Gun Policy News
Oregon Lawmaker, Gun Lobby Fight to Allow Hidden Handguns for Felons
24 February 2010
Oregonian (Portland)
SALEM -- Lawmakers scrambled Wednesday to fix what they called a "mistake" in a bill from last year that vastly broadened rights of convicted felons to obtain a license to own a gun in Oregon.
But opposition from the gun lobby quickly doused all but a single tweak: Felons must make their requests to a Circuit Court judge instead of a justice of the peace.
Language in a 2009 bill inadvertently changed state law to allow felons to apply to have their gun rights... (GunPolicy.org)