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Following the October 15, 2026, shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, gun-rights advocate Derek LeBlanc drafted proposed changes to state restrictions on firearms near schools. LeBlanc, who leads the Oregon Gun Owners Action League, said he wrote the text on October 16, the day after the shooting. He wants to repeal restrictions he believes could expose armed people who intervene in an attack to legal penalties, and add civil protections for such interveners. These are his policy proposals, not enacted law.

In an October 28 interview reported by TheGunMag, LeBlanc said Oregon's Legislative Council was still revising his language and that it was not final. The cited reporting does not establish that a legislator has formally filed or introduced his bill. Claims about the scale of defensive firearm use are debated and are not presented here as a settled annual count.

Other Oregon advocates have proposed different approaches to school safety. In an October 28 Oregon Public Broadcasting report, Alliance for a Safe Oregon executive director Amie Wexler discussed expanding mental-health support, reducing young people's access to firearms, adjusting school environments, and making more use of the state's extreme-risk protection orders. These are that organization's recommendations, not responses formally incorporated into LeBlanc's draft.