Posted April 27, 2016 10:02 am by Comments

By Dean Weingarten

Dean Weingarten

By Dean Weingarten

PUMA Bowie 116396 Knife

Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)-
The restoration of the right to keep and carry weapons continues in Oklahoma. On 20 April, SB 1159 was sent to Governor Mary Fallin for consideration.

The infringement on the carry of weapons had been put into law not long after Oklahoma became a state in 1907, during the early “progressive” era. There are several sections listed in the 1921 Oklahoma Criminal Code, pages 523 to 525, published in 1921. The sections covering the carry of weapons are sections 1798 through 1806.

1798 is the state constitutional guarantee of right to keep and bear arms, which then perversely grants the legislature the power to regulate the carry of arms. 1799 forbids the carry of concealed weapons; 1800 forbids the carry of weapons at all, which seems to make 1799 redundant. Both statutes list several types of knives specifically.

1802 grants exception from the law to all public officials in the course of their duties, or while travelling from their homes to their place of duty, though it forbids them to do so while intoxicated. 1803 lists exceptions …Read the Rest

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