Nevada Senate approves open carry library ban

By Christen Smith

The North Las Vegas Library in City Hall on Oct.8, 2014 (Photo: Sam Morris/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Senate lawmakers approved a measure Tuesday allowing libraries to ban openly carried firearms.
Senate Bill 115 passed on a vote of 12-9, just six weeks after Sen. Moises Denis, D-Las Vegas, and Assemblywoman Shannon Bilbray-Axelrod, D-Las Vegas, co-sponsored the measure.
Denis and Bilbray-Axelrod credited their years as library trustees for inspiring the bill, which would extend the right to ban all firearms outright to libraries. Currently, only schools, colleges and day cares can regulate guns over and above state law, per Senate Bill 175 of 2015.
Denis said last month libraries are “extensions of the education establishment” and shouldn’t receive different treatment when it comes to weapons policies.
“This is a bill that came out of changes that were made two years ago as far as removing public libraries from being educational institutions,” Denis said of the proposal during session Tuesday. “I feel they need continue to be considered as such and brought this bill forward.”
Denis clarified during a work session last week the only thing SB 115 would change is the ability to openly carry firearms in libraries — and library boards could still adopt policies allowing for it.

Source: Guns.com