An Arkansas Blog country correspondent brings news from the McGehee Times Dermott News that the Desha County Quorum Court has voted 7-2 to allow the nine justices of the peace on the county governing body to carry weapons to meetings. Only JPs.

The 2017 legislature expanded the places to where concealed weapons may be carried to include courthouses.

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