Shasta County Supervisor Patrick Jones helps a customer at his family's Redding gun store in 2021. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times)In defiance of California law, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors this week voted to allow concealed weapons in local government buildings. Those include restrictions on carrying concealed weapons in schools, courthouses, jails, airports, polling places and government buildings, the press office said. "You can't convince me [that] because someone has a concealed weapons permit that they are totally harmless." Jeff Gorder, a retired Shasta County public defender, asked if county department heads who have to discipline employees will now have to worry whether they are carrying guns.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 25, 2024 11:07 UTC