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Tweet New legal action surrounding Prairie Village’s open carry ban isn’t the only gun-related issue the Prairie Village city council needs to mull over. Though it applied for a guaranteed six month exemption from Kansas HB 2052, the city will have to develop a plan to respond to the new law by Jan. 1, 2014. [...]
Tweet They grilled hot dogs, drank soda, tossed a frisbee — and wore empty gun holsters on their hips. More than a dozen gun rights advocates associated with the Johnson County Open Carry group convened for a picnic at Harmon Park Sunday. And while the event resembled any typical summer gathering, attendees were blunt about its [...]
Tweet Speaking of guns… You may have heard that the state legislature stayed in session an extra 10 days — and in doing so spending an additional $400,000 in taxpayer funds — before it could fulfill one of its few mandatory functions: passing a budget. But among the matters the legislature did manage to find [...]
Tweet The group of gun rights advocates who asked the city of Prairie Village for permission to show up for a picnic at Harmon Park Sunday openly carrying weapons won’t come with guns swinging from their hips after all — but the permit application they filed in May is likely to become the subject of [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village resident has informed the city that a group called “Johnson County Open Carry” intends to hold an “open carry of holstered firearms picnic” at the Harmon Park Pavilion in June. The event would ostensibly test Prairie Village’s ban on openly carried firearms within the city limits — a ban that a [...]
Tweet The 14-year-old boy involved in the shooting of his cousin in a Mission chiropractor’s office this week has been charged with aggravated battery and as a juvenile in possession of a firearm, according to the Johnson County District Attorney’s office. He was still in custody in juvenile detention Thursday after the shooting which occurred [...]
Tweet Prairie Village city councilor Michael Kelly — who was a vocal proponent of the city’s decision to keep its open carry ban on the books despite the threat of legal action — called Wednesday’s dismissal of the case a “great victory” in a statement he provided to PVPost.com: This is a great victory for [...]
Tweet Johnson County District Judge David Hauber on Wednesday dismissed a case challenging Prairie Village’s rights to ban the open carry of guns. In his opinion, Hauber disputed the standing of plaintiffs Al Terwelp and Earl McIntosh, both of whom are affiliated with the state’s Libertarian Party. Hauber had dismissed the party itself as a [...]
Tweet A comprehensive piece of gun legislation was signed by the governor this week and now will have city governments figuring out what they will do about guns in city hall. All of the northeast Johnson County legislators voted against the conference committee report when it came to the Kansas House and Senate on the [...]
Tweet You may be wondering why, as a resident of Topeka, Earl McIntosh feels the need to lead the charge against city ordinances in Prairie Village and Leawood banning the open carry of concealed weapons. (If you do, you’re not alone: Judge David Hauber wonders, too…). So if you’d like a bit of insight into [...]
Tweet There has been a lot of talk in northeast Johnson County lately about gun laws at both the city and state levels. But there has been comparatively little talk about another major part of the gun debate: the effect of gun violence. Village Presbyterian Church is hoping to change that with a community event [...]
Tweet The Shawnee Mission Area Council this weekend sent out an action alert to members regarding two bill regarding the concealed carry of weapons in schools scheduled to be discussed at the Kansas Federal and State Affairs Conference Committee in Topeka this afternoon. The committee is expected to try to meld the two bills — HB [...]
Tweet SM East served as the subject of a lengthy piece on NPR’s Talk of the Nation Friday during which national education reporter Claudio Sanchez interviewed school resource officer Joel Porter and principal Karl Krawitz about the role of officers in schools and whether teachers and staff should have access to firearms. Porter said after [...]
Tweet Overland Park’s decision in September to lift its ban on openly carrying firearms has led to growth of a phenomenon that pro-gun groups cite as a threat to public safety: gun-free zones. A new Johnson County advocacy group called The Gun Violence Prevention Project has been making door-to-door visits to Overland Park businesses and [...]
Tweet Remember that li’l lawsuit the Libertarian Party of Kansas filed against the city of Prairie Village for its ban on openly carrying firearms in public? Well, if a group of state legislators have their way, the whole issue may end up being moot. The Kansas House’s Committee on Federal and State Affairs is considering [...]
Tweet Johnson County Sheriff Frank Denning last week posted an opinion piece on the Sheriff’s Department’s website in which he took a forceful stand against the gun control measures being debated at the national level. Echoing many of the sentiments of the National Rifle Association, Denning argues that the best means to prevent mass shootings [...]
Tweet Prairie Village on Wednesday received its official summons in the Libertarian Party of Kansas’s suit agains the city’s ban on openly carrying guns on public property. The city has 21 days to file a response, though the city would receive an automatic 14-day extension if necessary. In case you missed it, here’s our FAQ [...]
Tweet As promised, here’s a copy of the overview presentation Prairie Village Police Department Sgt. Byron Roberson gave last night regarding gun laws in the city:
Tweet Between the renewed debate over federal gun control and Prairie Village’s decision to defend its ban of openly carried firearms, PV city hall has been fielding a bevy of questions about what, exactly, is legal and illegal when it comes to firearms in the city. On Monday, Prairie Village police tried to answer them. [...]
Tweet Since the Kansas Libertarian Party filed suit against Prairie Village and Leawood last week challenging their bans on openly carrying loaded weapons on public property, we’ve gotten a number of emails about what the suit means, and how the court case will move forward. We’ll try to answer the most common questions below: Why [...]
Tweet Prairie Village officials today announced they will “vigorously defend” the city’s right to ban openly carrying loaded firearms on public property. The press release from city hall follows: Prairie Village will defend prohibition of Open Carry on Public Property PRAIRIE VILLAGE, KS.—On December 21, 2012, the Libertarian Party of Kansas, Al Terwelp, Party Chairman, [...]
Tweet The news late Friday that the Kansas Libertarian Party was moving forward with a legal challenge to Prairie Village and Leawood’s ban on openly carrying weapons within their city limits made the renewed debate over gun control following the Sandy Hook massacre a consequential one at the local level. To gauge local sentiment on [...]
Tweet The Kansas Libertarian Party on Friday — the same day the president observed a moment of silence marking a week after the Newtown, Conn., massacre and the NRA took blistering criticism for calls to bring armed guards to every school in the country — filed lawsuits against Leawood, Wyandotte County and Prairie Village over their bans [...]
Tweet Prairie Village city councilor Michael Kelly sent us the following commentary on the threatened lawsuit that would challenge Prairie Village’s ban on openly carrying firearms. Earl McIntosh of the Kansas Libertarian Party told PVPost.com this morning that the group planned on filing the suit “by the end of the day.” Lawyers, guns and money [...]
