Carrying Guns @ Your Library

A court order that bars people from openly carrying a firearm onto Capital Area District (Lansing MI) Library property will stand until at least June.

Ingham County Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina on Tuesday broadened a Feb. 16 ruling to now keep anyone from openly toting firearms on the library’s grounds. Her previous restraining order had applied only to members of Michigan Open Carry or associated people.

“I wish I could say that you could all carry weapons wherever you wanted, but I can’t say that,” Aquilina said during a hearing attended by gun rights advocates and library officials. “I do believe the library can regulate whether weapons come in or don’t come in the library.”

Library officials requested an injunction to bar people from openly carrying firearms on the premises in February, after four incidents since December where people believed to be members of Michigan Open Carry brought firearms into the building. Lansing State Journal reports.