Fine and dandy for them......does he feel the same way for the average citizen? Can a citizen carry on the Capitol campus? We have too many "privileged" groups that seem to have extra legal privilege extended to them. In Michigan it is legal to carry on the Capitol campus AND into the Capitol building. Any other states allow this?
Utah does. In fact, all State and local government buildings are open to legal carry with the following short list of exceptions:
1-Prisons and jails.
2-Secure mental hospitals.
3-The sterile area of the airport.
4-Any courtroom that is a secure area by providing security and gun storage. (Most or all State courts have refused to provide storage and so are not secure areas, but they enforce no gun policies under judicial power to hold you in contemp.)
5-The interior of any House of Worship that gives notice that guns are banned. (By default, private guns are permitted in churches.)
6-Schools (preschools, daycares, K-12, and colleges) require a permit to carry on campus or in the buildings. Under State law, any permit is good for colleges, any permit held by a person 21 or older is good for Preschools, daycares, and K-12. Under GFSZ law, only Utah permits are good for K-12 schools.
7-Colleges can set up temporary hearing rooms for disciplinary matters that are off limits to guns.
And of course federal law puts all buildings where federal employees do their business off limits.
Our State Capital is open to guns and doesn't even have metal detectors. County and city buildings are open to guns. DMV and other buildings are open to private guns. So too are bars, State liquor stores, etc.
Charles