House Majority Floor Leader, Rep. Jon Patterson (R-Lees Summit), told the Kansas City Star last Friday that House Republicans would no longer pursue bills to allow guns on public transit and inside churches and to exempt firearms and ammunition from sales taxes. The decision was made as a result of the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade, which killed one person and injured 23 others.
“While I do think both proposals are worthy of debate, they have no path to becoming law at this point,” Patterson said in a statement. “Now is not the appropriate time to be taking up those bills and therefore they will not be brought up this session.” Democrats on Monday held a news conference calling for tougher gun laws in the state, and announced that they would be introducing a proposed constitutiona