Thank you all for your interest in getting the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District to comply with state preemption of firearm laws and stop preventing open carry in the library. Nevada Carry endorses the follow strategy and will utilize public pressure, the reporting of our blog, and existing Nevada organizations to pursue compliance.
First, we will be sending a letter to the district advising their actions are illegal and notifying them further violations will be illegal.
Second, we recommend that every resident of Clark County send a respectful email to the library district (administration@lvccld.org) asking them to abide by their own policy (which does not actually prohibit openly carried firearms) and also respect state law that prohibits them from making their own rules regarding firearms. A sample can be found below.
Third, we request that you attend the library board meeting at the Enterprise Library on 11/12/2015 at 6 PM.
Lastly, we encourage you to visit the library as normal. Reading and free exchange of ideas is one of the core foundations of America and as important to our liberty as the Second Amendment is. Support your library! However, if you do openly carry in the library, please be aware you may meet resistance from staff. Video or audio record the encounter. Be polite, be respectful. Ask for the exact rule or law that they are using to justify their ban. Ask for a copy of any written document you are shown. Once you have finished your business, leave and please contact us at
nevadacarry@gmail.com.
At this time, we are not planning a large protest or open carry ‘read in’, nor do we want to try and set up a ‘test case’ for lawsuit. We believe that public pressure can sway the library district into acknowledging that they must indeed follow the provisions of SB 175/240.
We welcome your comments on this page, the blog, and the website.
-Sample Letter-
Hello,
It has come to my attention that the library district employees are preventing the lawful open carry of firearms in the library. District policy actually only prohibits concealed firearms in accordance with NRS 202.3673, though staff members are exceeding their authority by telling those legally openly carrying firearms to leave the library. Administrators have also stated that firearms are not prohibited in the library, creating an unofficial practice in violation of law and at odds with official policy.
Openly carried firearms are indeed permitted in public buildings, such as public libraries.
Local authorities are prohibited by NRS 244.364 and NRS 268.418 (see Senate Bills 175/240, 2015 session) from making its own rules regarding the carry of firearms. The legislature has reserved the right to regulate firearms to itself. I respectfully request that the district instruct its staff to stop preventing those legally carrying firearms and remove Rule 3 from the district’s Rules of Conduct.
Thank you,