Topeka to allow loaded guns in cars and trucks
Topeka residents soon will be allowed to carry loaded handguns in their vehicles.
The city council and Mayor Bill Bunten have voted to approve an ordinance that deletes a current ban on loaded handguns in vehicles.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/SMmYq2 ) that in exchange for that vote, the governing board will be asked in the near future to make it illegal to possess a firearm while committing more than a dozen specific misdemeanors.
Police Chief Ron Miller says the arrangement is an attempt to allow law-abiding people to carry loaded guns in their vehicles but ban gun possession by those who commit crimes.
Miller says a future proposal would make it illegal to possess a firearm while committing misdemeanors such as assault, battery, stalking and theft.
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