Kansas City Mayor Q Answers Criticism Against Gun Crackdown

This week Mayor Q and council encountered a great deal of skepticism after passing municipal rules against gun tech that might or MIGHT NOT hold up in court. 

In the meantime, here's his defense of his power move . . .

Some have questioned why the City felt the need to put these ordinances on the books, but Mayor Quinton Lucas says they give the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department a new way to take guns off the street.

“What’s wrong with having that additional tool?” Lucas said. “What’s wrong with letting our officers say, ‘I’m going to write you a ticket for an ordinance violation, too, and in the meantime, I’m going to take your gun switch away so that you can’t walk the streets with a fully automatic weapon?’”

Kansas City is taking a local approach to combating gun violence. Instead of relying on state and federal laws, Mayor Lucas wants to give local law enforcement a new way to get ahold of those weapons.

From our perspective . . .

The response and arguments that we've heard against these efforts are simple: The municipal codes Mayor & Council passed this week are ALREADY ILLEGAL under federal law. And given that we all have limited resources and time, this effort seems geared toward garnering publicity rather than directing efforts toward more effective anti-crime strategies.

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

Kansas City adopts local approach to combat gun violence

Kansas City adopted two gun safety ordinances at a City Council meeting Thursday.