Steven Mace
02-19-2002, 03:23 AM
Buying A Gun Might Soon Be Illegal In Oregon
Shop Owners Await New Paperwork
PORTLAND -- It might soon be illegal to purchase a gun in Oregon.
Regulations recently passed by the Oregon Legislature require business owners to fill out paperwork anytime they sell or transfer ownership of a gun. Without the form, the sale is illegal.
The law go into effect at midnight Tuesday, but Oregon gun shop owners say that they have not yet received the new paperwork.
"Approximately 30 percent of the secondhand stores, I'm not sure what the margin is for big retailers, but its substantial. Not only that, but it's effecting a constitutional right, so you know somebody dropped the ball," gun shop owner Lance Barkley says.
It is not known when that paperwork is supposed to arrive.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms regulates the new program.
Posted: February 18, 2002
http://www.koin.com/news/20020218_gunsales.shtml
Steve Mace
Shop Owners Await New Paperwork
PORTLAND -- It might soon be illegal to purchase a gun in Oregon.
Regulations recently passed by the Oregon Legislature require business owners to fill out paperwork anytime they sell or transfer ownership of a gun. Without the form, the sale is illegal.
The law go into effect at midnight Tuesday, but Oregon gun shop owners say that they have not yet received the new paperwork.
"Approximately 30 percent of the secondhand stores, I'm not sure what the margin is for big retailers, but its substantial. Not only that, but it's effecting a constitutional right, so you know somebody dropped the ball," gun shop owner Lance Barkley says.
It is not known when that paperwork is supposed to arrive.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms regulates the new program.
Posted: February 18, 2002
http://www.koin.com/news/20020218_gunsales.shtml
Steve Mace