Nevada library gun ban vote scheduled Thursday

By Christen Smith

A panel of Nevada lawmakers could vote on a bill banning guns in libraries Thursday.
A legislative agenda shows the Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled Senate Bill 115 for a work session, just two weeks after a heated vetting that left some Republicans questioning the necessity of the proposal.
“I’m not quite sure this bill is needed,” Sen. Donald Gustavson, R-Sparks, said during a Feb. 28 hearing. “As far as I know there’s no evidence to suggest open carry or concealed carry pose any danger. I’d just hate to create another gun free zone.”
The proposal, a joint effort co-sponsored by Clark County Democrats Sen. Moises Denis and Assemblywoman Shannon Bilbray-Axelrod, would authorize libraries to preempt state law and ban weapons outright — an exemption so far only given to schools, colleges and daycares.
Denis and Bilbray-Axelrod served as library trustees before becoming state lawmakers and both agreed libraries function as “extensions of the education establishment.”
“I brought it because I felt they were left off the original bill two years ago,” Denis said. “This gives the library the opportunity to do whatever they want. They’ve been gun free for 100 years so to say now that it will change anything, I don’t see it.”
The “original

Source: Guns.com