STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 54th Legislature (2013)

SENATE BILL 548	By:	Dahm

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to the right to bear arms; creating the 2nd Amendment Preservation Act; providing short title; declaring how a certain amendment reads and what it guarantees; specifying certain duty of the Legislature of this state; providing penalties for certain violations of the Act; providing for codification; and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1290.27 of Title 21, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "2nd Amendment Preservation Act."
B.  The Legislature of the State of Oklahoma declares that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms free from infringement; that federal acts, laws, orders, rules, regulations, bans, or registration requirements regarding firearms constitute an infringement on the individual right, are not authorized by the Constitution of the United States and violate its true meaning and intent as given by the founders and ratifiers, and are hereby declared to be invalid in the State of Oklahoma, shall not be recognized by this state, are specially rejected by this state, and shall be considered null and void and of no effect in this state.
C.  It shall be the duty of the Legislature of this state to adopt and enact any and all measures as may be necessary to prevent the enforcement of all federal acts, laws, orders, rules, regulations, bans or registration requirements regarding firearms within the limits of this state.
D.  Any official, agent, or employee of the United States government or any employee of a corporation providing services to the United States government that enforces or attempts to enforce an act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the government of the United States in violation of this act shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections not to exceed five (5) years, or by a fine not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
E.  Any public officer or employee of the State of Oklahoma or any political subdivision of the state, that enforces or attempts to enforce an act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the government of the United States in violation of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed two (2) years, or by a fine not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 2.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

54-1-1241	 LKS	1/16/2013 10:55:32 AM