An assortment of rifles hangs in a gun shop last year in Salem. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)AP Photo/Andrew Selsky
Background checks for gun sales in Oregon remained high last year but did not top the state’s record year in 2020, according to a new state police report.
Oregon State Police last year conducted 338,330 background checks on prospective gun buyers, a drop from 2020, when the state recorded the most, 418,061. Yet last year’s number was still far greater than the background checks in each of the three previous years from 2017 through 2019, figures show.
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