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Michigan Library to Allow Guns

...Not that they want to but the law is the law. From the Detroit News:

While Michigan's law does not allow anyone with a concealed weapon into schools, bars, sports stadiums and other facilities, it does not include such municipal facilities as libraries. So it's legal for anyone with a valid permit to carry a firearm in those facilities.

Now trustees must vote on changing the policy so it doesn't ban weapons, a move that Supervisor Carl Solden said he supports.

"I don't think that we can in all good conscience supersede state law," he said. "The CCW permits allow people to carry firearms and, frankly, I don't want to put the township in a position to have to defend a lawsuit based on that," Solden said. "Ferndale has already spent money doing that and lost."

In 2003, the Michigan Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from protesters fighting to keep guns out of Ferndale Public Library, thus upholding the Michigan Court of Appeals' decision that local governments can't include further restrictions to the law.

"We have to change things whether we agree with the law or not," he said.