Kansas NFA bill signed by governor
My sources tell me that Kansas is soon to be friendly to machine gunners.
Update: News source:
Starting July 1, Kansans will be able to own machine guns, other fully automatic weapons, sawed-off shotguns and silencers.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signed a bill Monday legalizing their possession.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Sounds like the bill basically says that Federal restrictions are enough, why duplicate – and vastly extend – them, or spend the money on such duplication.
Uh, “sawed-off shotguns?” After the [ridiculous] Miller ruling?
Meanwhile, in Australia, laser pointers are beimg targeted. Not entirely a terrible idea: last year some eedjut claimed he was just pointing out stars to his daughter, and it was sheer coincidence that he managed to focus on three passenger-jet cockpits. Alas, pols in Oz can e even sillier than ours – the proposed licensing/ban covers ALL laser pointers, so those company presenters and schoolteachers will have to go back to the old pointy stick.
http://www.smh.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2008/04/21/1208742851975.html
April 21st, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Bizarre. Not that it’s a big deal, but I didn’t picture Sebelius signing anything remotely pro-gun.
April 21st, 2008 at 7:24 pm
I was gonna say, after vetoing a CCW bill and having her veto thumped wholesale…who knows maybe she learned her lesson? Reelection coming soon? She has national aspirations, maybe she’s seeing what a pain being anti gun is for Barack Nobody Knows My Name Obama and Hillary.
April 21st, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Her term as governor isn’t up until 2010, but she isn’t eligible for reelection (2 term limit). She is probably looking for a national position. There have even been a number of rumors about being Obama’s VP.
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:26 am
I predict that ammo sales to the new squirt gun owners will skyrocket 😀
Now possibly moving to Kansas does not sound so bad 😀
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
According to the fine folks at http://www.ksccw.com she signed because both bills passed with margins large enough to be veto proof even if she did peel off a few votes.
So yeah, she (apparently) decided the symbolism of getting overridden [b]again[/b] outweighed the symbolism of ‘taking a stand against guns’.
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
(don’t you hate it when you see an error (forum style tags in this case) while waiting for your click of the ‘submit’ button to take effect?)
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
You could just highlight the text and hit the bold button.
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Yeah, but then I either have to interrupt my typing or remember what I wanted to highlight. When you do it right it’s faster & easier (for me) to just type the tags as I go.
Nice to have to buttons for less common things though.