Does Oregon Have an Assault Weapons Ban?

Oregon Revised Statutes section 166.170 vests the regulation of the sale, acquisition, transfer, ownership, possession, storage, transportation, or use of firearms and components, including ammunition, solely in the Legislative Assembly, while sections 166.171 through 166.176 authorize specified local rules involving discharge, loaded firearms in public places, and related subjects. Measure 114 addresses magazines and permits to purchase rather than visible semiautomatic-firearm features.

There has been no federal assault weapons ban since the 1994 ban expired in 2004; no feature restrictions apply federally to semi-automatic rifles or pistols. The 2023 ATF pistol-brace rule was vacated by the courts and is not enforced, but federal SBR classification for a brace-equipped firearm still turns on whether the specific weapon is designed and intended to be fired from the shoulder. Garland v. Cargill (2024) held that a bump stock is not a machine gun under federal law. Feature bans are entirely a matter of state law.

Federal baseline verified 2026-10-20. Scope: State laws restricting semi-automatic rifles, pistols, and shotguns by configuration features: threaded barrels, pistol grips, folding or telescoping stocks, flash suppressors, forward grips, and similar. Magazine capacity limits are tracked as a separate class.