Voters to decide if New Carlisle city employees can carry firearms while conducting city business

Voters in New Carlisle will decide in November whether city employees and officials should be allowed to carry firearms while on the job.

The measure, which will appear on the ballot, asks citizens if the City Council should “pass legislation permitting City of New Carlisle employees and officials to carry firearms while conducting city business.”

As reported on News Center 7 at 5:00, the proposal was placed on the ballot following a 5-1 vote by the City Council earlier this year, but it also talked about still not allowing guns in the city’s administrative office building, where people pay utility bills.

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New Carlisle Mayor Bill Cook told News Center 7 in a phone interview early Friday evening that he is against this proposal…

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