[Mulder]

Great news for gunowners in Oklahoma

[Ken522]

Why is legislation required to protect a person's freedom in this matter??

[Squantos]

HUA !

[Lexington Green]

"No person, property owner, tenant, employer, or business entity shall be permitted to establish any policy or rule that has the effect of prohibiting any person, except a convicted felon, from transporting and storing firearms in a locked vehicle on any property set aside for any vehicle."

...or we'll kill you.

An armed society is a polite society.

[Robert357]

Could you give us a bill number or a link to the specific piece of legislation as the article link is to the general legislative webpage that can go anywhere.

I am not sure how long that law is going to last and I would bet it is not as broad as your quote implies.

The work I do has taken me inside oil refineries, power plants, nuclear power plants, state prisons (corrections centers), DSHS non-voluntary comitment centers (aka mental health hospitals & juvinile detention schools), and other secured facilties.

As a RTKBA supporter, I can understand doing away with a Catch-22 that doesn't allow one to go to work and park one's car and then leave a firearm securly locked up if you are not allowed (assuming you have a CPL or CWP) to bring a firearm into the place.

On the otherhand, even the most low security of these kinds of places I go to require one to surrender any weapons for locked storage with their security forces. They would never stand for a firearm brought onto the property or even locked in a care on the property where someone might break into it.

Something doesen't sound right.

[BattleFlag]

" Because many employers have a "no guns" policy that infringes upon the Right of their employees to self-defense."

As does mine.

This policy in essence means, I must travel all the way to work, and all the way home (and whatever stops I wish to make in between) without the benefit of self protection.

We need a law like this in S.C. I believe.

Til then the "better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6" logic will be in effect.

[TomGuy]

The text of the bill





ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 2122 By: Ellis, Braddock, Adkins and Sweeden of the House

and

Shurden of the Senate






An Act relating to firearms; proscribing certain persons from prohibiting the transporting and storing of firearms in locked vehicles on certain property; amending 21 O.S. 2001, Section 1290.22, which relates to the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act; proscribing certain persons from prohibiting the transporting and storing of firearms in locked vehicles on certain property; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.




BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1289.7a of Title 21, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

No person, property owner, tenant, employer, or business entity shall be permitted to establish any policy or rule that has the effect of prohibiting any person, except a convicted felon, from transporting and storing firearms in a locked vehicle on any property set aside for any vehicle.

SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2001, Section 1290.22, is amended to read as follows:

Section 1290.22

BUSINESS OWNER’S RIGHTS

Nothing A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, nothing contained in any provision of the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act, Section 1290.1 et seq. of this title, shall be construed to limit, restrict or prohibit in any manner the existing rights of any person, property owner, tenant, employer, or business entity to control the possession of weapons on any property owned or controlled by the person or business entity.

B. No person, property owner, tenant, employer, or business entity shall be permitted to establish any policy or rule that has the effect of prohibiting any person, except a convicted felon, from transporting and storing firearms in a locked vehicle on any property set aside for any vehicle.

SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2004.
Passed the House of Representatives the 24th day of February, 2004.





Presiding Officer of the House of
Representatives


Passed the Senate the 25th day of March, 2004.





Presiding Officer of the Senate

[asgardshill]

A step in the right direction. But a business that gets leaned on too much by their insurance company for "allowing" employees to store firearms in their vehicles can simply terminate their gat-stashing employees and make up some bogus reason to tell the labor board (OK is a right-to-work state, isn't it?)

The real anti-gun companies won't be affected one whit by this - it'll simply give them an excuse to legally purge their payrolls of "gun nuts."

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I wonder of the employees of PSO (Public Service Company of Oklahoma), which is owned by AEP (American Electric Power), will be allowed to have firearms in their autos as AEP has a directive forbiding guns and knives on company property, even in autos.

[Shooter 2.5]

Too late and the wrong location to help the Apple employees. They were fired because they were showing off a gun in a parking lot which was rented by Apple.