I've been a resident now for a little less than a year, prior to that I lived in las Vegas for 3 years and before that I was born and raised in Seattle. It's been quite a few years since I've owned a handgun, I had my wallet stolen which contained the rent of my roommates so I had to sell off my 2 pistols
Anyhow my question is how the laws of self defense are in Oregon as far as handguns are concerned. I know in Washington the use of a firearm even if legal and in self defense would land you in jail, in las Vegas however if used strictly as self defense and it wasn't obvious you were trying to blow someone's head off then you would most likely walk away without becoming a felon. I've been trying to piece together this information with no luck on the internet and I don't want to rely on hearsay from friends so any help here would be much appreciated.
An example would be, my wife and I are at the grocery store and as we are loading up our car 3 men start harassing us, talking aggressive and threatening. One of them starts forward to obviously assault me and I draw and simply fire a shot into his leg to back them off. I then call the police. Mind you this is just an example. Would I be risking assault with a deadly, or would this be a case of self defense? It's silly to me that each state provides its own laws like this, it should definitely be federal.
Anyhow my question is how the laws of self defense are in Oregon as far as handguns are concerned. I know in Washington the use of a firearm even if legal and in self defense would land you in jail, in las Vegas however if used strictly as self defense and it wasn't obvious you were trying to blow someone's head off then you would most likely walk away without becoming a felon. I've been trying to piece together this information with no luck on the internet and I don't want to rely on hearsay from friends so any help here would be much appreciated.
An example would be, my wife and I are at the grocery store and as we are loading up our car 3 men start harassing us, talking aggressive and threatening. One of them starts forward to obviously assault me and I draw and simply fire a shot into his leg to back them off. I then call the police. Mind you this is just an example. Would I be risking assault with a deadly, or would this be a case of self defense? It's silly to me that each state provides its own laws like this, it should definitely be federal.