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Senate lawmakers approved a measure Tuesday allowing libraries to ban openly carried firearms.
Senate Bill 115 passed on a vote of 12-9, just six weeks after Sen. Moises Denis, D-Las Vegas, and Assemblywoman Shannon Bilbray-Axelrod, D-Las Vegas, co-sponsored the measure.
Denis and Bilbray-Axelrod credited their years as library trustees for inspiring the bill, which would extend the right to ban all firearms outright to libraries. Currently, only schools, colleges and day cares can regulate guns over and above state law, per Senate Bill 175 of 2015.
Denis said last month libraries are "extensions of the education establishment" and shouldn't receive different treatment when it comes to weapons policies.
Nevada Senate approves open carry library ban
