University policies re carrying on campus

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Does anyone know if there are ANY universities that allow concealed carry on their campuses? I'm wondering because we have a Second Amendment Club on campus and I know several students here who have permits. Our campus is located in a really bad part of town, and I would like to start a petition to ask the university to change their policy about carrying on campus. But it would be helpful to know if there are other universities out there that allow carrying on campus.

Thanks!
 
At least in Ohio, I'm pretty sure it's state law that you can't carry on campus, it's not a school board decision. Not sure about Michigan's (where I go to school) laws on it, but the campus safety office has a safe that you can bring your gun to for them to hold. Even that, though, is technically considered carrying on campus since you'd have to walk through the school's parking lot to the office lol.
 
I can think of several states (OR and UT for two) that don't have any state-level laws banning carry at universities. However, I doubt you'd get many university encouraging carry.
 
Yeah, I forgot about the whole LAW thing... looked it up on packing.org and sure enough, college campuses are off limits. Guess I'll have to work on getting the law changed first :D

Actually, they recently changed the law about restaurants, so maybe there's hope.

The funny on is that you are not allowed to carry in a courthouse, but a judge does get to decide who can carry in HIS particular courtroom... wonder how you get to the courtroom without going into the courthouse. Maybe he would have to have a ladder out the window? :uhoh:
 
California Penal Code section 626.9 [Gun Free School Act of 1995] specifically exempts holders of a valid CA CCW permit from the general prohibition against carrying on campus.

So, if you live in North-State, (basically, once you get north of Sacramento) where you can easily get a permit, you can legally carry on any California campus in the state. (As well as most other places.)

Dex }:>=-
 
Woah there Dex you just turned my whole world upside down... California has a GOOD gun law?!?! Excuse my while I pick my jaw up off the floor... :what:
 
As insanely anti-gun as CA is, they have any number of perfectly rational gun-related law clauses, such as the law that says, "If your child gets hold of a gun [yada, yada, penalty, penalty] EXCEPT if the child was using the gun to defend him/her self.

The wierd part is that all CA laws are written:

NO ONE SHALL EVER...
...except the law shall not apply to 1,2,3,4,5.

You just never see the second parts when any CA law is quoted.

Dex }:>=-
 
The Minnesota State College and University system cannot bar visitors from lawful carry on campus.

The University of Minnesota, however because it's charter pre-dates the state, does ban visitor's legal guns but they cannot punish them for carrying - only ask them to leave if discovered.

Private colleges [and businesses] can post - at every entrance to a specific building - to ban lawful carry there. Big, ugly signs so most do not.
 
If I recall Washington state law correctly, concealed carry is prohitbited on K-12 campuses, but not on university campuses. What actual university policies are, I can't say.

Given the area of Seattle (OK, given the fact that it's in Seattle) that UW is located in, I definitely wouldn't feel safe without my gun on or around the UW campus.
 
Don't forget about Kern County. I believe we have the most permits in the state of California. I always thought I was illegally carrying to sporting events on school grounds in the past. It was a while back someone told me I was exempt. It made me a happy camper.
 
Don't forget about Kern County. I believe we have the most permits in the state of California. I always thought I was illegally carrying to sporting events on school grounds in the past. It was a while back someone told me I was exempt. It made me a happy camper.
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I don't know if it's a local thing or state-wide, but alot of the state buildings here in Butte county have totally mis-stated "No Weapons allowed in this building, not even pocket knives" signs that misquote CA Penal Code 171b. These are completely bogus.

The knife prohibition in the law is "No...in excess of four inches in blade length", and CCW holders are completely exempted from the gun prohibition.

Dex }:>=-
 
Washington preempts all local regulation of guns, so universities have no authority to ban guns. At Evergreen State, where they pride themselves on pretending to be 60's hippie liberals, they have some "social contract" that bans guns, but their attorney general told them they can't enforce it.

Of course, private colleges can ban carrying on their property like any other land owner.
 
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Okay, I think my argument to the Ark. legislature will be... "Do we REALLY want a gun law that is MORE restrictive than one California has?!?"

:D
 
In Idaho, the Board of regents have a regulation that disarms students, staff and faculty of the universities and colleges.. Members of the general public can carry conceled on campus, but student, staff and faculty can't.
 
I've written this before . . . schools pass RULES and REGULATIONS whose violation may - at worst - get you expelled. And then, only if you're caught . . . which is unlikely, as long as your concealed gun stays concealed and you tell NOBODY but NOBODY about it.

I'd be concerned about what the LAW in my jurisdiction says - that's what counts.

I've never had very much concern about mere RULES . . .
 
Ladybug, other than SB23, state laws in California aren't that bad. It's the counties and cities that can be tight-fisted with CCWs but once you get them, the leash is pretty loose.
 
No guns allowed in North Carolina schools or on campus unless you are LEO, active duty military, or there is some approved educational purpose.

Anyway I've always felt that if you carry concealed wisely no one will ever know. If the situation arises where you need the weapon the least of your worries is an arrest for carrying concealed.
 
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