SCC Condemns Texas Tech & UNT Policies Prohibiting Concealed Carry at Events
Austin, TX -(AmmoLand.com)- Over the past several months, Students for Concealed Carry (SCC) has repeatedly criticized policies proposed by the University of North Texas and Texas Tech University that would prohibit the licensed concealed carry of handguns at performance venues and large-scale events on university property.
Now that both universities have adopted these policies, SCC is compelled to repeat these criticisms. (NOTE: UNT defines a “large-scale event” as any event at which “attendance is reasonably anticipated to exceed 200 individuals”; Texas Tech’s policy specifies “performance venues” and “ticketed events”; both policies also single out events where alcohol is served.)
In the past, SCC has illustrated how unnecessary such policies are by pointing to the example of the Austin City Limits Music Festival, which sees annual attendance of almost half a million people, which allows alcohol sales, and which—due to being held on municipal property and not meeting any of the criteria of a prohibited place listed under Section 46.03 or 46.035 of the Texas Penal Code—allows licensed concealed carry. However, …Read the Rest
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