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The priest who coughed up $3,000 in a charitable raffle so that the AR-15 would not get a chance to run free and “be used to kill kids in schools," has successfully turned the gun into a garden tool.

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The Oregon State Police has closed its case on an clergy member accused of illegally transferring a rifle he spent $3,000 of his church’s discretionary fund winning in a raffle with an aim to destroy it.

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At least one state lawmaker wants an Oregon clergy member prosecuted after he spent $3,000 of his church’s discretionary fund on raffle tickets for a gun he may have transferred illegally.

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A Portland area priest who coughed up $3,000 in a charitable raffle so that the AR-15 would not get a chance to run free and “be used to kill kids in schools" is now under investigation.

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According to the Oregon Government Ethics Commission, Everytown for Gun Safety spent over $750,000 to pass expanded background check laws in the state.

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A move to recall Democratic House Majority Leader Val Hoyle over issues to include passage of gun control legislation, halted this week as the lawmaker announced she was stepping down.

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Keeping her promise to gun control groups, Gov. Kate Brown (D) signed legislation Monday that makes the state the most recent to adopt expanded background checks to include most private gun sales.

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Oregon is set to become the eighth state that mandates Brady-style background checks on virtually all gun transfers as a bill that passed the state house Monday heads to the ready pen of Gov. Kate Brown.

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With gun control and gun rights groups each stumping for opposite outcomes, a measure to mandate expanding background checks for virtually all firearms transfers in set for its final review by Oregon lawmakers.

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According disclosures for the first quarter of 2015, a pair of gun control groups spent $129,346 lobbying in favor of increased regulation while a pair of gun rights groups spent just $27,071.

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A House committee listened to a marathon of speakers for and against a controversial proposal to expand background checks to nearly all gun transfers Wednesday.

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At least one state senator and two members of the house may have to fight for their seats due to a grass roots push by local voters to show them the door.

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