HB2643 (House Committee Substitute) would have affirmed that firearms manufactured, sold, and purchased in Oklahoma are not subject to federal law or regulation.
The House passed HB2643 on March 21, 2023, by a vote of 72 to 21. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because this bill would have prevented government entities from enforcing unconstitutional federal gun control edicts, helping to restore the rights of law-abiding citizens. The U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment expressly declares that to ensure the “security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Whenever the federal government assumes power to impose firearms restrictions in blatant violation of the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment, nullification of such acts by the States is the proper remedy.