OK ID no longer suitable for getting on planes or into federal buildings...

[71buickfreak]

http://www.news9.com/story/26549199...e-will-no-longer-be-accepted-in-certain-areas




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Beginning in 2015, you won't be able to use your Oklahoma Driver’s license as an ID to get through security at federal buildings. And in 2016 you won't be able to use it at the airport either.
OKLAHOMA CITY - If you rely on your Oklahoma Driver's license to get into a secure area like a federal building or an airplane, things will be changing. Oklahoma is one of a handful of states that hasn't complied with a federal mandate to make our driver's licenses more secure.

Beginning in 2015, you won't be able to use your Oklahoma Driver's license as an ID to get through security at federal buildings. And in 2016 you won't be able to use it at the airport either.

“You would be required to have a driver's license and a passport or some other federal ID to actually go through the TSA checkpoint or fly on a commercial aircraft,” explained Karen Carney, spokeswoman with the Will Rogers World Airport.

That's because back in 2005, Congress passed the REAL ID Act that would make it harder for terrorists to get fake ID's. But in 2007, Oklahoma passed a law forbidding compliance with the act.

On Tuesday the Department of Public Safety says because of that law it "is not taking steps to ensure compliance with the federal REAL ID Act, and has not implemented any policy or practice for the purpose of meeting any of the act's requirements."

Those opposed to REAL ID say they are concerned about privacy issues, a federal ID system and an unfunded federal mandate. DPS says many measures discussed in the REAL ID Act are industry best practices that the department may have implemented independent to the act.

 

[Spata]

If I get picked for federal jury duty how does that work? The judge going to hold me in contempt because I won't comply?

 

[BadgeBunny]

Boy, that's a PITA ... Glad I don't have to do filings and hearings at the Fed. Bldg any more ...

 

[71buickfreak]

States rights trump this BS. This should go to the supreme court and be overturned. The fed can't pass a law that infringes on state laws without a constitutional amendment. This is an end run to establishing a federal ID system, which will serve to further erode states rights as well as serve as a way to grant illegals amnesty without actually granting them amnesty.

 

[Wheel Gun]

Here's some good reading material:

http://www.realnightmare.org/

http://www.realnightmare.org/states/62/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/22/stateline-real-id/4772785/

What could go wrong with a de facto National ID Card that's in a big federal database and shared with others? Sounds like a good plan.

 

[Arin Morris]

Hmmm... I wonder if this would affect NICS calls to clear 4473 forms.

 

[Jwryan84]

My understanding is the concealed license would suffice, I hope

 

[TedKennedy]

States rights trump this BS. This should go to the supreme court and be overturned. The fed can't pass a law that infringes on state laws without a constitutional amendment. This is an end run to establishing a federal ID system, which will serve to further erode states rights as well as serve as a way to grant illegals amnesty without actually granting them amnesty.

States rights were nullified in 1865.
I agree with your feelings about the matter, but really they gonna do what they gonna do.

 

[Surveyor1653]

Hmmm... I wonder if this would affect NICS calls to clear 4473 forms.

If it was a question of not being able to confirm your identity using the ID supplied, would one get a "Denied" or a "Further Review"?

 

[71buickfreak]

States rights were nullified in 1865.
QUOTE]

That is not true, not even close. The constitution is still in effect, and it states clearly that unless a law is specifically lined out in the constitution through an amendment, then state law takes precedent. It doesn't always work out that way, but that is gist of it.

Just like a state can pass a law barring the institution of obamacare in that state, the states do not have to adhere to the real id act. The fed, however, does not have the authority to bar citizens from getting on airplanes because they don't like the way the state issues their ID. Without a federalized ID system, they can't bar it, period. This was a knee-jerk reaction to 911, and yet again is proving how the terrorists won that day.