{"id":67503,"date":"2021-05-03T16:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=67503"},"modified":"2021-05-03T16:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:22:41","slug":"67503","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=67503","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fourstateshomepage.com\/news\/kansas-house-votes-to-override-veto-of-bill-allowing-18-year-olds-to-conceal-carry-now-heads-to-senate\/\">Kansas House votes to override veto of bill allowing 18-year-olds to conceal carry, now heads to Senate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOPEKA (KSNT) \u2013 The Kansas House voted to override Governor Laura Kelly\u2019s veto of a gun bill,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kslegislature.org\/li\/b2021_22\/measures\/hb2058\/\">HB 2058<\/a>\u00a0Monday morning. The proposal would allow 18 to 20-year-olds to conceal carry, which isn\u2019t currently allowed.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now heads to the Senate. It previously passed there 30 to 8, and is expected to have enough votes to pass.<\/p>\n<p>The bill needs two thirds vote of each chamber to override a governor\u2019s veto. It passed with the bare minimum in the House 84 to 39.<\/p>\n<p>The bill started off with allowing conceal carry reciprocity with other states, meaning that residents from other states can conceal carry in Kansas if they have a license.<\/p>\n<p>Where much of the controversy lies is allowing 18 to 20-year-olds to get a license in order to conceal carry. Currently anyone 21 years and older can conceal carry, and they don\u2019t need a license.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of the bill question why the governor struck it down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn her message indicated that she has always supported the second amendment, well, I find that hard to believe sometimes,\u201d said Abilene Representative John Barker, who carried the bill on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents argue that lowering the age to conceal carry is dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a bad bill. There\u2019s some good parts to the bill, the part that we had problems with on our side was the 20, 19, and 18-year-olds carrying firearms,. Even though they\u2019re trained, the maturity level of the brain lacks,\u201d said Kansas City Representative Louis Ruiz.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now heads to the Senate, where it needs at least 27 votes for the legislature to override it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas House votes to override veto of bill allowing 18-year-olds to conceal carry, now heads to Senate TOPEKA (KSNT) \u2013 The Kansas House voted to override Governor Laura Kelly\u2019s veto of a gun bill,\u00a0HB 2058\u00a0Monday morning. The proposal would allow 18 to 20-year-olds to conceal carry, which isn\u2019t currently allowed. The bill now heads to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=67503\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67504,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67503\/revisions\/67504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}