Payson Roundup

Tom_Garrett (Tom Garrett) says…

State lawmakers are moving to strip cities of any last vestiges of local regulation of guns.

On a voice vote Thursday, the Senate approved legislation to bar local governments from enacting any rules more prohibitive than state laws or carrying a greater penalty about who can carry a gun and where that person can go with a gun. SB1168 expands existing laws that already pre-empt some local rules to take in anything that a city might want to regulate, including storage, licensing and registration.

Any existing regulation that is in conflict would disappear if SB1168 becomes law.

Most immediately, the legislation would overturn rules some communities have about people bringing weapons into city parks.

It would not, by itself, kill regulations that universities and community colleges now have to keep weapons off their campuses. That's because a separate state statute specifically gives the governing boards of these institutions the power to regulate conduct, including the possession of weapons.

Tom_Garrett (Tom Garrett) says…

I'm happy to see that no one commented on this change in state law. I take it means that we are all in agreement on it.