So Festival has rolled no
weapons within the venue.
So two options here.
You can take it secured in your
vehicle or we can take you over
and refund your money to you.
There was a third option not mentioned
that day back in the summer of .
File a lawsuit.
Which is exactly what happened.
Boy, times have changed since 2/20/21,
haven't it? All right,
so that's exactly what happened.
A lawsuit was filed.
That happened when the man whose left
shoulder you saw in that POV vi,
then just a private citizen of Segal and
2nd Amendment concealed carry advocate,
now State Senator Scott Herndon,
when he was tonight access
to the festival at Sandpoint,
an 8 day music festival held in
Sandpoint's War Memorial Field n
the banks of the Ponderay River.
It's been there since 1983 in a4
minute video posted to YouTube.
Herndon spent 10 minutes.
Making his case to security
personnel to be allowed to bring
a gun into the festival,
even invoking race into the argument.
So is
it arbitrary and precious?
You can discuss that later.
If we were black, would you let
us into the Let me get the polie
officers they could deal with.
Go ahead and get a police offic.
That would be great. Thank you.
Maybe they can explain the law.
If we were
black, would you let us in?
The law would have to be
explained not by a police offic.
But by a judge. Because a month later,
the Bonner County commissioners and the
Bonner County sheriff chose the mysterious
and unmentioned Door #3 in this scenario,
suing the city of Sandpoint and
the music festival for violating
A person's right to carry a gun.
That lawsuit was thrown out, but then Mr.
Herndon and his friend Jeff Avey
and the Idaho Second Amendment
Alliance took their shot,
filing their civil lawsuit against the
city and the festival in May of last year.
By June of 2021,
a District Judge ruled in favor of the city,
saying the festival organizers,
they can set up any rules they wish since
they legally take control of that park,
something the mayor of Sandpoint
told us he saw coming.
You guys aren't even involved
in this because you leased this
property out for this
time being and they can make the rules.
That's right. I mean,
is that as simple as it gets?
That's as simple as it gets.
That's right. That seems like.
And I don't want to throw
out the word frivolous,
but it seems like that
would be kind of known,
like that would be one of those
things like if you run out of s,
you can kind of tell whomever yu
can't come in because of XY&amp;ZI agree.
I I think frivolous is the right word,
frankly.
Well, frivolous an adjective
having no sound basis.
So right about the time Mr.
Herndon was deciding to run fore
district one state Senate seat,
he decided to also be a good idea to appeal
that ruling to the state Supreme Court.
Even posting about it on
Facebook in August of 2021,
our case is before the Idaho Supreme Court.
I am am an absolutist when it
comes to the Second Amendment.
No infringements.
Well Senator Herndon,
where do you stand when it comes
to the rights of private parties
to set their own standards?
No infringements there either
because that's the side the Stae
Supreme Court stood on today
rejecting Herndon et AL's appea,
saying the least between the city and
the eight day music festival was valid.
And the festival,
a private tenant,
had the authority to limit who they let in.
In its rejection of the appeal,
the court affirmed the district court's
decision for the City and the festival
and awarded them attorney's fee,
which we know from the first lat
which was thrown out in 2020,
totaled about $71,000 that Bonner County
had to pay the City of Sandpoin.
So what could that total be fora
three-year case taken all the wo
the state Supreme Court asking r
a financially conservative frie?
So a private entity can limit te
ability to bring a gun into their event,
even if it is held on public property.
So what might the plaintiffs ofs
lost lawsuit might have to say about it?
Well,
the Second Amendment Alliance,
Idaho Second Amendment Alliance
posted this this morning.
Idaho courts has for all intents and purposes
gutted Idaho's firearm preemptive law.
They gave cities and counties a
wide open door to ban guns acros
the state using a lease loophol.
Governor Little should call an emergency
special session to fix this pro.
Wonder if we're going to see
a bill about this next year?
Well, according to Senator Scott Herndon,
we will. His reaction today.
He says today's court's decision
provides A mechanism for cities
to take away the average law
abiding citizens most effective
tool at protecting innocent liv.
I will go to the mat to find a
legislative solution for Idaho'n
owners while property rights are fundamental.
Gun rights are equally fundamen,
he said, and the right of self-defense
must be protected on public property.
So what about the winners?
The festival at Sandpoint said.
Basically, yeah,
no kidding,
we saw this coming as well.
Since the original lawsuits were
deemed to not have merit,
we were confident the Idaho Supreme Court
would have a similar and favorable decision.
The safety of our fans,
volunteers,
staff and artists is of the utmt
importance and continues to be t
the forefront of everything we
do at the festival at Sandpoint.
By the way,
that festival kicks off July
27th with such acts as REO,
Speedwagon Train, Gary Clark,
Junior and Ashley McBride.
Don't forget your tickets,
but also don't forget to leave
your guns in the car.