OSU getting sued for gun policy
This week Students for Concealed Carry Foundation, Inc. filed a lawsuit in Franklin County Common Pleas Court challenging The Ohio State University’s authority to ban lawful possession of firearms by students, faculty, staff, and other affiliates on its campuses.
The group, joined by Ohioans for Concealed Carry, believes that Ohio State’s campus gun ban unlawfully infringes on fundamental Constitutional Rights. It also disarms students to and from campus, leaving them vulnerable to violent crime on their commute in what is historically a high crime area, the University District. While Ohio law permits a concealed handgun licensee to store a firearm in a motor vehicle on OSU’s campuses, a student could face administrative sanctions from the university including expulsion due to the certain provisions in the Student Code of Conduct.
July 8th, 2014 at 8:26 am
Oregon State University (another “OSU”) has the same issues with respect to Carry .. concealed or otherwise.
Oregon State Law allows students/faculty to maintain a firearm within his/her vehicle on campus; but the University regulations obviate that State Law.
If a faculty member, or staff, or student is found to be in possession of a firearm on campus … even though it is not being carried by the person, that individual is subject to draconian measures by the University.
A student may be disenfranchised by having his/her student standing removed; they can be dis-enrolled by the university.
A member of the faculty or staff can be fired. Yes, they are allowed by State Law to have a firearm in their vehicle, but they will lose their job.
For 15 years, I “carried” on campus, by keeping a firearms on my car. I was always uncomfortable with knowing that someone could break into my car and steal my pistol, so I eventually began to carry my firearm into the office where I worked. I was uncomfortable with this also, because I didn’t want to make my co-workers feel ‘uncomfortable’.
I did it anyway; not every day, but often.
There’s something wrong with laws, and regulations, which make a man who has a Concealed Handgun License feel uncomfortable with CHL, when he has already been vetted repeatedly by the County Sheriff.