Gun Culture in Oklahoma Is Changing

There’s a gun show coming back to Lawton later this month, and around here that barely raises an eyebrow. JT Wright Productions is setting up at the Comanche County Fairgrounds on the 21st and 22nd, which for a lot of folks just feels like another normal weekend event.

What’s interesting this year isn’t the show itself, it’s the bigger picture around it.

Oklahoma owns a lot of guns. A tremendous amount. Even more than Texas when you look at household percentages, which is surprising. Guns have always been part of daily life here, hunting, ranch work, home and self-defense, and just plain fun.

Those aspects haven't really changed, but the conversation around guns has.

Politics

It wasn't long ago, and for a very long time, one side of the political spectrum absolutely demanded that we all give up our guns for the greater good. Guns are evil, and acid attacks and stabbings are more humane means of victimization.

America didn't go for that. America will never go for that.

Fortunately, over the last couple of years, that sentiment of banning firearms has had a big swing in popularity. Now even the farthest lefty anti-gunners are seeing the light and arming themselves for the very purpose the Second Amendment was written. To fight any potential tyranny created by our own government.

It's a wild take and something I didn't have on my 2026 Bingo card, but yeah, the left is arming up. It's ironic since this is the same side that has been repeating the same main talking point for decades, that us regular citizens didn't need guns because we could never win a war against the US government... but that was never true either.

Vietnam and Afghanistan

Now that it seems all US citizens are seeing the light in these tumultuous times, we're probably entering a new golden age of expressing our individual liberties and freedoms. It's like the left has moved so far left, they're sneaking up on the right. Anti-American citizens being reborn as revolutionary patriots.

Wild times indeed.

It’s going to be fun to watch how 2026 turns out, and it'll likely start at your local gun show. These events might be the catalyst that finally finds a common ground between the rednecks and bluehairs.