Oklahoma Gun law gets its day in court
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:11 pm
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Gun law gets its day in court
By ROBERT BOCZKIEWICZ World Correspondent
11/20/2008
Last Modified: 11/20/2008 2:55 AM
DENVER — A lawyer who represents the National Rifle Association represented Oklahoma's governor and attorney general Wednesday in support of a controversial state gun-rights law.
The law requires employers to allow workers to have guns in locked vehicles where they work. It was struck down 13 months ago by U.S. District Judge Terence Kern in Tulsa.
In arguments Wednesday at the federal appeals court in Denver, lawyer Charles Cooper argued on behalf of Gov. Brad Henry and Attorney General Drew Edmondson that Kern was wrong.
Cooper said his Washington, D.C., law firm earlier this year also supported the state law in written arguments for the NRA as a "friend of the court."
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