Oral arguments were heard in a Kentucky Supreme Court case about local gun laws.
That issue was whether or not a city can prevent people from carrying concealed weapons into an arena or other city properties.
In 2021, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the city of Pikeville.
The city prohibits concealed weapons inside Appalachian wireless arena.
The Kentucky Concealed Carry Coalition appealed the ruling.
The group argues the city overstepped its authority.
Meanwhile, the city argues the restriction is about safety.
The factual background is that at the time the city required their concert lessees or whatever you want to call them, to sign an agreement that they would prohibit those firearms from the arena.
So the Court of Appeals said the city can't do that, but the lessees can.
So at the end of the day, the lessees can say you're not allowed to have a gun on your person.
But the city actually went a step further and required the lessees to sign a contract that said they were going to require the visitors of their event to not have firearms on their person.
You know, for us, it's just about we want to make the facility as safe as we can for everyone.
You know, the city we it's not something we're getting money, any revenue anything is it's purely just a safety issue.
And when you think about these concert venues, whether it be rep arena or the young Center City Park, for them, London.
If if if people could, for example, open carry in those facilities, what if you had 50 or 100 people out of 6000 carrying an A-R?
Hopefully nothing would happen.
It's unclear when the Kentucky Supreme Court will issue a judgment in this case.