Oregon’s LGBTQ community worries that a new law will keep them from obtaining guns
The law grants county sheriffs and police chiefs discretion to determine who qualifies to purchase a firearm under a new permit-to-purchase program.
The law grants county sheriffs and police chiefs discretion to determine who qualifies to purchase a firearm under a new permit-to-purchase program.
Eight states and Washington, D.C., have high-capacity magazine bans as strict as the one Oregon has just passed.
In Oregon and Washington, 28 large fires are burning across 1.5 million acres. But the Bureau of Land Management noted that growth has slowed for a number of the major fires. The large Beachie Creek Fire east of Salem, Ore., had recorded no new growth in the previous day.
“After my discussions with VP Pence and others, the federal government has agreed to withdraw federal officers from Portland,” the Democratic governor said on Twitter.
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