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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.

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.

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.

With an estimated 20 Colorado school districts allowing armed teachers and teachers from other districts to be trained to carry now, Ceasefire Colorado’s Eileen McCarron suggests teachers should be disarmed because police miss their targets 4 out of 5 times.

Democrat Jon Ossoff talks pro-gun but actually opposes Georgians’ right to self-defense on public college and university campuses.

Republican lawmakers in the Kansas House and Senate caved to Michael Bloomberg-funded gun control groups and voted to water down the Kansas campus carry law.

Many predicted professors would flee universities in KS and TX over campus carry but the hordes of resigning profs have not materialized.

Crime Prevention Research Center’s (CPRC) John Lott points out that police are convicted of gun crime at a higher rate than permit holders.

On May 16 the GOP-controlled Kansas Senate sent a bill back to committee to fine tune exemptions sought before campus carry takes effect.

NYT suggests it is a “bizarre premise” to push campus carry on grounds that allowing law-abiding students to shoot back makes them safer.

Beginning August 1, full-time faculty and staff possessing concealed carry permits will be able to carry guns for defense of themselves and their students at Cedarville University.

Late Thursday, Gov. Nathan Deal (R) signed campus carry into law, making campus carry the law of the land in one-fifth of the states.

The gun control group behind the unsuccessful Cocks Not Glocks campaign is now running a satirical commercial selling “bulletproof hoodies” and other body armor for students on campus carry campuses.

Campus carry and legislation holding gun-free businesses liable for injuries to disarmed citizens are both on the move in Missouri.

The Poetry Action Network is mobilizing against campus carry in Georgia, asking others to join its efforts to dissuade Gov. Nathan Deal (R) from signing the legislation into law.

On March 23, 2014, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) signed the Safe Carry Protection Act into law, thereby allowing school boards to arm teachers as a means of preventing a Sandy Hook-like attack. Yet over three years later, no school

On Tuesday, moderate Republicans in the Kansas House stood with conservatives and defeated a Democrat attempt to prevent campus carry from taking effect July 1.

On Thursday the Arkansas House voted to gut the state’s recently adopted campus carry legislation following requests by SEC and Sun Belt Conference commissioners.

Georgia lawmakers passed campus carry legislation early Friday morning, which now heads to Gov. Nathan Deal’s (R) desk for a signature.

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson (R) signed campus carry into law on March 22, and on March 28, SEC Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey issued a statement asking for an exemption so that law-abiding students will not be armed for self-defense at NCAA sporting events in the state.

Arkansas state Representative Bob Ballinger (R-Berryville) is pushing an amendment to the recently passed campus carry law that could gut the obligation to allow campus carry in many on-campus activities and venues.

The Georgia Senate passed campus carry on Tuesday, sending the measure to the House, which has until Thursday at midnight to pass it.

Maryland Senators passed a bill on Friday furthering the state’s prohibitions against law-abiding citizens being armed for self-defense on college and university campuses.

On March 22 Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson (R) signed campus carry legislation into law. On March 23 USA Today Sports suggested a boycott of NCAA events in Arkansas may need to happen if students are going to be allowed to be armed for self-defense.

On March 22 Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson (R) signed his state’s recently passed campus carry legislation into law.

Ohio Senate Bill 199 takes effect March 21, allowing residents with concealed carry permits to carry guns for self-defense in the unsecured portions of airports.

Legislation allowing students with concealed carry permits to carry on college campuses passed the Arkansas House and Senate and is headed to Governor Asa Hutchinson’s (R) desk.

State Representative Blake Carpenter (R-81) has introduced legislation that would knock down limitations on campus carry like the University of Kansas’s ban on carrying a semiautomatic handgun with a round in the chambe

The NRA is working with State Senator Trent Garner (R-27) and Senate Majority Leader Jim Hendren (R-2) to secure campus carry in Arkansas.

Campus Carry passed the Georgia House on Friday and is now headed to the Senate. The bill–HB 280–would allow students with concealed carry licenses to carry guns on campus for self-defense.

Micheal Bloomberg-backed Moms Demand Action and Everytown for Gun Safety have dug in and are fighting passage of laws that would allow students with concealed carry permits to carry guns for self-defense in Florida, Georgia, and Iowa.

Some University of Texas graduate students are holding their meetings with undergrads at bars so as to meet somewhere they are not allowed to be armed for self-defense.

University of Florida associate professor Michelle Campos generally believes more guns equal more crime and specifically believes allowing law-abiding students to be armed for self-defense will “endanger” faculty and staff.