A bill to declare Oklahoma a Second Amendment Sanctuary state will head to the Senate.
District 7 State Sen. Warren Hamilton, R-McCurtain, authored Senate Bill 631 as âstate preemption of federal infringement of Second Amendment rights.â The Senate's Committee on Public Safety approved with a 9-2 vote to move the bill forward.
If the Senate votes to approve, the bill would immediately become law.
Hamilton represents Pittsburg, Latimer and Haskell counties, and portions of Hughes and Okfuskee counties â all of which are among 31 of Oklahomaâs 77 counties to file Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions.
The bill calls the U.S. Constitution the supreme law of the land and emphasizes unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence, which is not a legally-binding document like the Constitution.