CCW coming to Kansas?

Senate passes concealed-gun bill
By DAVID KLEPPER
The Star’s Topeka correspondent

TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate approved a plan Thursday for concealed weapons permits by a margin that could prove to be crucial.

The Senate approved the bill on a 29-11 vote. If the House passes the bill and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius vetoes it, as she has indicated she might, a two-thirds vote of both chambers would be needed to override the veto.

But in an election year, guns make for fiery politics, and votes could change between now and then.

“The real question at this point in the process is whether or not there are (enough) votes to pass this bill over a veto,” said Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, a Topeka Democrat who voted in favor of the plan Thursday, but doubted whether it would survive a veto.


http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/13834817.htm

The senators who voted against CCW were Barbara Allen, Jean Schodorf, Pete Brungardt, John Vratil, Vicki Schmidt, Janis Lee, Greta Goodwin, Donald Betts, Marci Francisco, Wysong and one other. Please contact these legislators at, for example, allen@senate.state.ks.us and thank them for their vote. Please contact other senators like Steineger, Barone, Gilstrap, Hensley, Kelly and Haley to request that they support the Governor's probable veto, and switch to voting against this unsafe bill when it comes back.

Did you know that Tim McVeigh possessed a New York state concealed weapons license (what's wrong with Kansas? Hell, what's wrong with NY) when he committed mass murder in Oklahoma? In fact the Okla. highway patrol trooper who pulled him over saw a pistol in his car, and McVeigh tried to use his NY CCW license to justify possession. The trooper said something like "That's no good here" even though Okla had passed CCW, and arrested him. It wasn't any good because Okla did not reciprocate with other states, Thank God! S.B. 418 would permit reciprocity with the other 44 states that issue licenses, and with Alaska and Vermont where no licenses are even issued (every citizen has the right). This is not safe.

SB 418 also is unsafe because there is no provision for revoking such a license if convicted of being intoxicated while carrying a firearm, and there are no enhanced penalties for multiple convictions of carrying while drunk or stoned.

Contact your legislators in the House as well, where the bill is now headed.

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