Kansas town says Kris Kobach can't use replica machine gun in parade

Organizers of a small-town Kansas parade have told Republican Kris Kobach that he must remove a replica machine gun from the back of a Jeep that’s become a key part of his campaign for governor and emblematic of his support for gun rights. But Kobach said that he believes the organizers can’t prevent him from using the Jeep with the gun in the parade scheduled for Saturday without violating his free speech rights.

He quickly made it a symbol of his defiance of liberal criticism and his support for gun-ownership rights protected by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and what Kobach derided as a “snowflake meltdown.”

Daniel Schowengerdt, attorney for the Iola parade’s organizing committee, said the organizers had no problem with the Jeep, which is decorated with U.S. flag designs and has a bobble-head of President Trump on its hood — only with the replica machine gun. He said that under past U.S. Supreme Court decisions, private parade organizers have a right to choose the content of their events.

“... a 50-caliber machine gun does not fit with their message,” Schowengerdt said of bringing farms and cities together.

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