Flores v. Las Vegas-Clark Cnty. Library Dist.
Nevada Supreme Court · No. 72462 · 432 P.3d 173
👎Unfavorable to gun rights
left the library district's firearm ban in place, holding state preemption does not reach library districts
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What the court held
Michelle Flores, who openly carried a holstered handgun into a branch of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, sought a declaration that Nevada's 2015 firearm preemption law, SB 175, barred the district from enforcing its policy prohibiting weapons on its premises. The Nevada Supreme Court affirmed summary judgment for the district, holding that SB 175's operative provisions bar only counties, cities, and towns from infringing the Legislature's domain over firearm regulation, and a consolidated library district is none of those, so its policy is not preempted. Flores abandoned her state constitutional arguments on appeal, and a dissent would have found preemption based on legislative history.
Summarized from the court's opinion.
What this case is about
Nevada state preemption of a library district's firearm ban
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Key Dates
- 2018-12-13 — Decided
Sources
- CourtListener — retrieved 2026-08-08
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