Feb 18, 2017
The Daniel Boone Regional Library has changed its signs indicating an outright prohibition of guns after the lawyer for state Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch, R-Hallsville, sent the library board a letter telling it to change or remove the signs because state law doesn’t allow it to prohibit guns.
Reisch had a gun with her in her purse during a Feb. 2 legislative forum sponsored by the library and the League of Women Voters of Columbia-Boone County. She hadn’t notified the library but told one audience member about the gun, and another audience member overheard her on her cellphone mentioning the gun.
The library staff on Friday changed the signs to reflect library policy to read that guns are prohibited in the library unless authorized by law. It’s an administrative decision until the library board can get direction from its attorney, DBRL Director Melissa Carr said at Thursday’s meeting of the library’s Board of Trustees.
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