Nevada’s open carry library ban passes Senate committee

By Christen Smith

Sen. Moises Denis, D-Las Vegas, shares a laugh with colleagues during the first meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the second day of the Nevada legislative session on Feb. 7, 2017. (Photo: Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Nevada’s Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday allowing libraries to ban openly carried firearms.
The proposal, Senate Bill 115 — 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 bill” Denis referred to, SB 175, delineates the power of regulating firearms solely to the state Legislature.
Denis clarified Thursday the only thing the bill would change is the ability to openly carry firearms in libraries —

Source: Guns.com