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Author Topic: Group challenges KFC Yum! Center gun ban  (Read 2819 times)

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Group challenges KFC Yum! Center gun ban
« on: October 21, 2015, 11:27:48 PM »
UpdateBan Lifted!


http://www.wave3.com/story/30320032/group-challenges-kfc-yum-center-gun-ban

Group challenges KFC Yum! Center gun ban

The 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.
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Re: Group challenges KFC Yum! Center gun ban - UPDATE Ban Lifted!
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2015, 09:24:13 AM »
They did it!  KC3 was successful in talking some sense into the Louisville Arena Authority.

Yum! Center eases total firearms ban

The Louisville Arena Authority ended its total ban on firearms and agreed Monday to give promoters and booking agents of events at the KFC Yum! Center the right to decide whether ticketed visitors can carry firearms into the downtown arena.

The policy is in line with the passage of a state law that prohibits public or quasi-public agencies from restricting weapons on persons entering the venues if they have a weapons permit. Most other Kentucky public agencies have in recent months adopted similar policies.

Arena spokeswoman Deanna Southerling said promoters who decide to ban weapons will have signs stating the restriction at stadium entrances. She said promoters are not considered public agents and are believed by the authority to be exempt from the state requirements that apply to public agencies.

University of Louisville Athletics Department spokesman Kenny Klein said Monday that UofL will continue to ban firearms in the arena during all UofL events. He noted that UofL has a policy of banning weapons at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium as well as on its Belknap Campus.