Kansas AG Kris Kobach Talks Fed 'Trap' & Reforming Firearm Rules

The unwritten but implied premise from local progressive reporters . . .

Criminals armed with illegal guns are just waiting for legal rules to change before committing even more violent crime . . .

The reality is that these rules really only apply to people committed to following the letter of the law when it comes to firearms . . . 

On the other hand . . . It's important to realize that law enforcement organizations are NOT an ally with most conservatives when it comes to gun control. It's a political reality that GOP voters don't like to talk about but remains constant.  

Here are the basics . . .   

Owning firearm suppressors or sawed-off shotguns is legal federally, but not in Kansas. Some state lawmakers are trying to change that, but their main challenge to passing legislation is law enforcement.

The charge of criminal use of weapons includes both silencers and short-barreled shotguns in Kansas law. A new bill would legalize those gun modifications.

Gun owners currently need to register those modifications with the federal government and until recently had to pay a tax.

Republican Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach told lawmakers Monday that the difference in federal and state law is a “trap.”

“I'm sure many people in this room have fired a gun with a suppressor on it in the state of Kansas,” Kobach said at a committee meeting, “not knowing that was a violation of Kansas criminal law.”

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

Kansas lawmakers want to legalize silencers and sawed-off shotguns