Update:
Ban Lifted!http://www.wave3.com/story/30320032/group-challenges-kfc-yum-center-gun-banGroup challenges KFC Yum! Center gun banThe Louisville Arena Authority is researching the issue, but authority Attorney Ed Glasscock said it may need the Attorney General's opinion.
State law prohibits city and county governments from trying to regulate fire arms. Part of the problem is figuring out how the KFC Yum! Center is legally defined since the state appointed the Arena Authority who runs the arena under former Governor Ernie Fletcher.
From Taylor Swift concerts to University of Louisville basketball games, Disney on Ice or NCAA events , the KFC Yum! Center has always been a gun free zone.
"I said that KRS 65.870 prohibits any public agency from prohibiting firearms," explained Kentucky Concealed Carry Coalition Vice President Stephen McBride.
He said he delivered that message at the Louisville Arena Authority's last board meeting.
"Their total gun ban in that building is a violation of that state law," McBride said.
The coalition maintains the Louisville Arena Authority is not a city government and is not allowed to pass ordinances to change the law.