Posted September 26, 2017 12:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Gun rights advocates in Charleston, WV won a bit of a battle with the city recently when a judge ruled that yes, those with a valid concealed carry permit could carry firearms into city-owned recreation centers, despite a city ordinance to the contrary. The ordinance was passed in 1993, but in 2014 the state passed a law that superseded the local ordinance so long as guns were “securely (stored) out of view.”

Charleston city officials then went back to court, arguing that the city had no way to provide a “secure” place to store a concealed weapon, and saying concealed weapons should remain banned from city recreation centers because they were used for school functions.

It remains illegal under state law to carry a gun, concealed or not, on school property.

In a 14-page ruling signed Sept. 21, Stuckey said concealed weapons were prohibited in any city-owned recreation center that is leased by a local school board, and where after-school programs or other school activities are held.

However, he said concealed weapons could not be banned from city-owned recreation centers that were not leased by a school board as long as the guns were kept concealed on the gun owner’s person or in …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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