Sally Kern Carries Heat into State Capitol, not Once, but Twice

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380 caliber semi automatic handgun

Sally Kern Carries Heat into
State Capitol, not Once,
but Twice

KOCO.com
Okla. Lawmaker Kern Stopped At Capitol With Gun
OHP: Never A Breach Of Security


complete at:  http://www.koco.com/news/16969470/detail.html


POSTED: 5:25 pm CDT July 23, 2008
UPDATED: 6:15 pm CDT July 23, 2008
 
 
 

OKLAHOMA CITY -- An Oklahoma lawmaker who made headlines in March for her comments regarding homosexuals was stopped from bringing a gun into the state Capitol on Wednesday, troopers said.

Rep. Sally Kern, R-Okla. City, never made it past checkpoint, an Oklahoma Highway Patrol spokesman said. The lawmaker was asked to return to her vehicle and secure the weapon, which she did. 

Kern told Eyewitness News 5 that she merely forgot to leave the weapon behind. She said she got out of her car quickly to catch up with a colleague. The weapon was in her purse, she said, and was detected via an X-ray machine. 

The incident Wednesday is the second time in two months that Kern has been stopped with a weapon at the Capitol. In early June, troopers said, Kern breached security and entered the Capitol with a weapon.

When Kern realized she had the gun, she said, she came down to make troopers aware that she had it. Troopers said there was never a breach of security, however, on Wednesday. 

Of the June incident, Kern said that her purse was being scanned by X-ray right as she dropped something. As the security attendant helped Kern with that, her purse made it through undetected. 

She stressed that in both cases it was merely a matter of forgetting that she had the weapon. 

Kern made headlines in March after statements she made bashing homosexuals were posted on YouTube. They were recorded during a public meeting and posted by the Washington, D.C.-based Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund. 

She told a political group that the gay agenda poses a bigger threat to the U.S. than terrorism and "is just destroying this nation," an OSBI spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Her comments netted possible death threats, which were investigated by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

Kern said had not received any death threats recently and reiterated that she had a concealed-weapon permit long before the March controversy.
 

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EXCERPT:  "I'm out of the habit of being at the Capitol, had a meeting at 10 a.m.," Kern said.

Kern has been a legislator for four years.  What does she mean by "being out of the habit"?


By John Greiner
Capitol Bureau
State Rep. Sally Kern was stopped from carrying a gun into the Capitol today in an incident that she and state troopers describe as an accidental oversight in her part.

complete at: http://newsok.com/article/3274005  


Not realizing she had her pistol, Kern started into the Capitol Wednesday, was turned back and allowed to put the weapon into her automobile, she confirmed.

Capt. Chris West of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said she was asked to secure her weapon outside when guards discovered that she had a weapon in her purse.

"I'm out of the habit of being at the Capitol, had a meeting at 10 a.m.," Kern said.

She put her purse on the security machine that X-rays purses and other bags of people coming into the Capitol. That's when the gun was discovered.

She has a permit to carry a concealed weapon, West said.

"We didn't feel like that was a malicious act," West said.