Oregon

Statewide, open carry of a firearm requires no permit under Oregon law. However, ORS §166.173 (confirmed via an official-mirror fetch) lets any city or county adopt an ordinance regulating/restricting/prohibiting possession of a LOADED firearm in public places (concealed handgun licensees are exempted from such local ordinances by the statute itself). Portland and some other Oregon cities have used this to effectively require a concealed handgun license to openly carry a LOADED firearm within city limits, while unloaded open carry remains legal without a permit even there. So the real answer depends on the specific city/county and whether the firearm is loaded.

Oregon has no statute prohibiting firearms in places of worship; carry there is a property-owner decision.

No Oregon statute restricts carry by location in bars/restaurants. ORS 166.370 (public buildings) explicitly exempts CHL holders and does not mention alcohol establishments at all; no other on-point restriction was found.

Oregon's concealed handgun license exempts a person from licensing when in their own residence or place of business, and this expressly extends to 'a recreational vessel... while used as residential quarters' — so a liveaboard boater needs no license at all. Separately, Oregon licensing guidance notes firearms may be posted off-limits on 'buses, shuttles, boats, or ferries,' meaning a specific vessel (e.g., a public ferry, a chartered tour boat) can lawfully exclude firearms by posting. A private recreational boat that is not posted and not used as a residence falls under Oregon's general CHL rules, which are not otherwise water-restricted — but the vessel-specific carve-outs above mean the answer genuinely depends on the type of vessel.

ORS §166.370 generally EXEMPTS concealed handgun license holders from Oregon's public-building firearm ban (166.370(3)(g)) — so a CHL holder may generally carry into an ordinary public government building like a DMV office or city hall, unless the local governing body has separately restricted and posted that specific building under the statute's procedure. Court facilities are treated differently: carrying in a court facility is a Class C felony that applies to CHL holders too, with no public-building exemption.

Under ORS 166.370(3)(g), a concealed handgun license is ordinarily an affirmative defense allowing campus carry, but 2021's SB 554 (Or. Laws ch. 146) lets public university/community-college governing boards adopt a policy revoking that defense (with required signage). Most Oregon public campuses have opted out and ban firearms (a policy stance the Higher Education Coordinating Commission first adopted system-wide in 2012); private institutions set their own policy independently.

Oregon is a shall-issue state with 'very few restrictions on where a concealed firearm may be carried' and statewide preemption; no statute found requiring affirmative business opt-in. Standard opt-out/trespass model applies.

No OR statute requires advance owner consent; general criminal trespass law (ORS 164.245) requires notice before presence becomes unlawful (opt-out default).

No Oregon source I found lists airports among restricted locations (usacarry.com's list: courthouses, correctional facilities, federal buildings, school/university grounds, designated recreational areas, and posted private property). Portland International is owned by the Port of Portland, a public authority, and I could not verify whether it (or Oregon's public-building carry rules) treats the terminal differently, so this is unconfirmed.

Oregon requires a concealed handgun license to carry a concealed firearm, and this is treated as covering a firearm out of view in a vehicle. A firearm carried openly in a belt holster is not considered 'concealed' and needs no license. Loaded firearms in snowmobiles are separately prohibited.

Or. Rev. Stat. §166.370 makes a 'public building' — a defined term that includes hospitals — generally off-limits to firearms, but §166.370(3)(d) expressly exempts 'persons licensed to carry a concealed handgun' from that prohibition. So a CHL holder specifically may carry in an Oregon hospital even though an unlicensed person may not; available sourcing didn't fully resolve whether the 'public building' hospital category reaches privately-owned hospitals as well as government-owned ones, but the CHL exemption applies either way.

Oregon requires a concealed handgun license (issued by county sheriffs); state law makes it unlawful to carry concealed 'upon the person or ... in a vehicle' without a license, implying licensed carry in a vehicle is lawful, and I found no rest-area-specific restriction. Sourced via NRA-ILA; I could not independently pull the full primary statute text.

