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HB1768 • 2026

Game and Fish Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission; primitive firearm season; handguns; effective date.

Game and Fish Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission; primitive firearm season; handguns; effective date.

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Sponsor
Moore
Last action
2025-02-04
Official status
Second Reading referred to Rules
Effective date
Not listed

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Game and Fish Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission; primitive firearm season; handguns; effective date.

Game and Fish Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission; primitive firearm season; handguns; effective date.

What This Bill Does

  • Game and Fish Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission; primitive firearm season; handguns; effective date.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-02-04 House

    Second Reading referred to Rules

  2. 2025-02-03 House

    First Reading

  3. 2025-02-03 House

    Authored by Representative Moore

Official Summary Text

Game and Fish Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission; primitive firearm season; handguns; effective date.

Current Bill Text

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

HOUSE BILL 1768 By: Moore

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to game and fish; providing that the
Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission shall
prescribe by regulation the legal means of hunting
deer during primitive firearm season; requiring the
commission to include handguns chambered in a certain
caliber as legal means of taking during primitive
firearm season; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 3-316 of Title 29, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
Legal means of taking deer during primitive (muzzleloading)
firearms season for hunters who have purchased a primitive firearms
hunting license shall be prescribed by regulation by the Oklahoma
Wildlife Conservation Commission. The Commission shall include
modern, non-muzzleloading handguns chambered in .38 special +P
caliber or larger in this list of legal means of taking during
primitive (muzzleloading) firearms season.

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SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

60-1-10403 JL 01/06/25