It's official. Your CCW is void at the Iowa State Fair.
We are waiting for a response from Iowa State Patrol Captain Gary Nieuwsma who announced the ban after some Craigslist comments made him or his bosses nervous. The question is: What is the statutory authority for voiding CCWs?
The situation is particularly silly in that the cops announced that there will be no metal detectors, just "no guns" signs. So Honest Abe will leave his piece locked in the trunk outside the gates. Thugeye will giggle and slip his Lorcin in his sock.
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I think I know what the captain's answer will be. Since shall-issue became law eight months ago, local officials have discovered a workaround. With the active encouragement of Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, they have banned CCW carry in many public places through a tortuous interpretation of the trespass laws.
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There is some history behind this nincompoopery. The forces of law and order are under intense pressure from the corn dog lobby to make sure everyone feels safe there on the gritty East Side.
A number of fights/assaults/mini-riots broke out last year just outside the fairgrounds. People at the scenes said aggressors tended to be non-white, the victims Caucasian, and one police officer reported the perps were crowing about "beat whitey night."
Before the official spin machine got going, the sergeant in charge of public relations for Des Moines police publicly quoted the street cop's "beat whitey" report. She lost her job. Since then the city, the county, and the state have spent gobbillions of dollars producing report after report saying, "Nope. Nothing racial here. Move along, folks." (I carefully add that we've also experienced something like "beat blackie nights" in these parts. There's slime at the bottom of both barrels.)
h/t Between Two Rivers
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