Posted on 01/25/2015 3:40:05 PM PST by marktwain
SB 45 allows those who may legally own a gun to carry it concealed, without a permit. The bill has 26 co-sponsors. Only 21 senate votes are needed for passage.
The bill changes a number of laws, but the primary effect is to reform the law by removing the requirement to have a concealed carry license in order to legally carry a handgun concealed. People in Kansas already have the right to carry handguns openly.
From the text of the bill(pdf):
(5) possession of a concealed handgun by an individual who isIf the law passes both the Senate and the House, as seems likely, the question will be, will Governor Brownback sign it. It seems likely as well. In 2013 Governor Brownback signed the Kansas law to stop state and local officials from enforcing Federal gun laws that infringe on second amendment rights. From the tenthamendmentcenter.com:licensed by the attorney general to carry a concealed handgun undernot
K.S.A. 2014 Supp. 75-7c01 et seq., and amendments thereto
prohibited from possessing a firearm under either federal or state law.
TOPEKA, KS (April 16, 2013) – Today, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed into law Senate Bill 102 (SB102), formerly HB2199 – the 2nd Amendment Protection Act. In the wake of increased federal interest in restricting the right to keep and bear arms, the new Kansas law is the most comprehensive nullification of such acts thus far.Much has to happen before SB 45 reaches Governor Brownback's desk.
The new law nullifies a wide range of federal attacks on the right to keep and bear arms in the State of Kansas. It states, in part:
Any act, law, treaty, order, rule or regulation of the government of the United States which violates the second amendment to the constitution of the United States is null, void and unenforceable in the state of Kansas
Hot damn!
We need this bill at a Federal level. We shouldn’t, but we do.
Let’s hope this sweeps into all the other states that don’t have it yet.
My lib friends here are freaking out. We’re all going to die. Although I’m retiring I’m a lawyer in Johnson County which means that I could live and breathe liberal politics if I cared enough. Recently got into a debate with some of them on Joni Ernst. The big attack now is that her (extended) family over two generations received close to half a million in farm subsidies so how can she claim she grew up poor. They claim that its Fauxa bantus who really grew up poor. So the left is trying to Palin Joni Ernst.
Yeah, the founders wrote “Constitutional Carry” into the Bill of Rights.
And to my knowledge, there hasn’t been an amendment repealing that.
My lib friends here are freaking out.
I was with my MIL in a candy store in Abilene. There was a man who frankly looked like a cowboy, and had a revolver on his hip.
She said “did you see that man with the gun?!”.
“yes, I did...”
“don’t you feel unsafe?”
“no, to the contrary, the store is much LESS LIKELY to be robbed with that guy shopping here”
As far as feeling safe, we went to a trivia night at my SIL’s church. We’ve been going for years but it has gradually deteriorated into a drunken excuse to wear underwear and pajamas. Very odd in the gym of a Catholic Church. Some of the questions were from movies no Catholic should go to. I was very angry but then the next day after a lot of prayer, I realized that I felt unsafe. I have promised to go next year but only because it would be the first year that my son can go.
You got that right about the libs freaking out. Check out the comments in this local news story from the uber liberal KAKE news:
You'd think liberals outnumber conservatives in Kansas on KAKE's comment sections but that's not true at all, actually it's the opposite here. After witnessing all the bias garbage from there and other local news outlets, about the last election, I believe all of it is planned to make it look like the liberal presence is bigger than it actually is. It's one reason I absolutely can't stand our local news outlets and I boycott their advertisers.
CGato
The funny part is that unlicensed cc will result in almost no news, at least as far as has happened in Arizona. CC carriers are so rarely in the news that they are almost invisible “as a group”. Yet while being all over the place.
The media love fools who dress like clowns and do annoying things in public, because “they are news”. But the vast majority of the time, cc holders are *boring*. And not only that, but the drop in crime, beyond one headline, is also boring.
If we keep this up, reporters will actually have to do work instead of copy press releases.
Pretty terrible wording when you consider teh list of prohibited persons
that the federal government foists on us via the GCA.
Hopefully coming soon to a state called Texas!
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