Wow, Gov Brown owns an "antique shotgun". Sounds like she's really trying to connect with gun owners.
Election 2018: Kate Brown and Knute Buehler on guns
Here's the meat and potatoes:
KATE BROWN
Election 2018: Kate Brown and Knute Buehler on guns
Here's the meat and potatoes:
KATE BROWN
- Universal background check law (Senate Bill 941, 2015), requiring criminal and mental health checks for nearly all private gun sales and transfers: Signed it into law
- Ban on gun and ammunition ownership for convicted domestic abusers and people with certain restraining orders against them (Senate Bill 525, 2015): signed it into law
- Expansion of firearms ban in local courts to include municipal, juvenile and other courts; measure also prohibited certain pocketknives (Senate Bill 385, 2015): signed into law
- Extreme risk protection law (Senate Bill 719, 2017), which allows a judge to take guns away from people who may harm themselves or others: signed it into law
- Closing the "boyfriend loophole" by expanding an existing ban on guns for people with stalking and domestic violence convictions (House Bill 4145, 2018): requested the legislation, made it one of her top priorities and signed it into law
- Should Oregon ban the sale of certain semiautomatic firearms and define them as "assault weapons"? Yes
- Should Oregon require gun owners to keep them in a safe or other locked container or secured with a trigger lock? Undetermined
- Own a firearm? "Yes, I have an antique shotgun."
- Universal background check law (Senate Bill 941, 2015): voted "no"
- Ban on gun and ammunition ownership for convicted domestic abusers and people with certain restraining orders against them (Senate Bill 525, 2015): voted "yes"
- Expand firearms ban in local courts to include municipal, juvenile and other courts, and prohibits certain pocketknives (Senate Bill 385, 2015): voted "yes"
- Require a 10-day waiting period to purchase firearms if Oregon State Police is unable to conduct a background check (House Bill 4147, 2016): voted "no"; bill passed the House but died in the Democrat-controlled Senate
- Extreme risk protection law (Senate Bill 719, 2017), which allows a judge to take guns away from people who may harm themselves or others: voted "no"
- Closing the "boyfriend loophole" by expanding an existing ban on guns for people with stalking and domestic violence convictions (House Bill 4145, 2018): voted "yes"
- Should Oregon ban the sale of certain semiautomatic firearms and define them as assault weapons? No
- Should Oregon require gun owners to keep them in a safe or other locked container or secured with a trigger lock? Undetermined
- Own a firearm? "Yes. One for self-protection. I have a 9mm handgun. Then I have a shotgun. Occasionally I go bird hunting with friends … Then I have a (.22-caliber) rifle I use just for varmint hunting."