Campus gun ban could be headed to Colorado ballots

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Source: AP

DENVER (AP) -- Colorado's gun control debate is moving out of the state Capitol and straight to voters.

A group of gun control supporters got permission Thursday to start gathering signatures for a ballot measure to ban concealed weapons on public college campuses.

The decision comes as Democratic leaders in state government insist they don't want to pass any new gun laws this year, seeking to move on from a divisive year mired in gun debates that prompted recalls of two lawmakers and the resignation of a third.

A campus ban was among the gun ideas Democrats advanced last year. Colorado and Utah are the only states that allow concealed weapons on public college and university campuses. Colorado's highest court sided with gun activists in 2010 and ordered all campuses to allow concealed weapons.

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1. Wrong info.

Colorado and Utah are the only states that allow concealed weapons on public college and university campuses

http://collegeinsurrection.com/2013/05/five-pennsylvania-colleges-now-allow-concealed-carry-on-campus/

Twenty-two states ban concealed weapons and five — Colorado, Mississippi, Oregon, Utah and Wisconsin — allow firearms on public university campuses.

Another wrong piece of info,

Colorado's highest court sided with gun activists in 2010 and ordered all campuses to allow concealed weapons.

The judge ruled that public college's couldn't supersede the state's pre-emption law, the ruling didn't apply to private college's.

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2. Thanks for the info. the NCSL says 6 states allow concealed carry on campus.

BTW, College Insurrection is some libertarian right wing site. The non-partisan NCSL lists all the states College Insurrection mentioned as well as KS as allowing concealed carry on college campuses.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/education/guns-on-campus-overview.aspx

And the "all campuses" part might refer to public colleges based on the context the sentence was in, but hey the AP is the McDonald's of news so this kind of writing isn't too surprising.

The NCSL also says: " In March 2012, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the University of Colorado’s policy banning guns from campus violates the state’s concealed carry law."

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3. Thanks for the info.

I didn't realize that College Insurrection was a RW site, I'll never link to them again.

Didn't know Kansas had joined the list of states that allow CC on college campus.