Oklahoma lacks many basic gun safety protections, and in fact has weakened its gun laws in recent years. Lawmakers must take immediate action to reverse this deadly trend.
In 2018, state legislators failed their residents by expanding the state’s dangerous “stand your ground” law, making it easier for public conflicts to turn deadly. In 2022, Oklahoma had the thirteenth highest gun death rate among the states. In an average year, 772 people die from gun violence in the state. That means someone dies from gun violence every 11 hours. Sixty-six percent of those deaths are gun suicides, and 31% are gun homicides.
What Oklahoma Does Well
- Certain child access prevention laws
What Oklahoma Is Missing
- Universal background checks
- Gun owner licensing
- Extreme risk protection orders
- Most domestic violence gun laws
- Assault weapon restrictions
- Large capacity magazine ban
- Waiting periods
- Community violence intervention funding
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We’re in this together. To build a safer America—one where children and parents in every neighborhood can learn, play, work, and worship without fear of gun violence—we need you standing beside us in this fight.
