Tactful (non-incriminating) way of getting University opinion on CCW?

[1911ShooterTJ]

As the title says, is there a tactful (non-incriminating, I-don’t-want-to-be-expelled) way of getting University opinion on CCW?

I was thinking of sending an email to our University police department from an email asking something similar to the following:

To Whom It May Concern:

I am emailing to inquire about the University Police’s standpoint of students and faculty who posses a legal Pennsylvania License to Carry Firearms. The recent tragedy of the Virginia Tech shootings may have been avoided had Virginia Tech realized the rights of those associated with the University to legally carry a firearm. Does the University recognize this right to legal carry permit holders?

Thank you.

However, I’m not sure this is a good idea. I don’t want them suddenly investigating me for nothing. I DO carry on campus, and it is NOT illegal, but definitely against school rules. Maybe an anonymous email would work? I’d love to get their opinion, but am afraid of the ramifications (which is sad really).

With one semester to go, maybe the best answer is “don’t ask, don’t tell”. Any advice?

 

[El Tejon]

Read the student policy handbook perhaps?

 

[1911ShooterTJ]

The student policy handbook forbids weapons, of course. It’s a very general blanketing statement, and says nothing at all about legal carry permit holders.

Perhaps what I am trying to figure out is individual officer’s opinions, which I will probably not get. I’m almost sure they will spew back “official” policy of no guns, period. I guess the only way to find out a non-official stance would be by knowing a friend on the force, however I do not.

It is probably a lost cause.

 

[mdao]

Have someone else do it for you. I'll gladly write them for you as a prospective student if you PM me the university's information.

 

[EricTheBarbarian]

yea you got one semester. best to be careful and not give them any reason to come after you.

 

[Caimlas]

I'm no lawyer, but...

State universities are (afaik) publicly owned. They are not separate legal jurisdictions, and therefore whatever your state's statues are on concealed carry are, what I would consider the rules - regardless of the "student handbook". I'd act accordingly. This goes double if cities, etc. are prohibited in amending state law.

If the overseer of the property, or the owner of a property, sees fit to ban firearms, I don't think they've got the legal authority to do so, unless the state has some clause that says they can. Unlike a person's house, public, and quasi-public facilities (such as a business open to the public) shouldn't be able to ban firearms. They are, functionally, public land, even if owned privately. They implicitly allow people to attend, and they can no further discriminate against someone lawfully carrying than they can a black person or a woman.

 

[Rattlesnake]

They have more important crap to be doing than running you down. Take a stand and send it as is.

 

[gunsmith]

eh, I would carry but not ask if it isn't a felony or something.
I think here in NV you could lose your permit
So I would carry here in NV but keep it very concealed....but thats just me