Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumOklahoma House Panel OKs Open Carry Without Permit, Training
Source: Associated Press
By TIM TALLEY, ASSOCIATED PRESS
OKLAHOMA CITY May 4, 2016, 3:42 PM ET
Oklahoma residents age 21 and up could openly carry guns without a license, training or background checks under legislation that a House committee gave preliminary approval to on Wednesday.
The House Conference Committee on Public Safety passed the bill, of which different versions have already been approved in both chambers, prompting the formation of the committees to resolve disagreements. Rep. Jeff Coody, R-Grandfield, said he needs the signatures of seven members of House or Senate conference committees before further action can be taken on the measure before the legislative session is scheduled to end May 27.
The bill, dubbed a "constitutional-carry" measure, would allow those without a felony conviction to openly carry firearms without a license, training or background checks. Those who wish to conceal a weapon would still be required to obtain a license.
The measure is similar to open-carry laws in effect in 30 other states, including Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas, according to OpenCarry.org, a pro-gun organization which supports the right to openly carry holstered handguns. Oklahoma is currently among 15 states that require a permit to openly carry handguns, the website said.
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Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)or when they visit judges, legislators and governors?
doc03
(36,700 posts)everyone has them.
CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)What is the difference what the law says.
Laws do not change the behavior of 'nut jobs.'
doc03
(36,700 posts)beevul
(12,194 posts)Murder is punishable already.
doc03
(36,700 posts)anywhere. So what a few of them kill 20 or so 6 year old children, well they were just exercising their 2nd amendment rights.
With out a good reason to deny them on an individual basis, what do you propose?
Nobody is stopping any place deemed "gun free" from taking measures to ensure that such a place actually BE gun free.
In fact, if you propose that places deemed to be gun free SHOULD take reasonable actions to ensure such a state, lots of people speak out against it, mostly those who hate guns.
Oh, and for someone who carries, you seem to have a poor understanding of whats allowed legally under amendment 2.
doc03
(36,700 posts)turn on the TV and see where a disturbed person goes into a school or mall and kills dozens of innocent people I hope one of
your family is not one of them.
beevul
(12,194 posts)doc03
(36,700 posts)We could have a good shoot-out there.
CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)Are you advocating violence and bloodshed?
Is that what your political opponents deserve?
Even if they are peaceful fellow citizens of this great nation?
Exercising a right to free assembly?
doc03
(36,700 posts)gun rights
CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)IMO no other section of this website is more tolerant of dissenting opinion than RKBA.
I have been spending substantial time (OK it's raining, my outdoor project is on hold) writing well thought out articles to spread positive information about gun rights, and the anti's can't come up with anything better than cheap shots.
OK, so they can cut and paste and put the quotes against a gray background. WOW, brilliant.
Take a look at some of my articles and develop a coherent argument why you do not agree with what is there.
Then we can have a real conversation.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172189947
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172191586
Puha Ekapi
(594 posts)...to frame a rational position and present it in a cogent manner is a bit of work. We see little of that from the anti- camp, sad to say.
CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)Oh, sorry, they were rubbing off on me for a minute there.
Puha Ekapi
(594 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)beevul
(12,194 posts)rational position...cogent...work
Guilty on all counts.
doc03
(36,700 posts)they have a fender bender I consider them nut jobs that shouldn't be carrying a gun around. I have a CCW myself but I don't need to have a gun on me every time I leave home. I also took a class and had a background check by the local sheriff.
The ones that have to have an open carry weapon, IMO they have a problem. There was a story in our paper a year or so ago listing the local counties and they all had numerous people turned down for the permit because of mental issues. The county I live in had over 100
that were denied but one county had zero. That county has a much larger population than ours so apparently nobody has any mental problems there, kind of scary to me.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)in this regard, I don't see this becoming a problem. It isn't a problem anywhere else, why would Oklahoma be an exception? Isn't it the liberal stance that mala prohibita should only exist if there is a demonstrated State interest and be discarded if it doesn't? That is how I define liberal. I doubt Oklahoma banned open carry for the best of liberal reasons. I suspect the ban, like Texas and Florida, banned open carry for less than civilized reasons.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)But we have crazies here