New political firepower for the primary

(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers May 6, 2013)

Martin HawverU.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has handed Gov. Sam Brownback and many Kansas House Republicans what amounts to the political equivalent of a 30-round clip to use during their upcoming election campaigns.

That political firepower?

Holder’s letter, released last week, that basically told Brownback that the state’s Second Amendment Protection Act that Brownback signed into law and which prevents federal officials from seizing—or, even worse, registering—Kansas-made or Kansas-assembled guns that aren’t involved in a crime is unconstitutional.
Holder could be right. But politically, that doesn’t matter.