With no means of immediately identifying at a distance whether a person has a valid concealed carry permit (authorizing an open carry), anyone can open carry without being questioned. So how long before criminals become audacious enough to wear their firearms openly? From a legal standpoint, there are almost no circumstances where a private citizen […]
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Locked, loaded and legal
Jerome Ersland, before his life sentence for a shooting death Mark Hancock There are nearly 125,000 active concealed-weapons licenses in the state, 24,018 of which were approved last year. Gun legislation is ever-present. The most prominent such bill from the current session would allow people with a concealed weapon license to carry their guns openly. […]
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Citty under siege
Citty’s comments, reported Jan. 16 in The Oklahoman, were made in regard to an incident in August in which police believe an 18-year-old man pulled an AR-15 — a semiautomatic rifle commonly featuring a pistol-grip and capable of using high-capacity ammunition clips — and shot Oklahoma City police officer Katie Lawson several times during a […]