Posted on 02/14/2011 4:26:08 AM PST by marktwain
In the state of Kansas, to carry a concealed firearm you need a gun — preferably something that fits nice under your jacket, in your pocket or perhaps in your purse.
You also need a license, the state’s seal of approval that you can hide a firearm on your person.
What’s less clear is whether you need eyesight. It certainly is suggested, unquestionably helpful. But following a change in state law, it is no longer clear whether it is required.
Kansas legislators during the last session approved a number of changes to the state’s concealed carry law. One of them was that people who are renewing their license no longer have to take any sort of test to prove they’re still proficient with a firearm.
The changes also removed language from the law that gave the attorney general the right to deny applicants a license if they “suffer from a physical infirmity which prevents the safe handling of a weapon.”
A spokesman for Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt — whose office oversees the concealed carry program — conceded this week that the office is uncertain whether it has the authority to deny a concealed carry license renewal for any physical reason, even if the applicant is blind.
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They're blind, not stupid.
coincidentally, I’m listening to my local police scanner this AM. A call goes out to check a home burglar alarm. The dispatcher says, “homeowner is visually impaired, armed, and can’t tell the difference between an officer and a civilian.” How’d you like to be the one answering that call?
Marksmanship training can take many forms.
BTTT
I'm really not being ugly but the frist thing that came to mind was the movie “Men In Tights” when Robin and his men were fighting in the palace and one of his men, who was blind, was fervently wielding his sword and fighting a wooden post which he was chipping away to nothing. (I promise, it was really funny, you just had to see it).
However, concealed carry does not just apply to firearms, at least in the state laws that I have seen. It applies to any weapon, which is otherwise legal, and which is illegal to conceal.
A large knife or taser might fit into that category and be very helpful.
If a blind person wants to have a gun for home defense, I'm fine with that, but I just hope the deaf meter reader is careful.
That being said, there are varying definitions of "legally blind", I believe.
I like to leave my guns in the care of my SUV. I get a two-fer that way. Sometimes I leave a pack of cigarettes in there too, to get a three-fer. :-)
I would make a point to drive up with my cop-car lights flashing, toot my cop-car siren from the driveway, and announce over my cop-car loudspeaker that this is the police, and we're checking the alarm. Yes, we'll wake up the neighbors, but it will ensure that nobody around has any doubt that the person coming up to the door is a cop.
Yup. My understanding was to keep manufacturing costs down, as in th early days, the ATMs were mostly walk-up. Why re-engineer something when you can simply re-use it?
Cute!! I am going to bet he has a squirrel in his sights.
Anyone denied a CCW based upon a handicap has a teriffic lawsuit. The Americans With Disabilities Act would come into play and I wouldn’t want to be the one telling a handicapped person they can’t exercise the same rights as normals.
old richard pryor movies, 'see no evil, hear no evil' where the blind bad guy would get a sound lock and shut off the lights when he wanted to shoot somebody in his office...
in the dark, blind is an *advantage*...
In particular, the blind fella in Columbus, Ohio who had animal rights wackos try to "free" his seeing-eye dog from its "cruel captivity." When the dog wouldn't run away on its own, sticking with the human it loved, they sprayed it with oven cleaner.
I do wish that fella had brought a handgun al;ong to that little party....
How exactly is the blind person supposed to be driving to get there? LOL
Carefully!
just spat my cup of tea over my keyboard, LOL
Check post 37!
Let’s all keep in mind that “Blind CCW” was just a straw-man argument regarding the cops no longer being able to deny a CCW application because they decided the applicant “suffers from a physical infirmity which prevents the safe handling of a weapon”, a vague criterion which could be arbitrarily abused.
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