"Statehouse gun ban won't apply to lawmakers"

INDIANAPOLIS - Ordinary citizens will have to check their guns at the Statehouse's entrances when metal detectors are installed in the building next year.

Lawmakers, however, will be allowed to take their guns with them inside.

Sen. Tom Wyss, R-Fort Wayne, who has been part of a group working to create new security rules, said the group decided to exempt lawmakers and judges to "minimize the people who might oppose what we were trying to do" and try to block the efforts. . . .

Thanks to Brock Barnes for sending this to me.