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Sally Kern Packs Heat

The 21st century's Anita Bryant, Oklahoma pol Sally Kern was caught attempting to bring a gun into the state Capitol Building yesterday.
State Rep. Sally Kern says she's an "outdoors girl” who's done some shooting but didn't intend to bring her pistol into the state Capitol on Wednesday. Kern, who made national headlines earlier this year when she said the homosexual agenda is the biggest threat facing this country, said she was in a hurry and didn't realize she had her pistol in her purse.

She got no farther than the Capitol security station with her pistol Wednesday. "I was pulling up to park ... hurried out of my car.” Kern, an Oklahoma City Republican, said she is "out of the habit of being at the Capitol” since the Legislature adjourned in May. "I had a meeting at 10 a.m.,” she said. Kern put her purse on the conveyor belt to be X-rayed by security equipment. As it went through, one of the security people said, "Rep. Kern ... ,” and that was when she realized her pistol was in her purse, Kern said.
Capitol police determined that Kern's was not a "malicious act" and she was allowed to take her weapon out to her car. This was not the first time she took a gun onto the floor of the legislature. Last month she "self-reported" that she'd "accidentally" brought her gun to work and was allowed to take it to her car that time as well.

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