Gun rights activists are renewing their call to allow firearms at the Iowa State Fair after a violent incident on the fairgrounds Tuesday night. A man was stabbed and critically injured in a fight involving four young men on the southwest corner of the fairgrounds. Matt Windschitl, a Republican from Missouri Valley, says the comprehensive gun rights bill that passed this year originally included allowing guns at the fair.

 

Windschitl says some lawmakers argued it’s a long-standing Fair Board policy to keep guns out.

 

Windschitl says he  will try to talk to interested parties in the legislature next year to see if minds have changed.