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Only two public universities in VA have a gun ban that can half be construed as enforceable law: GMU and VCU. They have theirs in the Virginia Administrative Code, and charge their university police depts. with the duty to ask "violators" to leave the property, and can charge you with trespass if you refuse.
Places such as Virginia Tech, however, do not have their gun bans in code, and are simply university policy they require their students/faculty/staff to follow under contract.
Reading through Tech's policy, I notice it has similar wording to GMU's VAC ban, in that it only applies to buildings and events. Tech says they can enforce their policy ban against the public, or as they call them, "third parties" (non-student/fac./staff).
Since public universities in the commonwealth are state agencies, and are under full control of the general assembly (which has not passed a law banning guns at universities), under what grounds could VT prohibit you from open carrying at say a dining hall?
Only two public universities in VA have a gun ban that can half be construed as enforceable law: GMU and VCU. They have theirs in the Virginia Administrative Code, and charge their university police depts. with the duty to ask "violators" to leave the property, and can charge you with trespass if you refuse.
Places such as Virginia Tech, however, do not have their gun bans in code, and are simply university policy they require their students/faculty/staff to follow under contract.
Reading through Tech's policy, I notice it has similar wording to GMU's VAC ban, in that it only applies to buildings and events. Tech says they can enforce their policy ban against the public, or as they call them, "third parties" (non-student/fac./staff).
Since public universities in the commonwealth are state agencies, and are under full control of the general assembly (which has not passed a law banning guns at universities), under what grounds could VT prohibit you from open carrying at say a dining hall?