(GunReports.com)–According to a Tulsa World story, Oklahoma could be headed for a showdown with the federal government over firearms regulation and the scope of interstate commerce.
The newspaper reported that a bill that passed the state Senate last week asserts exemption from federal regulation for guns and ammunition manufactured, sold and used in Oklahoma. It is similar to one adopted by Montana last year.
“Hopefully, it will do two things,” said the bill’s author, Sen. Randy Brogdon, R-Owasso. “It will help secure our Second Amendment rights and it will be a boon to economic development.”
Oklahoma has no civilian arms industry to speak of, but Brogdon said gun and ammo makers might move to the state if his bill is adopted. For Brogdon and others, though, the larger issue is the federal government’s role in controlling the manufacture and sale of firearms.
Brogdon, a Republican candidate for governor, says it should be zero. “I just don’t accept the idea that the federal government has any right to regulate firearms,” he said. “If we did not have the right to bear arms, we would have no country.” In theory, the proposed law would apply only to guns manufactured, sold and used in Oklahoma.
Except for a “Made in Oklahoma” stamp, though, the measure makes little attempt to enforce that provision, and Brogdon expects it will be routinely violated. “That’s the thing that goes to the heart of what I believe,” he said. “The law won’t need to be enforced. The idea that the federal government needs to be involved at all is baloney.”
Read more from this Tulsa World article at www.TulsaWorld.com.
