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New law expands Oklahoma self-defense law to businesses

November 8, 2011

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(GunReports.com) -- An expansion of the state’s “Make My Day” law now gives business owners and employees at businesses the right to use deadly force when there’s a fear of death.

Before HB 1439 went into effect Tuesday, state law allowed individuals to use deadly force against intruders in their homes. The new addition to the law states that an owner, manager of or employee of a business, with a reasonable fear of death or imminent death, would have the right to use deadly force if threatened.

When signing the bill into law in May, Gov. Mary Fallin said passage of the measure was a victory for law-abiding Oklahomans and gun owners and a defeat for the criminals who would threaten them.

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Gov. Fallin said it, and I say "Amen".

Right along with ya, david b. When Texas drafted and enacted its' version of the Castle Doctrine, it already contained the provisions that lethal force is appropriate as long as a person is in any location in which they have a right to be when they are attacked.

Ditto david b and ditto canovack. God Bless America and Our Troops Past Present and Future. Keeping to My Oath Locked Loaded and Keeping My Powder Dry. Get the US Out of the UN and The UN Out of the US


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