Idaho Legislature: Ask Legislators to VOTE YES on H0376 - Concealed weapons, public property (posted 03/08/25)

• Bill: legislature.idaho.gov/s…

• Contact Legislators: emailidaho.com

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“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” – US Constitution, Second Amendment

H0376 amends Idaho's existing concealed weapons law (18-3302), which previously allowed restrictions for private, commercial, or restricted-access events on public property.

H0376 supports both the letter and spirit of the US Constitution’s Second Amendment. It re-establishes the people's right to carry firearms on property owned by the state and its political subdivisions that is normally and habitually open to the public but is being leased, rented, or provided by contract to private people, organizations, or groups. On all such public property, there will be no prohibitions on the right to carry firearms apart from restrictions that may apply under other sections of Idaho Code.

H0376 strikes the following language:

(b) Any restriction on the carrying of concealed weapons pursuant to this subsection may only be invoked for public property owned by the state or its political subdivisions when the use of such property is for a private event by invitation only, for a commercial event that charges admission, or for any ether event with restricted access whether admissible is charged or not. For any such private event, commercial event, or other event, it must appear to a reasonable person that the general public does not have unrestricted access to the designated public property or any subset of such property, that is normally and habitually open to the public.

Reference:

• US Constitution, Second Amendment: constitution.congress.g…