Guv Parson To Kansas City Gun Control: Stay In Your Lane

This week's message from Jeff City is loud & clear . . .

GUV PARSON WARNS KANSAS CITY & STL TO BACK OFF MUNICIPAL GUN CRACKDOWN RULES!!!

Here's our cowtown part of the equation . . .

"Two gun ordinances are advancing in Kansas City. The first would ban those 18 and younger from buying bullets without parental consent. The second bans “switches,” which are used to modify handguns into automatic ones."

Now check a quote that clearly threatens a legal fight and worsening relations betwixt big cities and statewide elected officials . . .

“I think you have to be very careful to stay in your lanes. Cities can’t just go out there and do what they want to do, and when there is a constitutional issue to it, or state legislature do it, they can’t supersede that. Just like we can’t supersede the federal government,” said Gov. Parson. “Whether you like it or not, when the law is passed, you’ve got to obey the law, is the way I look at it, and there are no exceptions.”

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . . 

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Update and just as we predicted . . .

Lawsuit claims that letting Kansas City enact gun control would lead to spikes in murder and rape

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