Bluesheepdog_WA
New member
Hello everyone,
Ok so getting my feet wet here at OC.org by jumping in with both feet LOL.
I have a question about carrying on college campuses. I know no one here claims to be an attorney and this site does not give legal advice, I am just looking for personal opinions from folks who have a vested interest in both open carry and CPL carry.
RCW 9.41.290, the "state preemption" law specifically states that the State "...fully occupies and preempts the entire field of firearms regulation within the boundaries of the state, including the registration, licensing, possession, purchase, sale, acquisition, transfer, discharge, and transportation of firearms...". I understand that RCW to mean that the Legislature alone decides where a CPL holder or open carry advocate may carry their firearm.
RCW 9.41.300 lists the places that any carry (with or without a CPL) is prohibited, and that law only covers K-12 schools, not state owned colleges or universities specifically.
So, by that examination of the law, isn't the prohibition of firearms possession on the state universities and the state community/technical colleges a de facto violation of both our Constitutional rights and the existing state law governing firearms possession? Shouldn't the state preemption law nullify any campus rule or policy that states you cannot carry on campus?
The way I see it, if you can be trusted to legally own a firearm (no criminal/mental health issues) and if you also passed a background check for a CPL, you should be trusted to responsibly carry your firearm to campus, especially in light of the recent rise in campus violence and the budget shortfalls that many cities and counties are still struggling with that have negatively impacted their law enforcement capabilities.
We have nearly 400 thousand folks in this state with CPLs that legally and responsibly carry their firearms every day, and God alone knows how many open carry citizens and the overwhelming majority of those folks do so without any incidents or problems. It is disgraceful to me that the colleges and universities somehow find those same responsible, law abiding people to be instantly untrustworthy just because they walk onto their campus with a firearm, and they do so without the legal authority to prohibit those same firearms.
What do the people here think of that?
Ok so getting my feet wet here at OC.org by jumping in with both feet LOL.
I have a question about carrying on college campuses. I know no one here claims to be an attorney and this site does not give legal advice, I am just looking for personal opinions from folks who have a vested interest in both open carry and CPL carry.
RCW 9.41.290, the "state preemption" law specifically states that the State "...fully occupies and preempts the entire field of firearms regulation within the boundaries of the state, including the registration, licensing, possession, purchase, sale, acquisition, transfer, discharge, and transportation of firearms...". I understand that RCW to mean that the Legislature alone decides where a CPL holder or open carry advocate may carry their firearm.
RCW 9.41.300 lists the places that any carry (with or without a CPL) is prohibited, and that law only covers K-12 schools, not state owned colleges or universities specifically.
So, by that examination of the law, isn't the prohibition of firearms possession on the state universities and the state community/technical colleges a de facto violation of both our Constitutional rights and the existing state law governing firearms possession? Shouldn't the state preemption law nullify any campus rule or policy that states you cannot carry on campus?
The way I see it, if you can be trusted to legally own a firearm (no criminal/mental health issues) and if you also passed a background check for a CPL, you should be trusted to responsibly carry your firearm to campus, especially in light of the recent rise in campus violence and the budget shortfalls that many cities and counties are still struggling with that have negatively impacted their law enforcement capabilities.
We have nearly 400 thousand folks in this state with CPLs that legally and responsibly carry their firearms every day, and God alone knows how many open carry citizens and the overwhelming majority of those folks do so without any incidents or problems. It is disgraceful to me that the colleges and universities somehow find those same responsible, law abiding people to be instantly untrustworthy just because they walk onto their campus with a firearm, and they do so without the legal authority to prohibit those same firearms.
What do the people here think of that?