The situation in Oregon is not as bad as portrayed.
We have a fairly unrestrictive "shall-issue" CCW law with a long track record of not being a problem.
We have statewide pre-emption of localities passing their own weapons laws.
There is no AWB, nor is it likely that one will get passed unless it is by initiative, as a referendum will not make it past the Republican dominated House.
Class III is allowed, as long as one stays out of the People's Republic of Portland.
Initiatives have generally become harder and more expensive to get on the ballot due to recent legal changes. Though a double edged sword for many groups, this generally helps state RKBA as it would require a very expensive and visible battle to change the status quo instead of some cheap tinkering by ill-funded activists.
The problems:
As noted, we have our mini-Feinstein. Thankfully, she is not as influential as assumed. Her gun show bill was passed on the fallacy that there were no gun checks at all at gun shows. In reality, all she managed to do was push private transactions to the "Nickle Ads" or "Shotgun News."
Even the leading Republican politician, Kevin Mannix, is a RINO on RKBA, having formerly been a DINO on everything else in the 80s. This party switcher is more into the abortion debate than he is reliable with the base on gun issues.
A bad Court of Appeals case that remains the law on assault weapons. Judge DeMuniz, now on the Supreme Court, authored a piece of dreck in the late 80s about assault gun possession on public property. Part of that opinion is that so-called AWs have no legal protection under the State Constitution, as the founders could not, in 1859, have envisioned the creation of semi-automatic weapons, therefore only revolvers and lever action repeating arms are afforded definitive protection from regulation by the state in terms of ownership and other restrictions. This opinion is patently stupid, because bolt rifles and pump shotguns are left unprotected too. At the time, the Supreme Court denied review, but I think that if someone went for the logical ends of the faulty reasoning of that case, it would be heavily revised. It is still a time bomb in state jurisprudence however.
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As long as we can keep the lefties confined to the tri-county area, the less their impact is. It is in spreading that the danger comes. Right now, Portland is villified by nearly every other part of the state, but if their way of thinking becomes "mainstream" look out. My backup plan is to move to North Dakota.
<< That would be the old logging road that I was walking on.. not the State. 