerning Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, THE DAILY ASTORIAN, Feb. 22, 1879, at 3, § 2 (Astoria, OR)(1879)That any person or persons who shall fire any pistol, gun or rifle or any other kind of fire-arms within the corporate limits of the city, shall on conviction thereof before the Police court, be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollarsItem 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, 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.Item type:Item, 1885 Or.§Laws 263-64, An Act to Incorporate the City of Junction and Repeal An Act Entitled "An Act to Incorporate the City of Junction;" approved October 20, 1872, § 6.(1885)[The] Mayor and common council . . . shall have exclusive power within the corporate limits of said city§. . . to regulate . . . the discharge of firearms or other preparation of gunpowder or combustibles of any kind[.]