Stitt signs 'anti-red flag' gun bill - ensuring access to guns for dangerous people

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The bill from Sen. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, and Rep. Jay Steagall, R-Yukon, was one of the last measures Oklahoma’s Legislature advanced Friday before adjourning.

While similar bills cropped up in other state legislatures this year, Steagall said Oklahoma's measure is the nation’s first “anti-red flag” law.

Senate Bill 1081 prevents Oklahoma cities and towns from enacting policies that would allow a court or other entity to restrict gun access to people deemed to be an imminent danger.

Supporters of “red flag” laws say they reduce gun violence and suicides and can lessen the chances of mass shootings. Many of the states that have adopted such laws have done so in the wake of mass shootings. More than a dozen states have implemented "red flag" laws.

https://oklahoman.com/article/5662741/stitt-signs-anti-red-flag-gun-bill

Charlie Pierce:

It’s come to this: pure base politics. The thinnest camouflage—“health of the mother” on abortion, red flags for abusive spouses with guns—has been abandoned. Ask me for an explanation and all I can come up with is that they know their time is running out fast, and they’re trying to raise their freak flag as high as possible before it all comes apart. The president* has left them no other alternative. They’ve followed him into madness, and there’s nothing left but to find a home there.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a32630283/oklahoma-republicans-anti-red-flag-law/