ID Sheriff: More Concealed Gun Permits Would Boost Public Safety
The sheriff of a north-central Idaho county where a shooting rampage left four dead and three wounded last May wants more people to obtain concealed weapons permits and carry guns, including on the University of Idaho campus, to improve public safety. “In my opinion, if there were more students with (concealed weapons permits), the world would be safer,” Latah County Sheriff Wayne Rausch told the Lewiston Tribune on Tuesday. “Just because we (law enforcement officers) are charged with protecting the public, doesn’t mean the public shouldn’t be able to protect itself.” The university bans guns except under supervised circumstances at its firing range. Except for law enforcement officials, the university requires that firearms “be transported to the range unloaded, encased, with a trigger lock attached or otherwise rendered inoperable.”
Rausch’s idea also contradicts Moscow Mayor Nancy Chaney, who late last month asked for a legal opinion from the state attorney general’s office on whether the city has the authority to ban both concealed and exposed weapons in public areas such as city buildings.
OK, the university doesn’t allow guns on campus except at their firing range?
I’ve never been on a university campus that actually still has a firing range.
I need to transfer so damn badly.
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My father shot on that range when he went to college there. I taught part of my NRA Personal Protection class there once. Ironically it was not the range portion of the class. The class room portion was just down the hall and I took the students that had never fired a gun there to do some dry firing. The largest caliber allowed on the range is .22LR.
And yet more inspiring words ……………….
My law school (UC Davis) had an indoor firing range a few yards outside the back door of the school. Most people had no idea it was there (it was located in a complex of maintenance buildings).
I never shot there myself, but every year the ROTC had a turkey shoot open to the public. You’d go in, be issued a .22 semi-auto pistol, and had to try to shoot the best score on a paper turkey at 25 yards or so. The winner got a free frozen turkey.
One year, my roommate outshot the ROTC commander to win the turkey. He’s a good shot.
Georgia Tech used to have a firing range buried underneath the stadium (back in my father’s day), but due to relatively recent redesigns of the stadium, I got the impression it was either filled in or blocked off – no one on the staff when I attended a few years back had any idea what I was talking about.
That said, it is very strange that my list of places I would be willing to live in once I start having control over that again seems to be getting longer and longer… I guess I should wait until Democrats have the country under control from two directions, and then see what happens.
Oregon State U had a range through 2001, when I graduated, and probably still does. I have not heard of it being taken down, and if someone had taken it down I’m sure Oregon Firearms Federation would have mentioned it. Only .22 RF is allowed.
Dave-
That range is a 50′ range. I was on the ROTC rifle team when I was at UCD (’92-’96) and we practiced on that same range (our rifles were .22LR target rifles.)
One of the LTs in my unit graduated from UCD in 2002. Apparently by the time he graduated the range had been shut down. I emailed the LTC in charge of the ROTC program, but the range shutdown predates his tenure, and he doesn’t know why it was shut down.