Is it illegal????

[BowhuntnHoosier]

I have searched around and cannot find without a doubt whether it is legal to OC or even CC into voting polls locations in IN. Is there IN code on this. I am finding nothing. Thanks for your help.

 

[nakinate]

Tagged for interest. I can't legally carry in my polling place but that's because my kid's daycare is on the premises.

 

[BowhuntnHoosier]

My polling place is a church in Vigo county.

 

[Bigtanker]

This happened in South Bend a few years ago.

Man tests Indiana gun law at polling place

I think he was a veteran and sued. I'm not sure the outcome. I'll see if I can find it.

 

[SSGSAD]

IIRC, not in schools .....

 

[Bigtanker]

Voters may see more guns at polling places - Local News - Pharos-Tribune

Guy Relford took the case mentioned above.

 

[tomray3of4]

Are you trying to intimidate the Hitlary voters or something?

 

[BowhuntnHoosier]

I have been OCing my G20 since purchasing it and would like to know if I need to cover up. Or leave in truck.

 

[Cameramonkey]

I have been OCing my G20 since purchasing it and would like to know if I need to cover up. Or leave in truck.

Beware, MANY polling places are in churches with licensed schools.

If it were me and I found I was legally allowed, I'd cover it up. The last thing you want in this important election is to get hassled and not be allowed to vote because somebody in charge doesnt know you can. (see the Guy relford article reference as an example)

Better to cover up and place your liberty friendly vote, than to get shut out and have to sue later. We need your vote badly.

I CC and I even though I am 99% positive I can carry in my polling place, I choose not to. My vote is too important to lose over some ignorant liberal blue hair who doesnt understand the law. I can be unarmed for 5 minutes.

 

[bwframe]

My polling place is a church in Vigo county.

Church with a school or daycare?

What's the church's policy on firearms?

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I have searched around and cannot find without a doubt whether it is legal to OC or even CC into voting polls locations in IN. Is there IN code on this. I am finding nothing. Thanks for your help.

You are asking the wrong question and mixing in Southern law (Southern states get all itchy about being armed while voting, the ghost of Jim Crow).

Indiana cares not (but gun nuts obsess over) HOW one carries, but rather Indiana cares WHERE you carry.

As long as you are not voting on: school property, inside the secure area of an airport, a courthouse, hospital with secured wing, jail, casino/riverboat, inter alia, one may carry openly, concealed, semi-openly or semi-concealed.

Threshold question: does the church have a school or daycare?

 

[SteveM4A1]

You are asking the wrong question and mixing in Southern law (Southern states get all itchy about being armed while voting, the ghost of Jim Crow).

Indiana cares not (but gun nuts obsess over) HOW one carries, but rather Indiana cares WHERE you carry.

As long as you are not voting on: school property, inside the secure area of an airport, a courthouse, hospital with secured wing, jail, casino/riverboat, inter alia, one may carry openly, concealed, semi-openly or semi-concealed.

Threshold question: does the church have a school or daycare?

My courthouse has no metal detectors and no gunbuster signs. Still a no-go? I have always assumed so but cannot find it in the IC or IAC.

 

[BowhuntnHoosier]

I see no vehicles at the church during the week that bring me to believe they have a school or daycare at this location.

 

[nakinate]

Polling places in churches?!?! What about separation of church and state? It's in the constitution/declaration of independence/Gettysburg address!!!


Apply purple where needed.

 

[eldirector]

I've open carried at my polling place for several years now (since moving here). Small, local church. No licensed daycare/school.

Then again, I know some of the poll workers, and usually run into neighbors while there. Not a big deal.

Side note: churches with daycare are not necessarily schools. IC specifies "licensed daycare". The vast majority of church daycare are "unlicensed daycare ministries". The only "sure thing" is if they offer Kindergarten or above, which would meet the IC definition. </side note>

 

[nakinate]

I've open carried at my polling place for several years now (since moving here). Small, local church. No licensed daycare/school.

Then again, I know some of the poll workers, and usually run into neighbors while there. Not a big deal.

Side note: churches with daycare are not necessarily schools. IC specifies "licensed daycare". The vast majority of church daycare are "unlicensed daycare ministries". The only "sure thing" is if they offer Kindergarten or above, which would meet the IC definition. </side note>

So, you're saying I can carry at my kid's daycare if it is unlicensed?

 

[eldirector]

So, you're saying I can carry at my kid's daycare if it is unlicensed?

I have no idea.

Is your kid's daycare required to be licensed under IC 12-17.2 or IC 31-27?

 

[Fargo]

My courthouse has no metal detectors and no gunbuster signs. Still a no-go? I have always assumed so but cannot find it in the IC or IAC.

Check your county ordinances as well as make sure it isn't connected physically to the jail. Each courtroom may also have its rules posted. I'm sure Kirk will chime in I've I've missed one. There is an ordinance where I live so I've never really researched it.

 

[edporch]

I've carried concealed to vote on several occasions.
Never had any trouble.

 

[SteveM4A1]

Check your county ordinances as well as make sure it isn't connected physically to the jail. Each courtroom may also have its rules posted. I'm sure Kirk will chime in I've I've missed one. There is an ordinance where I live so I've never really researched it.

Definitely not connected to a jail. Honestly, a county ordinance violation does not concern me too much. I realize a judge can set his own rules, but is that for the entire courthouse or just the courtroom? The courtrooms do have a few signs on the doors, but I've never noticed anything about guns.