Supporters of Measure 114 are confident in their chances to defend the law despite some uncertainty over the viability of high-capacity magazine bans In less than two weeks, a voter-approved 2022 ...

A new state law banning rapid fire devices that turn guns from semi-automatic to fully automatic weapons went into effect Friday. Democratic members of the state Senate Judiciary Committee pushed for ...

SALEM, Ore. (KPTV) - Governor Tina Kotek signed the Community Safety Firearms Act (Senate Bill 243) into Oregon law on Wednesday, immediately banning rapid-fire devices and clarifying regulations for ...

After a long drawn-out battle in the Oregon Legislature that drew thousands of public comments, lawmakers last week beefed up restrictions on who and where people can carry guns in the state. Members ...

Rapid-fire devices are illegal in Oregon, and local governments can prohibit concealed weapons in public buildings. Gov. Tina Kotek held an event commemorating the passage of the Community Safety ...

Data from state police suggests fewer Oregonians seeking background checks, but the complexity of cases flagged for a potential criminal record has stirred debate Advocates for gun owners and the ...

Rick Bowmer / AP The Oregon Legislature has voted to ban rapid-fire devices and give local governments new authority to prohibit people from carrying a concealed handgun into certain public buildings.

SALEM, Oregon — This week in the Oregon Legislature, while one gun control bill did not make it past the House, another is on its way back to the Senate. House Bill 3076, which would have created a ...

Dec. 14, 2012 -- Friday's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., is the second deadliest shooting in American history, but whether this mass tragedy will yield any ...

Researchers looked at firearm fatalities in the 13 years immediately after the Supreme Court limited local governments’ ability to restrict gun ownership. By Roni Caryn Rabin Firearm deaths of ...

Federal action has been slow, but laws have been passed at the state level. — -- Shannon Watts, a mother of five who became a gun control activist in the wake of the shooting at Sandy Hook ...