No Oregon statute found imposing a duty to inform law enforcement of concealed carry, proactively or if asked.

The current text of ORS 166.291(1)(c) requires the applicant to be "a resident of the county," with no bordering-state language visible in the codified statute I could access. However, well-corroborated secondary/practitioner sources (e.g., a sheriff-oriented CHL training site) state that some Oregon county sheriffs still issue CHLs to residents of bordering states (Washington, Idaho, Nevada, California) — a longstanding practice that may rest on older statutory language or individual sheriff discretion I could not fully verify from the current statute alone. Given this conflict between the plain statutory text and consistent practitioner reporting, treat as conditional/uncertain and confirm directly with the specific Oregon county sheriff before relying on it.

Or. Rev. Stat. §166.370(1) bans firearms in public buildings, which includes schools and adjacent grounds, but §166.370(3)(d) carves out concealed handgun licensees from that public-building ban — meaning the DEFAULT state rule allows CHL-holder carry at a K-12 school. However, a 2021 law (SB 554) lets individual school districts override this and prohibit even licensed carry on their own property with proper posted notice, and many larger districts have done so — so the real-world answer varies district by district.

Oregon's general second-degree criminal trespass statute (ORS 164.245) turns on whether entry is 'unlawful,' and ORS 164.205's definitions historically emphasize a lawful order 'personally communicated' for premises otherwise open to the public — suggesting a posted sign alone, without personal communication, may not be sufficient in Oregon, though I could not fetch the definitions section directly to confirm this in this session. No Oregon-specific firearms-signage statute exists.

ORS 166.170 vests firearm regulation "solely" in the Legislative Assembly, BUT ORS 166.173 is a named, real carve-out: cities/counties MAY adopt ordinances regulating possession of LOADED firearms in public places (the basis for Portland-area restrictions). Critically, such local ordinances by their own terms do NOT apply to persons licensed to carry a concealed handgun — so a CHL holder's concealed carry is effectively still governed solely by state law, while unlicensed/open loaded carry can be locally restricted.

No Oregon statute found prohibiting firearms at polling places; 2025-2026 legislative gun-law activity found (SB 243, Measure 114 implementation) concerned permit-to-purchase and magazine limits, not polling places. Based on MAP research plus this negative check.

Ballot Measure 114 (approved Nov. 2022) includes a 10-round magazine limit, but it has been permanently enjoined by the Harney County Circuit Court on Oregon constitutional grounds and has never been enforced. The case is now before the Oregon Supreme Court (argued Nov. 2025; ruling still pending as of research date). NOT currently in effect. If the law is ultimately upheld, legislature-passed HB 4145 would delay its effective date to 2028.

Extreme Risk Protection Order, ORS 166.525 et seq. (2017). Petitioners: law enforcement officers and family or household members.

ORS 166.272 makes knowing possession of a machine gun, SBR, SBS, or firearm silencer a Class B felony outright — Oregon does NOT exclude NFA-compliant owners from the definition of the crime. It instead gives two lesser protections: subsection (3), a peace officer 'may not arrest or charge' someone with documentation of federal registration in immediate possession; and subsection (4), federal NFA registration is only an affirmative defense the defendant must prove if charged. In practice NFA-compliant possession is treated as legal, but the legal exposure is real — reliant on an arrest-avoidance rule and a court defense rather than being outside the statute entirely; Form 1/4 paperwork must be on hand.

No SYG statute; case law (State v. Sandoval, 342 Ore. 506, 513-514 (2007)) establishes no duty to retreat when lawfully present.

Or. Rev. Stat. § 166.435 (Oregon Firearms Safety Act, SB 941, 2015) requires nearly all private transfers to be processed through a licensed dealer for a background check; exception for transfers to a spouse/domestic partner and other listed family members. Separate from Ballot Measure 114's permit-to-purchase provisions (delayed to 2028 by HB 4145 pending litigation) — that delay does not affect this pre-existing § 166.435 requirement, which remains in force.