KUNC Story Spotlights Capitol Access, Concealed Carry

Posted: Feb. 26, 2018

Colorado’s Capitol, like 28 other statehouses across the country, has security checkpoints at public entrances. There are metal detectors that visitors and lobbyists must pass through under the watchful eyes of State Patrol officers, who are there to protect everyone in the building and keep illegal guns and other weapons out. But for some, the security is too much, according to KUNC.

“It’s easier to get on an airplane than it is to get into the people’s Capitol,” longtime lobbyist Mike Beasley, who often has to empty the contents of his pockets to go through security because he leaves and returns several times a day, told the news outlet.

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