Laws & Rights
Tulsa Police Chief: Bad Cop, No Doughnut!

Doughnuts are for cops who read the Constitution they’re sworn to protect.
We have nothing but respect for the rank-and-file officers who put their lives on the line every day.
As astute readers, you’ve noticed that there’s something of a schism in law enforcement. On one level, you have the “thin blue line” of dedicated peacekeepers who put themselves in danger to protect us from malefactors. On another level, you have their leadership. Sometimes that leadership has been elected, sometimes not … but either way, the top layer of law enforcement is often beholden to people other than the populace they’re sworn to protect. This is how you wind up with stories like this Pennsylvania Sheriff, who’s been merrily violating the Bill of Rights in one of America’s most gun-friendly states. Or a Tulsa police chief, who’s currently pushing for waiting periods to purchase guns and banning modern sporting rifles. Today, Larry Keane from the National Shooting Sports Foundation has the infuriating details about this latest blue-bedecked blowhard. But before we turn it over to Larry, we’d just like to remind all of our readers what it looks like when law enforcement is treated as “the only ones qualified” to handle firearms.
Yeah, we’re just going to leave this right here.
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TULSA POLICE CHIEF COMMENTS HAVE BEN FRANKLIN ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE
Two short blocks away from the historic Independence Hall and revered Liberty Bell in downtown Philadelphia at the old Christ Church Burial Grounds, Ben Franklin is rolling in his grave.
Franklin authored the famous quote, โThose who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.โ
Tulsa Police Chief Wendall Franklin believesย the opposite. In an interview with NPR, Franklin deployed a โJust trust meโ gimmick to push for more gun control and uttered, โUltimately, Iโm a Second Amendment guyโฆBut Iโm okay giving up some of that freedom, right?โ
The problem, as Second Amendment advocates know all too well, is if you give a mouse a cookie, heโll want a glass of milk.
โJust Trust Meโ
Tulsa, Okla., is rated in theย Top 10ย of the nationโs mostย dangerous citiesย and has a local homicide rateย well aboveย the national average. Describing his conversations with Oklahoma state legislators about surging crime, Police Chief Wendall Franklin seemed defeated in trying to solve the problem of violence plaguing law-abiding and innocent Tulsa residents.
โItโs a topic thatโs not really brought up a whole lot and itโs something that gets glossed over quite a bit,โ heย said.ย โNo one really wants to talk about it.โ
When pressed about why heย previously was okayย with state legislators โ as the duly-elected representatives of the people โ working on firearm-related policy but now is pushing for gun control, the chief deployed a familiar gun control tactic. โTrust me,โ he said.
โUltimately, law enforcement, we are the experts. Weโre the subject matter experts at protecting America, right? Protecting our cities. We should be utilized in that manner,โ Chief Franklin explained. โAnything that we do, ultimately, we give up something to have that protection.โ
The โIโm a gun guyโ routine is repeatedly used by some of the most ardent gun control activists as a linguistic tool to dupe others into thinking more restrictions on law-abiding Americans are okay. President Joe Bidenย often says,ย โIโm a Second Amendment guy.โ Ryan Busse, a gun control activist employed by Giffords, uses theย schtick too.ย Heโs banking on deceiving enough Montanans that heโs still a โgun guyโ but supports just enough gun control to win the governorโs mansion from staunch Second Amendment advocate Gov. Greg Gianforte. Also in Montana, Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester touts his Second Amendment bona fides often. Yet joined with some of the worst gun control senators byย votingย to keep the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Final Rule in place that unconstitutionally usurps congressional power to rewrite through regulation the National Firearms Act to now define pistols with attached stabilizing arm braces as short-barreled rifles (SBRs), after having initially determined a decade ago they were not rifles.
Burden of Proof
Police Chief Franklinโs gun control dialogue was telling. It once again centered on law-abiding citizens giving up their rights, not criminals committing acts of violence being held to account. He added that it is his belief that law-abiding citizens who may feel threatened or have a completely lawful need to purchase a firearm may need to wait longer to bring their firearm home.
โIโm okay with waiting three days, five days, or whatever to get my firearm if I go out and purchase another firearm. So Iโm okay with a pause to allow for weapons to be purchased and allow the government and the gun companies to look at the background and do a thorough check before that gun goes to someone,โ he added. He was discussing his belief that there should be more restrictions on law-abiding Americans purchasing Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) and unfinished firearm components, a practice gunsmiths have been using since before the founding of the country.
โI think thatโs where we are today. We are going to have to give up some things. And I think there are some things that we can give up for a safer community,โ the chiefย concluded.
Law-abiding citizens who lawfully purchase legal firearms at retail already submit to an FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) verification before the transaction can be finalized. They must pass that background check to buy their firearm.
In case the chief was unaware, the overwhelming majority of firearm purchases are completed with little problem. According toย NICS data, in 2019, about 90 percent of the tens of millions NICS checks done annually were completed immediately, with just over 10 percent of NICS checks going into โdelayedโ status. And, about 90 percent of those delayed NICS checks are resolved within the three-business day window as required by the Brady Act and 94 percent are resolved within 10 days.
Only 0.7 percent of 2019 delayed NICS checks were never resolved and only a minuscule 0.01 percent of transferred firearms are referred to ATF for retrieval because the purchaser turned out to be a prohibited person.
Focus on Criminals
While law-abiding citizens continue to be the target of greater gun control pushes, itโs criminals who ignore the laws and do whatever it takes to break the laws in order to illegally obtain firearms.
Government surveys of prison inmatesย revealย what the firearm industry already knows โ criminals rarely obtain their firearms from retailers or even gun shows. In fact, over time, the share of criminalsโ firearms that come from retailers has dropped by 10 percentage points. More than 90 percent of criminals obtain their firearms through illicit means and illegally through the black market. Police Chief Franklinโs restrictions wouldnโt impact them at all.
Instead of using hollow โtrust meโ logic to push more gun control, Police Chief Franklin and those like him would do better focusing on criminals, not law-abiding Tulsa residents.
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