Open Carry Bill Passes Senate

I caught a retweet by Peter J. Rudy from a Tulsa World reporter that the Senate was considering open carry. I was under the impression that all Senate open carry bills had been molested and disposed of in committees. I did a little checking through all of the Senate floor amendments from the last two weeks and came across one by Senator Steve Russell and Representative Leslie Osborn submitted on March 3rd.

It appears that SB129 passed with the floor substitute 36-8. However, it appears it passed with a stricken title, which means that it will still need to return to the Senate in the event that the House also passes the bill.

The language used in the bill as passed by the Senate is allows for unlicensed open carry of firearms by anyone 18 years of age or older.