Toothless Tigers: Mizzou head football coach forbids players from owning handguns
By NRAHQ
Note: This article was originally posted on NRA Blog: https://www.nrablog.com/articles/2016/9/toothless-tigers-mizzou-head-football-coach-forbids-players-from-owning-handguns/
Missouri Tigers head football coach Barry Odom recently implemented an unorthodox new rule for his players, forbidding them from owning a handgun, even it was purchased “legally.”
You read that right. A well-paid new head coach of an NCAA Division I football program is commanding his unpaid talent, err, “student-athletes,” to forgo owning a handgun, denying their right to self-defense, hunting and recreational pistol or revolver shooting pursuits – Constitutional rights, mind you – for, well, “reasons.”
More puzzling even, Odom said that guns used “for hunting” were different from handguns, and didn’t mind if players owned them.
I guess Barry doesn’t know about the entire discipline of hunting using handguns, and probably hasn’t heard of any of these handguns for hunters.
Republican Sen. Brian Munzlinger, who himself uses a pistol to hunt, was quick to question Odom’s directive, blasting the coach and the Mizzou athletic department for unreasonably disarming law-abiding students.
“[In] Missouri and in the United States of America, these students are still citizens, and no publicly funded institution should have a policy that overrides our Missouri …Read the Rest
Source:: AmmoLand
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