This article suggests it was a deception designed to allow congressmen to say that they voted for this bill, all the while knowing that the process had been rigged to make sure it never really would make it into law:
http://www.soonerpolitics.org/editorial/the-perceived-plot-to-deny-gun-rights-to-oklahomans
I see. Thanks.
(well, I don’t carry .. but nobody has any right to try telling an American citizen s/he can’t)