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Committee introduces measure to clarify right to carry on publicly owned property leased to private groups
Summary
House State Affairs heard RS31959, a proposal from Rep. Dale Hawkins to amend Idaho law to bar prohibitions on carrying firearms on publicly owned property that is habitually open to the public even when leased to private entities; the committee voted to introduce the request, with one member recorded opposed.
Rep. Dale Hawkins, R-District 2, asked the House State Affairs Committee to introduce RS31959, a revising statute intended to clarify that people’s right to carry firearms on state-owned or political-subdivision property habitually open to the public will not be restricted solely because the property is leased, rented or provided by contract to a private person or organization.
“This legislation concerns the right to carry firearms on certain public property in the State of Idaho,” Hawkins said. He described the proposal as a “clean up” from a bill considered last year and said the language is intended to ensure that someone who regularly carries would not suddenly be prohibited from doing so because an…
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