Campus Carry

Montana’s Board of Regents is vowing to fight a new state law which opens the door to students being armed on campus for self-defense.

The Kansas House passed a Republican-sponsored bill late last week to lower the state’s concealed carry age from 21 to 18 years. 

With Democrats in control of the federal government more state legislatures are pushing to guard the freedom of their residents by removing concealed carry permit requirements.

The Montana House will soon vote on legislation to defend self-defense rights by eliminating state government-mandated gun-free zones at Montana university campuses and other schools on public property.

Tennessee State Rep. Rush Bricken (R) and State Sen. Janice Bowling (R) are pushing  legislation to broaden existing campus carry laws and allow students with carry permits to be armed for self-defense.

Democrat presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg is pledging to appoint pro-gun control judges if elected to the White House. 

The Missouri House passed legislation Tuesday night to allow to allow concealed permit holders to carry guns on campus for self-defense.

The Kansas House passed a bill Wednesday that opens concealed and campus carry to 18-20 year-olds in the state. 

The West Virginia House of Delegates passed legislation Wednesday night to allow concealed permit holders to carry a gun for self-defense while on campus.

West Virginia Republican lawmakers are pushing campus carry legislation to allow concealed carry permit holders to be armed for self-defense while on public campuses.

President Trump doubled down Tuesday by stressing that armed teachers are a critical part of “hardening” schools in America.

Officials at the University of Texas at Austin recently requested that professors remove “gun free” signs posted on their outwardly facing windows, but the deadline for “voluntary compliance” has passed, and the signs remain.

A University of Utah grad assistant lost her teaching position after including anti-Second Amendment language in her syllabus and warning that students who legally carried concealed would be made to stand in a 3′ by 3′ square in the back of the room.

Superior Court Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams denied requests for an injunction against Georgia’s campus carry law.

Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) is calling for a repeal of campus carry and limits plus restrictions on public carry.

Kent State University graduate Kaitlin Bennett posted a photo of herself walking on campus with an AR-10 demanding “#CampusCarryNow.”

State Rep. Tim Moore (R-Elizabethtown) says campus carry lets would-be attackers know that students at Kentucky’s publicly funded universities and colleges will offer armed resistance.

A violent felon at UT-Austin wanted to maintain a status quo leaving every law-abiding student in the classroom defenseless if under assault.

Law-abiding Californians can no longer buy ammunition out-of-state or possess an unregistered AR-15 with a bullet button accessory.

On the fifth anniversary of the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School a daughter of one of the school’s teachers said that campus carry “creates a dangerous environment” for students and teachers alike.

This month, college students across the country receive their final grades for the fall semester. It’s also time to assign a grade for a project that has quietly been succeeding in multiple states – concealed carry on college campuses.

The gunman who opened fire on Aztec High School wrote a manifesto in which he said he planned to take a classroom hostage and “go apesh*t.”

A Texas private university says it will add armed and unarmed security to shuttle buses following a shooting incident that occurred on campus Tuesday morning.

Michael Bloomberg boosted the finances of the gun control lobby by giving and/or spending over $50 million in 2014 alone.

The suspect who allegedly shot and killed a Texas Tech police officer on the night of October 9 was not old enough to legally carry a gun on campus via Texas’ campus carry law.

Houston area talk radio host and producer Kenneth Webster shared his thoughts on the early successes of Texas’ campus carry law and why California should match it in an article published by KPRC Radio.

Despite debate over campus carry, empirical evidence proves that law-abiding citizens with guns on campus are just that–law-abiding.

Georgia College held a meeting this week to address questions and concerns regarding campus carry–and one student showed up.

Prof. Kevin Willmott taught his first class this semester wearing a bulletproof vest to show his disapproval of Kansas’ new campus carry law.

One person showed up for a meeting at Augusta University which was designed to address questions and concerns surrounding campus carry.

Professor wore body armor to class to protest law allowing concealed carry permit holders to carry their guns on campus for self-defense.

College campus rape survivor Shayna Lopez-Rivas says pepper spray is not a sufficient defensive tool–women need guns.

A Texas community college professor in San Antonio arrived at class on the first day of a new law allowing concealed carry of handguns wearing protective body armor.

Antonia Okafor is a black graduate student who carries a gun for self-defense and some the New York Times readership is bothered by it.

District Judge Lee Yeakel dismissed a lawsuit brought brought against campus carry by three University of Texas professors.

University of West Georgia adjunct professor says arguments against campus carry are not “based on logic, history, or verified facts.”

Campus carry for self-defense on public college and university campuses is now legal in Georgia and Kansas.

Pennsylvania’s Senate passed legislation on June 28 to allow teachers and staff to be armed on K-12 campuses to defend themselves and the children in their classrooms.

On July 1, 2017, campus carry for law-abiding students at public colleges and universities goes into effect in Kansas.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is training faculty of Lakeland, Florida’s Southeastern University to carry concealed weapons for self-defense and is deputizing them to get around the state’s ban on campus carry.