Proposed library ban will pave way for campus carry, activist says

By Christen Smith

A gun rights blogger said Tuesday a proposal banning weapons outright in Nevada libraries will pave the way for a campus carry law.
G.C. Gates, editor of NevadaCarry.org, said Sen. Mo Denis, D-Las Vegas, “painted himself into a corner” when he sponsored Senate Bill 115, which would update existing law to allow libraries to ban guns, openly-carried and concealed. Current law only extends such authority to schools, colleges and daycares.
“If the bill were to hypothetically pass, while gun owners might have lost the battle, we will have won the war as Senator Denis has sown the seeds for us to win campus carry and further gun rights,” Gates wrote in a blog post Tuesday. “Let me be clear: every argument that applies for campus carry applies to libraries, given Sen. Denis’ assertion. If passed into law, SB 115 will be the foundation for how campus carry is passed in Nevada.”
Denis and bill co-sponsor Assemblywoman Shannon Bilbray-Axelrod, D-Las Vegas, served as library trustees before becoming state lawmakers and both agreed libraries function as “extensions of the education establishment.”
“I worry about open carry in areas where I bring my children,” Bilbray-Axelrod said last year while campaigning for her currently-held seat. “I’ve been going

Source: Guns.com