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This top community organizes Firearms Research Center holdings by jurisdiction. It provides separate collections for U.S. states, territories, the District of Columbia, and the federal jurisdiction, spanning the territorial period to the present.

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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.OregonStart date: 1910

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    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 hereof
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    1933 Or. Laws 488, ch. 315, § 2
    (1933)
    Prohibited a unnaturalized person and person convicted of a felony against another person or the government from owning or possessing a pistol, revolver, other firearm, or machine gun. Punishable by imprisonment for 1-5 years.
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    1925 Or. Gen. and Special Laws 42, ch. 31, §§ 1-2
    (1925)
    Prohibited the setting of any loaded spring gun. Punishable by a fine of $100-500 or imprisonment for 30 days to 6 months. Exception for setting of trap gun to destroy burrowing rodents.
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    1933 Or. Laws 489, ch. 315, §§ 3-4
    (1933)
    Prohibited possession of a machine gun. Also Prohibited carrying a concealed machine gun, pistol, revolver, or other firearm.
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    1925 Or. Gen. and Special Laws 172-73, ch. 117, § 1.
    (1925)
    It shall be unlawful for any person over the age of twelve 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 $10 nor more than $500
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    1913 Or. Laws 433, ch. 232,§§ 22.
    (1913)
    It shall be unlawful at any time in the State of Oregon to shoot or discharge any gun at any game bird or game animal from, or while upon any railroad right of way, or any public road or highway.
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    1913 Or. Laws 497, ch. 256, §§ 1-2
    (1913)
    §It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to display for sale at retail any pocket pistol or revolver or to sell at retail, barter, give away or dispose of the same to any person whomsoever, excepting a policeman, member of the militia or peace officer of the State of Oregon, unless the purchaser or person attempting to procure the same shall have a permit for the purpose of procuring such pocket pistol or revolver signed by the municipal judge or city recorder of the city or county judge or a justice of the peace of the county wherein such person resides. Also provided that all dealers keep a record of their sales
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    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.

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