Late Tuesday night, Oklahoma’s House of Representatives passed a measure that would make it easier for teachers to have guns in the classroom.
House Bill 2588, authored by Rep. Sean Roberts, R-Hominy, would do away with a requirement of 240 hours of training for teachers armed in a classroom from Oklahoma’s Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training (CLEET). Instead, school boards would decide how much training an armed school employee would need to carry a firearm.
The bare minimum requirement would be a concealed carry permit, which takes eight hours of training.
Opponents and critics agree that if the bill becomes law it will likely lead to more guns in Oklahoma classrooms.
The measure passed 68 to 18 and now moves to the Senate, where a similar bill passed last year before it was derailed by COVID-19.
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