Kansas constitutional carry bill

[Shanghai McCoy]

Or simply SB 45, passed the House and Senate and is on it's way to Governor Brownback for signing. Those of us here from Kansas might want to send a polite e-mail ,or other message, to the Governor encouraging him to approve the Bill. I don't believe it was passed with a veto proof margin...

 

[Ryanxia]

Good luck guys! I would certainly spread the word at your local gun shop and other areas of interest. I've even printed little cards and left them (with the owner's permission) at places like that so people can grab one and hopefully contact their representative.

 

[Midwest]

Good Luck to Kansas!
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[Red Wind]

Brownback is a moderate Republican. He could go either way. Good luck, Jayhawks.

 

[BSA1]

Thank you for the update. I lost track of it after it went to the full House.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

The KSRA website should have a link for anyone to use to contact the Governor. He has usually been pretty good on gun rights issues but he IS a politician...

 

[md2lgyk]

Amazing progress. When I was an LEO in KS (late 1990s) there was no concealed carry at all. Open carry was legal but many cities banned it.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

We moved up here from Oklahoma 15 years ago for my wife's job. I joked with her that she was moving us to a state with worse gun and liquor laws than the one we were in.
Happily both conditions have improved over the years.
Course, she lost the job after a few years but all's well anyway...

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

Or simply SB 45, passed the House and Senate and is on it's way to Governor Brownback for signing. Those of us here from Kansas might want to send a polite e-mail ,or other message, to the Governor encouraging him to approve the Bill. I don't believe it was passed with a veto proof margin...

I wish people would get out of the "veto proof margin" thinking.

There is no such critter, and West Virginia just proved that again.

The governor can veto a bill, period. Which requires the legislature to vote IF they choose to and IF they're still in session or IF they work to convene a special session.

If the governor vetos a bill at the end of a legislative session, then that bill stays veto'd until either a special session is called by the legislature OR the next session comes around and they choose to deal with it then.

And by the time the next session comes around, other priorities will be up for consideration as well, not to mention the results of all the elections which took place between the end of the previous session and the start of the next.

In the end, a bill is only "veto proof" once the legislature actually has a vote which overrides the governor's veto. And not before.

This is politics...watch carefully and see what happens here.

 

[steve4102]

Please, do not call it Constitutional Carry. Doing so will get you in trouble in court.