We win - CSU backs down

[CoRoMo]

Mr. Brown just emailed me about his recent (today) success.

http://www.rmgo.org/csu/

BREAKING NEWS

(Fort Collins, 5/05/2010) Today the CSU Board of Governor's voted to rescind their illegal ban on concealed carry on campus.

"They didn't have a legal leg to stand on," said Dudley Brown, Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (RMGO). "We told them in January, in no uncertain terms, that state law did not allow them to create their own gun ban. Unfortunately, it took a lawsuit to force them to back down."

RMGO filed suit against CSU's Board of Governors on April 15th, proving that unelected board had no authority to override existing state law, which explicitly allows permit holders to carry on college campuses. A day later, a Colorado Appeals Court ruled against CU's ban on carrying.

"This has been a good couple of weeks for law-abiding citizens who want to defend themselves on Colorado campuses, and a terrible week for criminals who assume no one is able to defend themselves on campuses," Brown said. "We're now going to track the policy of every secondary education campus in the state -- every community college, every university, all of them -- and file suit against those who attempt to violate Colorado law."

"The citizens, students and faculty at these facilities should thank the members and donors of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, the organization responsible for correcting these errant bureaucrats, and Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, who put a lot of hard work into this battle."

Rocky Mountain Gun Owners is Colorado's largest gun rights organization.

 

[Nushif]

I think that deserves a WEWTZ!

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

That's great news! I assume it applies to the Pueblo campus as well.

The students here voted overwhelmingly in favor of CCW, but the administrators, in their infinite wisdom, said that the campus would be "safer" without all those terrible guns around.

 

[jnyork]

Another step in the right direction.

 

[Warhawk83]

Excellent. I'm currently researching regulations the University Police have set forth at my school. When I registered back in 2006 I vaguely

remember seeing that weapons possession was not allowed even in your vehicle. In my state,your car is considered an extension of your

home, anyone allowed to own a firearm can conceal one in their car even on school grounds. I can't find what I need to confirm this, but I

will be heading back in the fall and have to get another parking permit with the handy dandy illegal parking regulations. This might be fun.

 

[DeathByCactus]

Congrats, wish that would happen in TX. Sucks that I basically live in a victim zone 5 days out of the week.

 

[rhenriksen]

congratulations!

Agreed, hope Texas can get campus carry passed in 2011.

 

[leadcounsel]

Great News!

 

[sonier]

HELL YES!!! this applies ot me here soon ill be attending gunsmith school in trinidad so if theres a problem I KNOW people are fixing it and they say our rights are being taken away if they were to ask me id tell them ive seen more pro gun laws being passed now than the bush adminstration

 

[cchris]

Congrats, wish that would happen in TX. Sucks that I basically live in a victim zone 5 days out of the week.

5 days out of the week? Try 7. Luckily I'm moving in 2 days. And not a day too soon - we've had 5 gunpoint robberies on campus this past year.

In the meantime, I'm keeping my door locked and arming myself with a spray bottle of brake cleaner, since that's the only "weapon" I can have

 

[Fremmer]

So which members of the board who supported the stellar new policy of depriving students of their Second Amendment rights are going to lose their jobs? Their judgment resulted in a lawsuit and all of that bad press....

My guess is not a single one of them.

 

[Robert]

http://www.gazette.com/opinion/university-98235-gun-vote.html
That is the Colorado Springs Gazette's article on the issue. There is also a neat little poll, that we are winning like crazy, on the right side.

 

[sonick808]

this is wild to see all these colleges getting in a huff about guns

when i was at SIU Carbonale in the mid nineties we had a roomate's python holstered on the side of the bunk just in case. We had an SKS in the corner.

At Illinois State we had shotguns in cases in our dorm, again there was no violaton of policy that I was made aware of. Same shotgun i had in my rear window in the high school parking lot in 90-91

I managed not to kill someone, whoda thunk

 

[ForumSurfer]

That's awesome news! Congratulations!

I will never understand policies that ban carrying in certain areas. If someone is intent to do harm, a local ordinance or policy isn't going to slow them down one bit. If "no gun zones" can arguably stop criminals, wouldn't the "no murder zones" be doing that already?

 

[Manco]

It's not just we who win, but everybody aside from mass murderers and other crooks.

and they say our rights are being taken away if they were to ask me id tell them ive seen more pro gun laws being passed now than the bush adminstration

These are not federal laws we're talking about. The current administration is "sleeping" on this issue for the time being, but it's still a danger as Obama personally does not believe in the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

 

[Kentucky_Rifleman]

if they were to ask me id tell them ive seen more pro gun laws being passed now than the bush adminstration

+1. I assume nothing, but SO FAR the current administration has been decidedly quiet about 2A, with Obama even signing the "National Parks carry" bill. There may be FBI agents knocking on my door in the morning to take my guns, but until I see that, I can only judge what has been done so far, and that has been neutral or pro-2A.

So which members of the board who supported the stellar new policy of depriving students of their Second Amendment rights are going to lose their jobs? Their judgment resulted in a lawsuit and all of that bad press....

Schools get sued fairly often, and people rarely get fired over it. They made their decision. The state stepped in and informed them it was the wrong decision. I expect the issue will end there without the firings of the school officials involved. Few school administrators enjoy being censured by the state that employs them.

this is wild to see all these colleges getting in a huff about guns

Just remember, please, that there are lots of us in education who are pro 2A. I am one, and, I am not alone.

Same shotgun i had in my rear window in the high school parking lot in 90-91

When I was in high school in the mid 80s, every truck in the student lot had a rifle hanging in the back window. We just never though a thing about it.

Hopefully the common sense governing our 2nd amendment rights will continue to spread and expand through individual victories like this. Every 2A win is huge, and even something as area-specific as a Co college ban being overturned may influence similar decisions here in Kentucky.

When any of us win, we all win.

KR

 

[Cosmoline]

We win again!

This is good, but what is best in life?

 

[wishin]

Another victory for RKBA. Congratulations.

 

[NMGonzo]

So there ARE reasonable people in charge SOMEWHERE!

 

[oldfool]

one more win for the good guys

plus a ditto for Kentucky Rifleman

 

[cleardiddion]

OMG!
This is so uplifting!

 

[CoRoMo]

The Snowball Effect

Update:

Colorado's Community Colleges lift carry ban

Yesterday (5/10/10) the Colorado Community College System instructed Colorado's Community Colleges to allow permit holders to carry on campus.

That directive was written and signed by System President Nancy McCallin. You can read that directive here.

This applies to all taxpayer funded community colleges in the system. RMGO is working on publishing a list, but expect this directive to take some time to filter down to bureaucrats who, frankly, would rather deny you the ability to carry on their (actually our) campuses.

A special thanks to the good and diligent work of Attorney Jim Manley at Mountain States Legal Foundation. Jim serves as Colorado State Director for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, and is the lead attorney on the CU case (which is facing a deadline this week on that case). Jim also wrote the Amicus Brief Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) filed on the McDonald case.

Mountain States Legal Foundation is working with RMGO and NAGR on some other issues, which we'll alert you about later.

But, the ball is rolling, and right now, we're on the winning side.

Once again, a special thanks to those who have supported our work.

 

[Robert]

http://www.cccs.edu/AboutCCCS/ourcc.html
That shows all the schools that are in the CCCS and, by my understanding, must abide by the directive.

 

[rhenriksen]

Beautiful.