Montana prohibits any person, whether or not he or she possesses a permit or enhanced permit to carry a concealed weapon, from carrying concealed in:

• Portions of a building used for state or local government offices and related areas in the building that have been restricted;¹
• A room in which alcoholic beverages are sold, dispensed, and consumed under a license for the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises;²

• A secure treatment facility operated by the department of public health and human services;³
• In a correctional, detention, or treatment facility operated by or contracted with the department of corrections or a secure treatment facility operated by the department of public health and human services;⁴
• In a detention facility or secure area of a law enforcement facility owned and operated by a city or county;⁵
• At or beyond a security screening checkpoint regulated by the transportation security administration in a publicly owned, commercial airport;⁶
• In a building owned and occupied by the United States;⁷
• On a military reservation owned and managed by the United States;⁸
• On private property where the owner of the property or the person who possesses or is in control of the property, including a tenant or lessee of the property, expressly prohibits firearms;⁹
• Within a courtroom or an area of a courthouse in use by court personnel pursuant to an order of a justice of the peace or judge;¹⁰ or
• In a school building as determined by a school board.¹¹

Montana also generally prohibits any person from carrying a firearm, whether openly or concealed, on a state game preserve, although the Director of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks may issue a permit to carry firearms in these areas.¹²

A landlord or operator of a hotel or motel may not, by contract or otherwise, prevent a tenant or a guest of a tenant from possessing on the premises a firearm that it is legal for the tenant or guest to possess.¹³

Montana has no statutes prohibiting firearms in the following places, although administrative regulations may apply:

• Hospitals;
• Places of worship;
• Sports arenas;
• Gambling facilities; or
• Polling places.

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1. Mont. Code Ann. § 45-8-328.[↩]
2. Id.[↩]
3. Mont. Code Ann. § 45-8-356.[↩]
4. Id.[↩]
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6. Id.[↩]
7. Id.[↩]
8. Id.[↩]
9. Id.[↩]
10. Id.[↩]
11. Id.[↩]
12. Mont. Code Ann. § 87-5-401.[↩]
13. Mont. Code Ann. § 70-24-110.[↩]