I have a good friend who's a member of a festival board for a small town in Indiana and we had an interesting conversation the other day. He's being pressured by their insurance carrier to designate the festival area a gun free zone. Now I should mention that the festival area is on 100% public property, a city park and several streets. My understanding is that several area festivals are designated as gun free and are getting away with it because the city is leasing the property in use to the festival board and thus as a private organization the festival board can eject individuals in much they same way as they could on private property. Carrying the firearm isn't illegal, but they can charge you with trespass if you fail to leave when asked. That just seems wrong, is anyone aware of any challenges? After all why not simply "lease" all of downtown to the "City Managment Corp" and pay them to administer the city on behalf of the local government...then they could just do whatever they want all year long.
Is anyone aware of any challenges to the law or efforts in the legislature to remove this "gun free zone" loophole?
Is anyone aware of any challenges to the law or efforts in the legislature to remove this "gun free zone" loophole?