St. Louis Zoo Designates Itself an Amusement Park to Create Gun-Free Zone

By Dan Zimmerman

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…Texas ain’t all it’s cracked up to be gun-wise. Sure, it has the image as a virtual frontier days Dodge City where every pardner amblin’ down the sidewalk sports a six-shooter, but the Lone Star State’s gun control laws place it roughly in the middle of the Second Amendment rights freedom continuum. Or they did before the legislature passed open and campus carry bills in the last few days. Don’t get me wrong, I just moved from very gun-friendly St. Louis (open carry, no 30.06 signs, “gun-free zone” designations that carry no force of law) to Austin, so I’m happy to deal with the new (to me) restrictions. But imagine my surprise when I read in my home town paper that . . .

the St. Louis Zoo has gone to court to exclude all firearms — open carry and concealed — from its grounds.

Gun rights advocate Jeffry Smith says he won’t be packing heat as he originally planned when he heads to the St. Louis Zoo on Saturday. Smith, 56, of the Cincinnati area, says he believes the zoo has failed to prove its ban on guns and other …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns