Oregon Knife Laws: What You Need to Know - Survival Sullivan
"Oregon is a state of stark contrast. On one side, you can own any kind of knife you want, and there are no outright restrictions on blade length. On the other side, there are intricate, lengthy and widely scattered laws covering everything from when, where and how you can carry concealed if you can carry your knife at all at one of many restricted locations. Topping it off, an absence of statewide preemption means you'll need to deal with increasingly restrictive and baffling knife restrictions in various cities and settlements throughout the state.
Worse yet, a frightening amount of legal precedent is derived from case law and opinion, not necessarily found anywhere among the statutes where a lay person could easily find or access them. This means that it is tough for even a motivated and intelligent person to come up with all the info they need to have confidence in making a correct decision without the benefit of attorney oversight where knives are concerned.
Prepare yourself: Oregon's laws on weapons violations are verbose and difficult to track through all their loops, twists and turns.
We have done much of the hard homework already in order to bring you this article, but as always you will be the one on the hook if you should run afoul of law enforcement while carrying a knife that is prohibited or just carrying a legal knife in a prohibited way in the Beaver State."
................Statutes follow at link above............
"Oregon is a state of stark contrast. On one side, you can own any kind of knife you want, and there are no outright restrictions on blade length. On the other side, there are intricate, lengthy and widely scattered laws covering everything from when, where and how you can carry concealed if you can carry your knife at all at one of many restricted locations. Topping it off, an absence of statewide preemption means you'll need to deal with increasingly restrictive and baffling knife restrictions in various cities and settlements throughout the state.
Worse yet, a frightening amount of legal precedent is derived from case law and opinion, not necessarily found anywhere among the statutes where a lay person could easily find or access them. This means that it is tough for even a motivated and intelligent person to come up with all the info they need to have confidence in making a correct decision without the benefit of attorney oversight where knives are concerned.
Prepare yourself: Oregon's laws on weapons violations are verbose and difficult to track through all their loops, twists and turns.
We have done much of the hard homework already in order to bring you this article, but as always you will be the one on the hook if you should run afoul of law enforcement while carrying a knife that is prohibited or just carrying a legal knife in a prohibited way in the Beaver State."
................Statutes follow at link above............