Month: December 2016

Felony Marijuana Convictions and Expungement in Oregon

By: Leah Stein, Esq. Senior Expungement Attorney, Eastman Meyler, PC. It has been widely reported that Oregon has recently decriminalized the recreational use of marijuana.  What has gained much less media attention are changes to Oregon law that now permit many Oregonians with prior felony convictions to clean up their criminal records by setting aside …

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A Record Number of FBI Gun Background Checks Completed as Holiday Gun Sales Soar

Following the November election, gun sales in America are still at an all-time high. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Instant Background Check System (NICS) processed more background checks for gun transactions on Black Friday than on any single day since the system launched nearly twenty years ago. A total of 185,713 NICS searches were …

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