House members will take a first shot at a handful of gun rights bills Wednesday that would allow concealed carry on college campuses, technical institutes and school board meetings.
The House Homeland Security & Public Safety committee will hear several measures that would expand gun rights for concealed handgun license holders, who must be 21 year old, complete a 10-hour course and undergo an in-depth background check.
Several of the bills that will be heard would allow concealed carry holders to carry handguns on university campuses. Current law prohibits carrying any weapons on school grounds. A similar measure would extend the license holders gun rights to technical institutes and junior colleges. Another would allow license holders to carry at school board meetings.
Although several university leaders, students and institutional police departments have taken aim at the guns on campus measure, it has widespread support in the Texas Legislature. More than half of the House members have signed onto the bill and the same measure passed the Senate in 2009.
Only two states - Utah and Colorado--currently allow guns on college campuses. That means that 77 schools in the country allow guns on campuses.
Source: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/03/house-bill-that-aims-to-allow.html
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