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I thought they killed preemption in 2020? Glad that's still there if not.We still have Statewide preemption. No-guns signs are only enforceable for schools and courthouses. People have been asked to leave stores such as IKEA for open carrying, but nobody is patting down concealed carriers. My wife went out dancing with her friends in downtown Portland last year at a place that was wanding. The security guard about **** himself when the wand screamed as he scanned at her ankles. She just smiled, said "must be the buckles on my boots" and kept going in. Buckles.
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Since you do not live in a state that is adjacent to Oregon, you cannot get an Oregon Concealed Handgun License. In Portland, Multnomah County prohibits loaded open carry without an Oregon CHL, so I guess you won't be visiting Portland any time soon.
Since leaving Oregon and watching it continue to devolve, honestly, I have zero desire to return even for a visit. Idaho is as far west as I'd care to travel at this point. I spent 2 months shy of 39 years in Oregon. Born there, raised there, that state hadn't felt like "home" in a long time.
I did ask WCSO if I could convert my Oregon CHL to a non-res CHL, and the guy I talked to just laughed. He said he'd document my leaving (I contacted them after moving to Texas) and that my card was no good anymore, and that I should destroy it. Its sitting in my office cabinet as a momento of another lifetime.
I never went anywhere unarmed there. Happily, legally carried to every school function, every parent teacher meeting. Its stupid that they changed it. Texas' laws about carrying guns are stupid in some ways - they have force of law to no-guns signs, and its a cluster fk of 4 or 5 different laws which dictate who / where you can and cannot carry.
Public schools K-12 are no bueno, hospitals, nursing homes, day cares, sporting events, poling places (cannot exercise your right to vote, while exercising your right to carry) plus any establishment that makes 51% or more of its gross revenues from the sale of alcohol to be consumed on-site. Any business displaying the appropriate signage (small victory, the signage must meet specific criteria or its unenforceable) - one sign to ban *licensed* concealed carry, one sign to ban *licensed* open carry, and one sign to ban permitless carry of any kind. With passing of permitless carry, they created a two-tiered system. Those of us carrying under the permitless law are prohibited from carrying certain places CHL holders can go. CHL holders are still banned from the places listed above.
Concealed means concealed, none the less. Lot more road ragers here, lot more stupidity as you get close to Houston proper - but its just like Portland, only if Portland was literally the size of the state of Connecticut in land mass, and had 7 million people in its metro. We have almost twice as many people in the greater Houston area as there are in the whole state of Oregon.
We moved to a small town - pretty much like Forest Grove in relation to Portland - our little town is about 40 miles by air from the city center, on the far outskirts of the metro area. I try avoid Houston proper as much as possible.