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Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. 2024 ‘Firearm Prohibitions in Oklahoma.’ Who Can Have a Gun. San Francisco, CA: Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. 28 March

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Prohibited Purchasers Generally in Oklahoma

Federal law prohibits certain persons from purchasing or possessing firearms, such as felons, certain domestic abusers, and certain people with a history of mental illness. Similarly, Oklahoma has adopted other classes of prohibited persons, and incorporated some of the federal prohibitions as state offenses.

Oklahoma prohibits knowingly transferring a firearm to:

- A convicted felon;
- An adjudicated delinquent;
- A person under the influence of alcohol or drugs; or
- Any person who is "mentally deficient," of "unsound mind," under adjudication of mental incompetency or otherwise mentally or emotionally unbalanced or disturbed.

A convicted felon may not have a handgun "imitation or homemade pistol, altered air or toy pistol, machine gun, sawed-off shotgun or rifle, or any other dangerous or deadly firearm."

Furthermore, a person being supervised by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, including a person on probation or parole, may not have a handgun, "shotgun or rifle, including any imitation or homemade pistol, altered air or toy pistol [or] shotgun or rifle."

Finally, any person previously adjudicated as a delinquent child or youthful offender for the commission of an offense which would have constituted a felony if committed by an adult may not have a handgun, "imitation or homemade pistol, altered air or toy pistol, machine gun, sawed-off shotgun or rifle, or any other dangerous or deadly firearm within ten… years after such adjudication."…

[Editor's note: The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence regularly updates its webpages with new data as US gun regulation evolves state by state. For the most up-to-date information on US gun laws, please refer to the Giffords URL below]

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