PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Friday marks a big change for the letter of the law in Oregon as 51 new state laws go into effect.

The measures were passed by lawmakers in the regular session earlier this year.

Starting Friday, Oregon is banning rapid-fire gun devices like bump stocks that can be used to make semi-automatic weapons function as if they were automatic.

This surprises some people who thought bump stocks were banned by federal law. They were, but last year the Supreme Court overturned the ban.

However, Lewis and Clark Law School professor Tung Yin said the reversal was not related to the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms.

In addition, oral nicotine users will pay a new tax. That money will go to wildfire risk reduction programs, as lawmakers do not have to tie a tax to

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