Oklahoma Joins the Growing Crowd

[MicroBalrog]

It's a lefty issue, and lefty == socialist, so sure.

On this rationale, *I* am still a socialist.

[wmenorr67]

There now is a bill being pushed forward to allow unconcealed carry without a license, similar to Arizona's law.  Wow what a happy day.

[zahc]

I'll never understand why anti-drug-prohibition is a 'lefty' position. Sometimes I think I'll never understand my species.

[Werewolf]

There now is a bill being pushed forward to allow unconcealed carry without a license, similar to Arizona's law.  Wow what a happy day.

HR 1414... Will allow open carry of a handgun in a holster on a belt or a scabbarded long gun. There is a thread about it at www.okshooters.com

I think it will pass.
Governor Henry will veto it. I don't believe enough democrats will cross over and vote to override his veto.
We will not get open carry in OK until Henry is gone.

[Werewolf]

I'll never understand why anti-drug-prohibition is a 'lefty' position. Sometimes I think I'll never understand my species.

Understanding our species?

That would be a really, really bad thing. Imagine what kind of control that would allow politicians to exercise, advertisers, priests, preachers and shamans to have.

No!

A true understanding of our species would not be a good thing at all. At least in the hands of the wrong people it would be bad.

[wmenorr67]

HR 1414... Will allow open carry of a handgun in a holster on a belt or a scabbarded long gun. There is a thread about it at www.okshooters.com

I think it will pass.
Governor Henry will veto it. I don't believe enough democrats will cross over and vote to override his veto.
We will not get open carry in OK until Henry is gone.

Might be able to get him to sign it.  Remember he wants to work with the house and senate and a lot of Dems in Oklahoma would be Reps in other states.

[freddd]

For those of you, like I was, disappointed that Texas is not on the list, there is one in the works, but contact your state rep and senators, early and often about it.  They do respond and mostly positively And let everyone else you know to do the same. 

I guess this advice could/should apply to any state, especially if you think your state has a chance of passing it, like mine.

[Werewolf]

Might be able to get him to sign it.  Remember he wants to work with the house and senate and a lot of Dems in Oklahoma would be Reps in other states.

One can only hope.

Trouble is HR 1414 (Open Carry) may never even come to a vote. Sue Tibbs - chair of the public safety committee where the bill gets reviewed - refuses to hold the necessary hearings on the bill even to release it from committee.

I've sent off an email to each and every member of that committee urging them to hammer her hard to do what's necessary to get it out of committee.

I think you can find a list of members at okshooters.com.  If not let me know and I'll send you their email addresses via private message.

[wmenorr67]

If you could that would be nice.

I can hammer them in the morning from work.

[Werewolf]

Update to original POST: Oklahoma's notice to the FEDS to knock it off passed overwhelmingly.

Some of you are now going <yawn> and thinking to yourselves, "so what! It's meaningless rhetoric from one body of lying corrupt politicians telling another body of lying corrupt politicians to stay the hell off their turf". True but it's a start and as a wise man 3000 years ago once said: "A journey of a 1000 miles begins with but a single step".

Oklahoma has taken that 1st step.

Oklahoma House passes sovereignty bill

NEW YORK – Oklahoma's House of Representatives is the first legislative body to pass a state sovereignty resolution this year under the terms of the Tenth Amendment.

The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed House Joint Resolution 1003 Feb. 18 by a wide margin, 83 to 13, resolving, "That the State of Oklahoma hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States."

The language of HJR 1003 further serves notice to the federal government "to cease and desist, effectively immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers."