CrimDoc
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So here's a topic for discussion ... apparently the organizers of Muskegon's Summer Celebration have declared their venues "gun free":
http://www.summercelebration.com/festival-rules
Their justification seems to be that for the purposes of the festival, they've created a PFZ because the capacity of the venue is over 2,500.
What are your thoughts on the legality of this?
1) Can a city temporarily define a public park as an "entertainment venue" and thus turn it into a PFZ? Would this be covered by preemption?
2) Even if you assume that the answer to #1) is "yes" ... I assume that one could still legally Open Carry there with a CPL, correct? Could they get around this by saying it's temporarily become private property (i.e. rented out to festival organizers ... whomever they happen to be)?
So here's a topic for discussion ... apparently the organizers of Muskegon's Summer Celebration have declared their venues "gun free":
http://www.summercelebration.com/festival-rules
Their justification seems to be that for the purposes of the festival, they've created a PFZ because the capacity of the venue is over 2,500.
What are your thoughts on the legality of this?
1) Can a city temporarily define a public park as an "entertainment venue" and thus turn it into a PFZ? Would this be covered by preemption?
2) Even if you assume that the answer to #1) is "yes" ... I assume that one could still legally Open Carry there with a CPL, correct? Could they get around this by saying it's temporarily become private property (i.e. rented out to festival organizers ... whomever they happen to be)?