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5-73-324. Firearm rights shall not be infringed.
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5-73-324. Firearm rights shall not be infringed.
(a) A license to carry a concealed handgun issued under this subchapter shall not be denied, suspended, or revoked because a person was lawfully exercising his or her rights to carry a firearm under the United States Constitution, Amendment 2, the Arkansas Constitution, Article 2, § 5, or the Arkansas Code.
(b) The Division of Arkansas State Police shall not promulgate any rule and shall amend any existing rule that would result in a licensee having his or her license to carry a concealed handgun suspended or revoked solely because he or she possessed a handgun and the possession was not in violation of any criminal offense or § 5-73-306.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-73-324
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Source file: gov.ar.code.title.05.odt
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5-73-324. Firearm rights shall not be infringed.
(a) A license to carry a concealed handgun issued under this subchapter shall not be denied, suspended, or revoked because a person was lawfully exercising his or her rights to carry a firearm under the United States Constitution, Amendment 2, the Arkansas Constitution, Article 2, § 5, or the Arkansas Code.
(b) The Division of Arkansas State Police shall not promulgate any rule and shall amend any existing rule that would result in a licensee having his or her license to carry a concealed handgun suspended or revoked solely because he or she possessed a handgun and the possession was not in violation of any criminal offense or § 5-73-306.
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5-73-306. Prohibited places.
Except as permitted under § 5-73-322(g), a license to carry a concealed handgun issued under this subchapter does not authorize a person to carry a concealed handgun into:
(1) Any police station, sheriff's station, or Division of Arkansas State Police station;
(2) An Arkansas Highway Police Division of the Arkansas Department of Transportation facility;
(3)(A) A building of the Arkansas Department of Transportation or onto grounds adjacent to a building of the Arkansas Department of Transportation.
(B) However, subdivision (3)(A) of this section does not apply to:
(i) A rest area or weigh station of the Arkansas Department of Transportation; or
(ii) A publicly owned and maintained parking lot that is a publicly accessible parking lot if the licensee is carrying a concealed handgun in his or her motor vehicle or has left the concealed handgun in his or her locked and unattended motor vehicle in the publicly owned and maintained parking lot;
(4) Any part of a detention facility, prison, jail, or residential treatment facility owned or operated by the Division of Youth Services, including without limitation a parking lot owned, maintained, or otherwise controlled by:
(A) The Division of Correction;
(B) The Division of Community Correction; or
(C) A residential treatment facility owned or operated by the Division of Youth Services;
(5) Any courthouse, courthouse annex, or other building owned, leased, or regularly used by a county for conducting court proceedings or housing a county office unless:
(A) The licensee is:
(i) Employed by the county;
(ii) A countywide elected official;
(iii) A justice of the peace; or
(iv)(a) Employed by a governmental entity other than the county with an office or place of employment
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-73-306
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 5-73-306. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.