ASU President Responds To Upcoming Campus Carry Implementation

By G. Halek

JONESBORO, ARKANSAS — It’s no secret that the Arkansas State University system has fought tooth and nail against allowing concealed carry on campus. It all started when Arkansas legislators were interested in ditching a lot of superfluous ‘gun free zones’. Then they took a closer look at the university system and initially allowed public universities to develop a system for allowing concealed carry on campus.

Arkansas State University system — amongst others in the state — decided to sideline all of that. No actual implementation of any gun policies took place whereby students and faculty were free to enter campus with their concealed carry guns.

Finally, Arkansas legislators had enough. In November, legislators began pushing for a law that would require public universities and colleges to comply with concealed carry on campus. By the time the final bill made it to the governor’s desk, it included stipulations that would require concealed carriers to take an enhanced course offered through the state police prior to walking onto campus with a gun.

Arkansas State University balked at the bill as it became law but ultimately had to relent that this was the law of the land. As a public institution, it was beholden to …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation