LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Despite metal detectors and armed guards at the Arkansas Capitol, a state lawmaker says he would feel safer if he was allowed to pack his own heat.
Republican Rep. Mickey Gates is proposing that lawmakers licensed to carry a concealed handgun be allowed to bring their weapons into the Arkansas Capitol and other publicly owned facilities. Prisons would be excluded.
Arkansas lawmakers aren't subject to a search when they enter the Capitol.
Security officials at the Oklahoma Capitol last year had grumbled about a growing trend among some lawmakers breezing through checkpoints and declining to submit to a required weapons screening.
In New Hampshire in January, a lawmaker dropped her loaded gun on the floor near some children. It didn't go off.
Republican Rep. Mickey Gates is proposing that lawmakers licensed to carry a concealed handgun be allowed to bring their weapons into the Arkansas Capitol and other publicly owned facilities. Prisons would be excluded.
Arkansas lawmakers aren't subject to a search when they enter the Capitol.
Security officials at the Oklahoma Capitol last year had grumbled about a growing trend among some lawmakers breezing through checkpoints and declining to submit to a required weapons screening.
In New Hampshire in January, a lawmaker dropped her loaded gun on the floor near some children. It didn't go off.
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