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Further, the law gives private property <br />owners the right to prohibit guns in their <br />establishments, but prohibits landowners <br />from restricting firearm possession by <br />tenants and their guests without <br />distinguishing between residential and <br />commercial properties. This creates <br />confusion for shopping malls and other retail <br />properties with large common areas that are <br />not occupied by the tenants but which the <br />tenants and their customers must cross to <br />access the tenant's space. <br />Finally, the Citizens Personal Protection Act <br />does not explicitly state the type of firearm a <br />permit holder may carry, and this has led to <br />ambiguity regarding whether the law is <br />limited to the right to carry a pistol -length <br />firearm in public or if it allows for any <br />firearm, including a military -style assault <br />rifle. <br />Response: The League of Minnesota <br />Cities requests an amendment to the <br />Citizens Personal Protection Act that <br />would allow cities to prohibit firearms in <br />city -owned buildings, facilities, and parks. <br />The League supports clarifying the Act to <br />state that a permit holder, under the <br />terms of a permit, is allowed to carry a <br />pistol -length firearm, but not a <br />semiautomatic military -style assault <br />weapon. The League is not seeking a <br />repeal of the Citizens Personal Protection <br />Act, nor authority to prohibit legal <br />weapons in parking lots or on city streets <br />and sidewalks. The League also supports <br />efforts by commercial property owners to <br />clarify that the prohibition on restricting <br />possession by tenants and their guests <br />applies only to residential rental property. <br />SD-34. Public Safety <br />Communications <br />Issue: The state role in financing public <br />safety communications has important cost <br />36 <br />implications for cities. The state needs to <br />accept financial responsibility for use by <br />cities of the state public safety radio <br />communications backbone. Cities have <br />struggled to pay high expenses to participate <br />in the 800 MHz statewide public safety <br />system. <br />In previous state budgets, the Legislature <br />turned to revenue sources upon which cities <br />depend to cover costs to purchase and <br />operate new communications technology <br />and hardware for computer -aided dispatch, <br />911 public safety answering points (PSAPs), <br />and interoperable radio communications <br />equipment and subsystems in order to <br />finance the build -out of the state backbone <br />for the new system. As a result, fees were <br />directed to fund revenue bond debt service <br />used to complete the statewide build -out of <br />the Allied Radio Matrix for Emergency <br />Response (ARMER) and the cost of <br />operations of the state public safety radio <br />communications backbone. <br />At the federal level, the Federal <br />Communications Commission (FCC) has <br />ordered reservation of 700 MHz wireless <br />spectrum for a national interoperable <br />broadband network to meet public safety <br />communications needs. FirstNet was <br />established in 2012 as an independent <br />authority within the National <br />Telecommunications and Information <br />Administration (NTIA) and is responsible <br />for constructing a nationwide high-speed <br />public safety wireless broadband network. <br />Response: The League of Minnesota <br />Cities supports continued and increased <br />state financing of substantial local costs to <br />participate in ARMER, including the <br />acquisition and modernization of <br />subscriber equipment, such as portable <br />and mobile radios required for ARMER <br />users. The League also opposes efforts to <br />divert dedicated ARMER funds to the <br />