Oregon Revised Statutes

Or. Rev. Stat. § 166.320 (2026)

Setting springgun or setgun

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      166.320 Setting springgun or setgun. (1) Any person who places or sets any loaded springgun, setgun, or any gun, firearm or other device of any kind designed for containing or firing explosives, in any place where it may be fired, exploded or discharged by the contact of any person or animal with any string, wire, rod, stick, spring or other contrivance affixed to or connected with it, or with its trigger, commits a Class B misdemeanor.

      (2) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to any loaded springgun, setgun, firearm or other device placed for the purpose of destroying gophers, moles or other burrowing rodents, and does not prevent the use of a coyote getter by employees of county, state or federal governments engaged in cooperative predatory animal control work. [Amended by 2011 c.597 §164]

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 2009–2017 · leading case: State v. Cervantes, 223 P.3d 425 (Or. Ct. App. 2009).
State v. Cervantes, 223 P.3d 425 (Or. Ct. App. 2009). · cites it 2× “The Commission also referenced ORS 166.320, setting spring guns or set guns, as a statute it intended to repeal, however, that statute was not repealed.”
State v. Stark, 307 P.3d 418 (Or. 2013). “” The state is correct that ORS 166.320(3) includes the phrase “at the time of conviction”: It provides that a person “has been convicted of a felony if, at the time of conviction for an offense, that offense was a felony under the law of the jurisdiction in which it was…”
Harryman v. Fred Meyer, Inc., 412 P.3d 219 (Or. Ct. App. 2017). · cites it 2× “" * * * * * "(4) The defense established by this section is not available if the injury or death resulted from a springgun or other device described in ORS 166.320 and the plaintiff establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that the use of the springgun *221 or other device…”
Or. Rev. Stat. § 166.320(3): 1 case
State v. Stark, 307 P.3d 418 (Or. 2013). “” The state is correct that ORS 166.320(3) includes the phrase “at the time of conviction”: It provides that a person “has been convicted of a felony if, at the time of conviction for an offense, that offense was a felony under the law of the jurisdiction in which it was…”
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