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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown released her legislative agenda at her swearing in ceremony Monday asking lawmakers to close a series of "loopholes" in the state’s firearm laws.

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In support of her first run at election to her position, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has received a big donation from an anti-gun billionaire philanthropist.

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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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Among the measures enacted by the Governor include directing the state police to track and analyze gun transactions and urging Congress to ban "assault weapons" and enact no fly/no buy legislation.

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Former Oregon House Majority Leader Val Hoyle, who stepped down in the face of a recall election, received a huge influx of funds in her coffers for a run for Secretary of State.

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The secretary of state's office is currently verifying over 10,000 signatures for the recall of the author of Oregon's expanded background check law.

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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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