Oklahoma liquor laws

[jerrywall]

I am not talking about allowing national chains to come in and run liquor stores. I would not be in favor of that. What I am referring to is if a store like Byron's wanted to open a second location they could do so. Right now, I believe liquor stores must be a sole proprietorship and they are only allowed a single location. I don't think liquor stores would be on board with allowing Wal-Mart to sell chilled beer and wine 7 days per week until 2AM each night without getting something in return to help them compete.

If I was in charge of this process, I would propose the following.

-Single-strength beer chilled in both liquor and grocery stores, 7 days per week between 10AM and 2AM
-Oklahoma wines in grocery stores. All other wines in liquor stores
-Accessories sold in liquor stores (bottle openers, etc)
-Allow liquor stores to have multiple locations but keep requirement for them to be locally-owned

I think this would be a fair compromise. Of course from a liberty perspective the Missouri model would be best, but I can't see everybody getting on board with that.

Yeah, I just threw in that qualifier. I'm not sure the legality of allowing multiple locations with liquor licenses yet limiting it to locally owned. No idea if that would hold up. So my If was a big IF.