Fourteen years ago, Kansas voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment protecting the right to carry and bear arms in the state.
Now, lawmakers are planning to revisit the state constitutional right to carry guns with a new amendment that would expand those rights to protect ammunition as well as firearm accessories and components.
The amendment also sets out that any law regulating guns in Kansas would be subject to the heightened legal standard of strict scrutiny, meaning the government would have to demonstrate a compelling interest to adopt a regulation in a narrowly tailored way.
Next week, the House Federal . . .
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