Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. of Utah has signed compromise legislation that will allow students in the state’s college dormitories to choose not to room with gun owners, but will not permit colleges to ban concealed weapons on their campuses. The law ends a long-running dispute in which colleges said they had the authority to ban guns in order to maintain safety and protect academic freedom. The legislative compromise came about after the state’s Supreme Court ruled in September that the University of Utah could not ban guns on its campus in defiance of a state gun-rights law.
March 14, 2007
Utah Governor Signs Legislation Ending Campus-Gun Dispute
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