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Via the Times-Picayune:

House committee gives its blessing to carrying concealed weapons to churches, temples

By Ed Anderson, The Times-Picayune

April 28, 2010, 2:19PM

BATON ROUGE -- Persons who have have been qualified to carry concealed weapons should be able to keep them strapped on in a church or temple as a way to enhance security, a House committee said today.

The Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice voted 8-3 for House Bill 68 by Rep. Henry Burns, R-Shreveport, sending it to more debate on the House floor.

The bill would allow a church to hire a security force or create its own by authorizing the  church's board or pastor to tap parishioners who have concealed weapons permits to bring them to church. State law now bans weapons in houses of worship.

The bill does not limit the number of congregants who can be used as the security force.