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Howdy again, THR! I've heard that some universities (virginia tech, some smaller ones in SC also, but probably more) have arms lockers on campus. Here at Emory University in atlanta, GA (I'm a current undergrad), I'm fairly sure we have no such thing.
I know I would appreciate having one; remaining an active shooter requires me to store my firearm with a friend, and much planning and coordination on both ends so that I can eventually get to practicing.
At one of Emory's other campuses there is a small military club that recently started up, and here at their main campus, several of my university friends have a competition team, although it's not affiliated with the school (Atlanta Collegiate Competition Shooters, if you're interested). So I think maybe with enough support persistence, we could convince big Emory that an arms locker under control of campus police is an OK thing.
What are your thoughts on arms lockers on campuses?
 
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At Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas you used to be able to (I do not know about now, I graduated in '96) lock your firearms up in arms lockers at the University Police Department, and you could access them 24 hours a day. I always lived off campus, but if you lived on campus it was a decent way to do it.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr
 
many schools have legitimate rifle teams, they have ranges and rooms full of arms.......and ive never heard of a single incident from any of these schools regarding firearms.


if your school doesnt have an arms locker, i dont see how it could hurt to have a petition and request they make one available.

the worst they can say is no.
 
We had the same thing available back at Penn State years ago. The University Police Dept. kept a secure storage room for students' guns. (This is central PA...there were a LOT of students' guns! :D)

I never ended up using it as the rifle team had their own storage room adjacent to our indoor range. I also did occasionally store things with off-campus friends, but that has to be the right friend under very favorable circumstances.

Assuming that there is a law or university policy prohibiting you keeping your firearms at your residence (?), inquire with your campus police department.
 
Count yourself lucky that your school allows weapons. At mine, I tipped off public safety that I had found a liquor and Marijuana stash where guys were selling and distributing the stuff around the campus. Their reaction? "We need names and probable cause." Apparently, seeing people stumble of a room stoned and drunk holding bottles and doobies in their hands does not count as probable cause that people are supplying illegal intoxicants. Of course, I read in the school paper that there was rumor that a student had a gun, so security decides that a rumor is enough to go on and they do a thorough search of the student's room. I swear, if I gave the name and room number of a guy who sells Cocaine, they'd shrug and say that I need more evidence. However, if I said that I think someone in Room 134 had a gun, they would suddenly go into a panic and look at ever square micrometer of the room with an electron microscope. I honestly don't get it.
 
Michigan State University will store firearms for students at the Campus Police station. I don't know the exact procedures as I never lived on campus when I owned firearms and was also a student.
 
A silly solution to a manufactured problem.
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I'd have to agree; If it were up to me, campus carry laws would be passed, and I'd be treated like a law abiding citizen rather than a juvenile miscreant.

I shot an email off to my Campus PD... I bet the answer is "Nope, we don't got one. Also we'll be searching your room for contraband because we can".

My room has actually been searched before because a Resident Assistant reported me for commenting on the rising prices of ammo. Talk about paranoia.
 
My room has actually been searched before because a Resident Assistant reported me for commenting on the rising prices of ammo. Talk about paranoia.
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Good thing you didn't have a couple of copies of Guns N Ammo lying around...you'd have been expelled.

No way I'd put my guns in a college arms locker for someone else to take care of. Not unless it was a $100 Mosin that has seen worse abuse.
 
LeonCarr said:
At Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas you used to be able to (I do not know about now, I graduated in '96) lock your firearms up in arms lockers at the University Police Department, and you could access them 24 hours a day. I always lived off campus, but if you lived on campus it was a decent way to do it.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr
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texas a&m had the same thing back in the day too
 
LeonCarr said:
At Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas you used to be able to (I do not know about now, I graduated in '96) lock your firearms up in arms lockers at the University Police Department, and you could access them 24 hours a day. I always lived off campus, but if you lived on campus it was a decent way to do it.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr
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That is the way it worked at Penn State too, back in the 70's. Fortunately the Campus Police station at the time was less than a block away. :)
 
I don't understand putting your arms under police control. Maybe I'm missing something but why not just keep them where you live? Frank
 
I don't understand putting your arms under police control. Maybe I'm missing something but why not just keep them where you live? Frank
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Because if you are a college student many colleges and universities prohibit firearms possession in the dorms and sometimes in all student housing. If you are found with a firearm you can be expelled.

