The University of Texas System Should Take a Lesson from Texas Tech

By Justin Stakes

Austin, TX -(AmmoLand.com)- The board of regents of the University of Texas System would do well to heed the actions of Texas Tech University, which—on the advice of legal counsel—overruled a proposed policy that would have allowed faculty, staff, and graduate students to designate their offices as “gun-free” zones.

Both Texas Tech’s campus carry task force and UT-Austin’s campus carry policy working group recommended that occupants be allowed to prohibit licensed concealed carry in privately held offices. However, whereas UT-Austin President Gregory Fenves chose to adopt the proposed policy, officials at Texas Tech recognized that such a policy would violate the state’s campus carry law.

Reporting for KAMC News in Lubbock, reporter Alyssa Goard writes:

[Interim Texas Tech] President [John] Opperman explained that after [TTU’s campus carry task force] released preliminary recommendations in December, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued several opinions arguing that it would be illegal to ban guns from classrooms, faculty offices, and dorms.

“Offices can’t be gun free—in the AG opinion was part of the factor there because the same rationale the attorney general used for classrooms applies to offices as well, …Read the Rest

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