Oregon gun control measures
Oregon passed Measure 114 in 2022, requiring permits to purchase firearms and banning high-capacity magazines. The law has faced ongoing legal challenges. Legislators and advocacy groups continue to debate expanding background checks, red flag laws, and other firearm regulations versus protecting gun rights.
Should Oregon maintain and expand its gun permit and magazine restrictions?
How OpenCampaign quiz-takers stand on this issue
44% call it a high-priority issue (rating it 7+ out of 10).
- Liberal11%
- Lean liberal43%
- Moderate11%
- Lean conservative15%
- Conservative20%
High-priority share over time
The high-priority share has ranged 39–52% since 2016. Election-year cohorts skew casual and under-rate every issue, so the dips around 2020 and 2024 partly reflect who took the quiz, not a shift in opinion.
Where do you stand?
Should Oregon maintain and expand its gun permit and magazine restrictions?
How important is this to you?
✓ You told us where you stand
Sources
New initiatives will help get illegal guns off our streets and take on emerging threats like untraceable 3D-printed guns.
Positions on this issue · liberal → conservative
- Strengthen Measure 114, ban assault-style weapons, and expand red flag and universal background check laws.
- Uphold the permit-to-purchase system and magazine limits; add safe storage and red flag law improvements.
- Keep current laws in place while reviewing constitutional challenges before adding further restrictions.
- Repeal the magazine ban but retain background check enhancements; oppose additional firearm restrictions.
- Repeal Measure 114 entirely as unconstitutional; oppose new gun regulations and protect Second Amendment rights.