Also, in some stats, firearms possession in dorms may be illegal.

Hence the reason for storing your firearms with the college police if you live on campus.
 
I don't understand putting your arms under police control. Maybe I'm missing something but why not just keep them where you live? Frank
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Because most college campuses don't allow firearms in the dorms and while living in the dorms you're subject to (often unannounced) inspections.

It was technically against policy, but when I was in school I just kept my gun in my car (my handgun that is - that I bought while still in school. My longguns were at home with the parents). I'm sure there will be banter back and forth about the thieves stealing it, but realistically break-ins were (and are) rare until you leave something of value in plain sight. My car was empty if just looking in from the outside. If they did break in, I doubt they'd have found my gun, which I kept stashed in a case in the same little compartment as the spare tire.
 
I don't understand putting your arms under police control. Maybe I'm missing something but why not just keep them where you live?
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Because if you are a college student many colleges and universities prohibit firearms possession in the dorms and sometimes in all student housing. If you are found with a firearm you can be expelled.

Also, in some stats, firearms possession in dorms may be illegal.

Hence the reason for storing your firearms with the college police if you live on campus.
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Because my permanent home is down in Dallas, Texas, but current residence is in Atlanta, GA. That's hardly possession of a firearm and probably constitutes some infringement of my personal RKBA by the owners enforcing their policies on their own private property (which I currently inhabit). The owners, of course, being Emory University, and their property being the off campus dormrooms they maintain.

There has to be some defensible argument that this is an infringement of my right to RKBA? I'm pretty awful at legal theory, but I do know that Emory University isn't making being an active shooter convenient.
 
Up here in Bemidji, campus security has a room full of lockers you can use. Two padlocks and restricted access (If you have a weapon in storage, 24hr access). They don't check what you have, and you can get more than one locker. I've got one for my guns, and another shorter, fatter one for all my ammo.
 
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I don't understand putting your arms under police control. Maybe I'm missing something but why not just keep them where you live? Frank
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Because we were not allowed to keep guns in the dorms. Nor would I want to, actually. No secure place to put them.
 
Because we were not allowed to keep guns in the dorms. Nor would I want to, actually. No secure place to put them.
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Where I go to college, I think I'm just about the only student who actually likes guns and knows how to use them. Besides, what would the other students here want with a firearm? They'd see it and go into anaphylactic shock.
 
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Where I go to college, I think I'm just about the only student who actually likes guns and knows how to use them. Besides, what would the other students here want with a firearm? They'd see it and go into anaphylactic shock.
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You are obviously not going to school in Central Pennsylvania. :)
 
You are obviously not going to school in Central Pennsylvania. :)
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You are obviously not going to school in Metropolitan Maryland. Let me tell you: 'The brain-scrambling illegal carcinogenic substance is good. The gun is evil."
 
I went to a fairly left-leaning college (top 20 academically, otherwise it wouldn't have been worth it) and had a photography class once. I had a couple photos that had a sword in them and a non-functioning WWII MG. They commented "why would you have a sword???" as if sword = bomb and the MG prompted "should we be concerned?" comments... Of course I clarified that the MG a) didn't do anything, didn't even have a receiver (they had no clue what that meant though) and b) didn't belong to me. The idea of carrying a gun on campus would have sent them screaming to the closest police station while calling 911 and crying out to God...
 
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You are obviously not going to school in Metropolitan Maryland. Let me tell you: 'The brain-scrambling illegal carcinogenic substance is good. The gun is evil."
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No, I -lived- there for 28 years after I got out of College (Penn State). I've just recently escaped to Columbia SC from Columbia MD.

Now, not only do I -have- guns, I -sell- them. :)
 
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