Marion County judge kept ‘unsecured’ gun under desk in chambers

The embattled Marion County judge who directed a string of obscenities at his colleagues while intoxicated during an after-hours social event in April kept a loaded and unsecured handgun in his chambers, public records show.

On April 30, three days after Circuit Judge Channing Bennett’s explosive tirade, the Marion County trial court administrator notified the Oregon Judicial Department Marshal’s Office that “there was an unsecured firearm” attached to the underside of Bennett’s desk, according…