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Being part of the Southern United States and Western United States, Oklahoma is home to a strong gun culture, which is reflected in Oklahoma's gun laws. On May 15, 2012, Oklahoma State Senate Bill 1733 was signed into law by Governor Mary Fallin, which authorized open and concealed carry of handguns by permit holders. This law took effect ...
Gun laws in the United States regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition. State laws (and the laws of the District of Columbia and of the U.S. territories ) vary considerably, and are independent of existing federal firearms laws , although they are sometimes broader or more limited in scope than the federal laws.
In the 2022 decision New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen the Supreme Court went further, affirming a right to public carry of firearms and imposing a strict new standard of scrutiny on state-level firearms laws based on the text, history, and tradition of the second amendment.
Advocates say more laws controlling gun access are needed to save lives in a state that has seen over 70% of abusers kill their victims with a firearm. According to the most recent report from the ...
A new study shows states like Oklahoma with higher gun ownership rates and fewer violence prevention laws have higher gun suicide rates across the US.
After two deadly mass shootings in May 2022—the shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York and the Uvalde school shooting—the Democratic-majority House (on a near party-line vote) passed a package of gun-control bills, including a safe storage bill and bills to increase in the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles to 21, ban ...
As Oklahoma lawmakers have increased access to firearms over the past decade, firearm-caused suicides, accidents and homicides have increased. As Oklahoma's gun access expanded, deaths from ...
The Federal Gun-Free School Zones Act limits where an unlicensed person may carry; carry of a weapon, openly or concealed, within 1,000 feet (300 m) of a school zone is prohibited, with exceptions granted in the federal law to holders of valid state-issued weapons permits (state laws may reassert the illegality of school zone carry by license ...