Truck gun (again)

[2Wheels4Ever]

Certaindeaf,
Your CHL only applies to sidearms, so an accessible long gun inside your vehicle is forbidden. IIRC there's a specific exception for transporting a long gun to/from a shooting event, like going to the range.

This only applies to those without a CHL. CHL holders are exempt from this law in Or. I looked into it a while back and this what I found. Sorry, no proof to back up my claims, but it is out there somewhere.

 

[ocarolan]

Your CHL only applies to sidearms, so an accessible long gun inside your vehicle is forbidden.

Did you read the law? ORS 166.250 1(b) restricts concealed handguns in vehicles but does not mention other firearms.

http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/166.250

As a curiosity, realize the ORS 166.210 (5) defines handgun specifically as follows, independently of federal status: "designed to be aimed or fired otherwise than from the shoulder". So that might be stretched to define (say) a chainsaw shotgun or certain AOW as a handgun. Note 166.210 does also define the term SBR and SBS, though not as exclusively with 'handgun'.

 

[Certaindeaf]

If your truckgun is a handgun, remember that you have to be in that car if it moves. Otherwise the poor unsuspecting spouse, friend or daughter, may end up getting into a bit of bother.

But what if you drive a bong?

 

[chemist]

Did you read the law? ORS 166.250 1(b) restricts concealed handguns in vehicles but does not mention other firearms.

http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/166.250

As a curiosity, realize the ORS 166.210 (5) defines handgun specifically as follows, independently of federal status: "designed to be aimed or fired otherwise than from the shoulder". So that might be stretched to define (say) a chainsaw shotgun or certain AOW as a handgun. Note 166.210 does also define the term SBR and SBS, though not as exclusively with 'handgun'.

That's exactly what I said, Sir:
"(5) Handgun means any pistol or revolver using a fixed cartridge containing a propellant charge, primer and projectile, and designed to be aimed or fired otherwise than from the shoulder."
- http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/166.210

Y0ur OR CHL specifically excludes the carry of long guns - meaning any shoulder-fired weapon. That restriction automatically invokes the ATF limitations on minimum barrel length (12") and minimum overall length (26") for any shoulder-fired weapon that doesn't carry a tax stamp.

An exception is the newly recognized PGO "shotgun," thus my original comment. That means a 7.62X39 or 5.56 "pistol" is a legit concealed-carry weapon while a rifle of the same caliber is not, although you might have some 'splainin to do should it come to that.

 

[ocarolan]

Thanks chemist. Just to be 100% clear:

Concealed long gun in vehicle = OK
Concealed and readily accessible handgun in vehicle = May violate ORS 166.250

http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/166.250