Considering moving to Oklahoma...

[BlayGlock]

Spot, you mean you voluntarily want to leave Texas?!?!?!

Good luck friend. I have buisness in Oklahoma, they are generally nice folk, and they seem to be as gun friendly as we are in Texas. Atleast the people I have worked with there.

 

[Buck Snort]

Just be advised. If you move to Oklahoma you'll be live'n amongt a WHOLE BUNCH of Okies!! (Which is, of course, the whole idea!)

 

[NavyLCDR]

Well, I'm glad you are happy but it doesn't seem so good to me! If somebody told you that you had to make a one time payment of $75 or so and you could enjoy those other things, wouldn't that be worth it? Just the three day wait for a handgun would make me wild and be well worth a little extra money one time. I typically buy 3-4 handguns a year and have for a long time.

And most real livestock ranchers carry some kind of loaded rifle in their trucks. Might just be a .22 or might be a Mini 14. I wouldn't _want_ to give that one up either but the three day wait is worse!

I've never lived in WA but my expectation is that it suffers from the same fate of some other states that have one super large metro area. A lot of really nice rural areas and real potential. But the politics are totally skewed for that large metro area. That's the way Missouri is with St. Louis and Kansas City. And Illinois with Chicago. In Oklahoma we have two large metro areas but they don't have the political clout to totally dominate the rural areas of the state. And since the politics of the two cities is somewhat dissimilar, they can't usually unite in their efforts anyway!

Gregg

I do have my $55 CPL. I also have a Washington State ID card in addition to my Wyoming driver's license, so I can just walk into the gun store, show my Washington ID and CPL and walk out with a handgun. What I like about WA and states like WA, though, is that there is no license at all required for a person to carry a handgun for self defense, so long as it is open carried. OK and TX do not have the option. If you are going to carry a handgun for self defense in public, it must be concealed and in order to conceal it, you must have a license, which can cost upwards of $200 with training costs counted in. That just seems to me like the right to keep and bear arms in both OK and TX is no longer a right, it is a privilige one must pay for.

 

[tulsamal]

You have a great state and I'm envious of the wonderful open spaces and hunting.
One of my ex co-workers goes back home to Pawhuska every fall and always gets his big deer.He then proceeds to send my the pics of the brute,sending me into a fit of jealousy!

Thank you for the kind words.

I always get several deer each year. And they usually hit the ground somewhere between 100 and 300 yards from my back door! (Can't actually see my house from my tree stand but you can hear every bark and gate clang.)

Gregg