http://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/opponents-say-ore-initiative-to-ban-assault-rifles-explicitly-comes-for-your-guns/283-530640255Even more controversial is the requirement that legal gun owners would need to give up or register their current guns with authorities.
The initiative would require any person in possession of an assault weapon to sell, surrender or remove the weapon from the state, or render it inoperable, within 120 days of passage, according to the language.
Any violation would be a Class B felony.(1)(a) "Assault weapon" means any:(A) Semiautomatic rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and has at least one of the following:
(i)
Any grip of the weapon, including a pistol grip, a thumbhole stock or any other stock, the use of which would allow an individual to grip the weapon, resulting in any finger on the trigger hand in addition to the trigger finger being directly below any portion of the action of the weapon when firing; (ii) Any feature capable of functioning as a protruding grip that can be held by the non-trigger hand;
(iii) A folding or telescoping stock;
(iv)
A shroud attached to the barrel, or that partially or completely encircles the barrel, allowing the bearer to hold the firearm with the non-trigger hand without being burned, but excluding a slide that encloses the barrel;
(v) A forward pistol grip;
(vi)
A flash suppressor, muzzle brake, muzzle compensator,
or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor, muzzle brake, or muzzle compensator;
(vii) A bayonet mount; or
(viii) A grenade launcher or flare launcher;
(B)Semiautomatic pistol, or any semiautomatic centerfire or rimfire rifle with a fixed magazine, that has the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds of ammunition; (C)Semiautomatic, centerfire rifle that has an overall length of less than thirty inches;
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(E) Semiautomatic shotgun that has both of the following:
(i)
Any grip of the weapon, including a pistol grip, a thumbhole stock or any other stock, the use of which would allow an individual to grip the weapon, resulting in any finger on the trigger hand in addition to the trigger finger being directly below any portion of the action of the weapon when firing;(ii) A folding or telescoping stock;(F) Semiautomatic shotgun that has at least one of the following:
(i) A fixed magazine capacity in excess of ten rounds; or
(ii) An ability to accept a detachable magazine;
(G) Shotgun with a revolving cylinder
“This is completely out of hand — I couldn’t believe it,” Oregon Rep. Bill Post, R-Keizer, told the Statesman Journal Tuesday night. “I’ve been told so many times by people in favor of gun control: ‘No one is coming to take your guns.’ This explicitly comes for your guns.”
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