KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A new gun law in Kansas will go into effect Tuesday that will let owners openly carry guns in public.

It will be legal to openly carry a gun in a holster, in your hand or a rifle on a sling.

Captain Rance Quinn with the Kansas City Kansas Police Department says the sight of a gun is scary for a lot of people. Police said they will still respond to calls about people with guns, but the way they handle it will be much different.

“They may make a consensual interaction with the person, ‘Like hey, how are you doing today. I see that you are exercising your right to bear firearms. Is there anything I can do for you today?’ Or something along those lines,” said Capt. Quinn.

The state already has roughly 90,000 gun owners with permits to carry concealed firearms.

The new law also gives private businesses the right to prohibit guns in their buildings.

Of course, private businesses has always had the right to prohibit guns on their premises. Whoever wrote this piece certainly was not familiar with eprior Kansas law nor with this new one when it took effect. Still, the comments, for the most part, are positive.

One commenter tried to used the hackneyed argument the cops will spend all their time checking the legal carrying of weapons instead of chasing criminals. I wonder if the commenter stopped to think that those calls would most likely be placed by people like himself who panics every time a weapon is glimpsed.

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The fiasco known as the Mississippi primary continues with more and more allegations of vote fraud and vote buying emerging against Thad Cochran. An initial investigation in one county after the election found at least 1,000 fraudulent votes for Cochran. That discovery is just the beginning. McDaniel supporters are calling for him to run as an independent in the general election.

BREAKING: New Allegations Point to Cochran Campaign in Mississippi Senate Vote Buying Scandal

By: Aaron Gardner (Diary)  |  June 30th, 2014 at 09:15 PM

An audio interview has surfaced in which the interviewee claims that he was to be paid by the Cochran camp to grease voters in the Mississippi GOP Senate runoff election. The audio interview, which coincides with a separate audio recording and batch of evidence produced by the newly launched GotNews.com, a project by Charles C. Johnson, alleges that the Cochran campaign conspired with a Mississippi Reverend to buy the votes of African American voters, who happen to be democrats.

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Reverend Fielder has claimed to have evidence that would prove illegal activity took place in the Mississippi GOP Senate run off election. Furthermore, the evidence he claims he has would implicate the Barbour machine and a staffer to Cochran’s Senate campaign. The motivations of the Reverend are not those of a saint. As is made clear throughout the interview and in the transcript, this Reverend is looking to get paid to provide information, just as he sought to get paid to deliver votes by illegal means. Reverend Fielder claims that Cochran’s people were supposed to pay him approximately $15,000 for his efforts, but failed to do so after the incumbent Senator had achieved victory in the run off.

With all of that said, if the evidence is produced and validated, I don’t know how much longer Thad Cochran will be a Senator.

Even if Cochran isn’t deposed because of these illegal tactics, that does not mean the McDaniel supporters will automatically vote for the GOP candidate. More likely what will happen, if Cochran’s name still appears on the general ballot, they will just skip over the field and either place no vote for Senator, or choose someone else.

The tactics the RNC used in the primary, with the able assistance of Karl Rove and Haley Barbour, has tainted not only Thad Cochran, but the entire Republican party within the state. Mississippi was once a GOP stronghold. No longer, and any assumptions of automatic wins for any GOP candidate have just evaporated.