Knife rights bill in Oklahoma

[Mitch Rapp]

Seems fairly simple, it doesn't look like it would do anything to allow daggers or auto knives, but would cancel out city ordinances, so at least it makes things a bit more simple.


http://www.kniferights.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=245&Itemid=1

 

[rawhide]

Oklahoma has some goofy knife laws. Protecting knives with preemption legislation like firearms seems like a good idea to me. According to OK2A.org daggers and autos are on the radar but probably not until next year.

HJR 1026 - proposed Constitutional Amendment carried over from last year, could also help because it has language including knives as arms that citizens have a right to carry.

 

[Jestik]

They need to legalize all knives. I don't know why I am cleared and certified to carry a handgun on my hip, but not an auto-knife in my pocket?

 

[caojyn]

Any update on this?

 

[vvvvvvv]

HB2477 - Authorizes the carrying of knives under certain conditions

HB3367 - Add knives to state preemption

 

[TallPrairie]

The knife preemption bill is a very good idea and deserves wide support.

Oklahoma doesn't have too many obnoxious municipal knife laws (compare Florida sometime, what a nightmare), but we have some. For example, Norman bans carrying knives with longer than 4" blades. Norman Mun. Code 15-504(a)(2). I know people whose EDC knife would get them snarled up by that law. There is also (IIRC) at least one town in the OKC metro that bans "offering for sale" any knife over 4" blade.

Those laws would become nullities once the knife preemption bill took effect.