A bill that would prohibit the arming of domestic abusers is headed to the governor after receiving final approval in the Kansas House.
The Kansas House voted 113-6 to agree with Senate amendments to the legislation and send it to the governor.
Among other things, the bill would make gun possession illegal for someone who has been convicted of a misdemeanor for domestic violence within the last five years.
The same ban would apply to fugitives, undocumented immigrants and someone with a restraining order against them for threatening an intimate partner or their child.
The bill generated a little controversy over in the Senate when the bill was changed so that it would now be legal to possess throwing stars unless someone intends to use them unlawfully against another person.
Senators argued that under current law someone could get in trouble for carrying something fashioned out of metal that looks like a throwing star but isn’t.
The House concurred on the domestic-violence gun bill even as a conference committee tried to iron out differences with the Senate version.
There is still another gun-related bill pending in a House-Senate conference committee that would recognize concealed-carry permits from other states.
As passed in the House, that bill would have allowed 18-year-olds to carry concealed weapons and let colleges and universities prohibit anyone from carrying a concealed gun on campus without a permit.
The Senate stripped out the House amendments so the bill was more narrowly focused on recognizing out-of-state concealed gun permits. The House-Senate conference committee will be charged with working out those differences in that bill.
