Kansas GOP Takes Up Gun Bill Targeting Banks’ Muni Business

  • Bill sponsor says seeking to address ‘corporate gun control’
  • Proposed law would affect government entities in Kansas
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A Kansas bill would block governmental entities in the state from working with companies that have restrictive gun policies, adding to a wave of GOP legislation that’s targeted Wall Street’s public-finance business.

A group of Republican Kansas state senators put forward legislation last week that would bar companies from government contracts worth at least $100,000 unless they can certify in writing that they don’t “discriminate” against the firearms and ammunition industries.