May 21, 2013
The Texas House of Representatives passed the Texas School Safety Training Act (SB 1857) Friday, which authorizes qualified Concealed Handgun License (CHL) instructors to earn school safety certification. In turn, the instructors would be eligible to train teachers to be able to handle an active shooter event.
May 20, 2013
Following months of debate, the Henderson State University Board of Trustees voted to opt out on an Arkansas state measure that allows faculty and staff to carry concealed handguns on campus.
May 16, 2013
After giving a nurse his suicide note, a 28-year-old man shot himself in the head in the emergency room of John C. Lincoln Deer Valley Hospital.
May 14, 2013
A Rangeview High School employee accidentally shot a student he was driving home on Monday afternoon.
May 13, 2013
The University of Oregon (UO) campus police arrested a graduate student Saturday after receiving reports that the man had been firing gunshots inside his campus-area home.
May 10, 2013
In an effort to increase campus safety, the Holyoke Community College (HCC) Board of Trustees is considering arming the school’s nine-person campus police force.
May 8, 2013
Gov. Steve Bullock vetoed a bill Monday that would have allowed college students in the Montana University System (MUS) to carry guns on campus.
May 8, 2013
McLean Middle School went into lockdown on Friday after a Fort Worth Police officer discovered a gun in a teacher’s restroom that belonged to a security guard monitoring the campus.
May 7, 2013
In a 5-1 vote, the University of Central Arkansas’ (UCA) Board of Trustees opted out of an Arkansas state law that allows faculty or staff members with a concealed-carry permit to carry their weapons on campus.
April 16, 2013
Officials at Fairview School has authorized a training program that will certify employees to carry guns on campus.
April 10, 2013
Rhode Island State Rep. Joe Almeida has introduced a bill that would require all campus police officers at state colleges and universities to carry firearms.
April 3, 2013
"Today's NRA proposal is a cruel hoax that will fail to keep our children and schools safe. It is simply designed to assist gun manufacturers flood the nation and our schools with more guns and large magazine clips, which will simply lead to more violence."
April 3, 2013
Drexel University, Eastern Connecticut State University, Green River Community College, Navajo Technical College, Texas A&M University, Tougaloo College and the University of San Francisco were selected for CR Pilot.
March 19, 2013
The Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus was put on lockdown for four hours on Tuesday after multiple eyewitnesses spotted a possible gunman on the grounds.
March 11, 2013
The president of Manchester Community College on Thursday asked legislators to consider arming campus police. The testimony came a day after the college was in lockdown after a student contacted authorities to report that another student had a gun in his waistband.
March 8, 2013
New law is the first in the country to specifically allow teachers to carry guns.
February 12, 2013
University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ (UNLV) police chief has voiced his opposition to a proposed bill that would allow guns on Nevada’s college campuses.
January 23, 2013
In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, Frank Wolf (R-VA) called on the Obama Administration on Tuesday to use existing funds to improve the nation’s background check system and create a national center for campus public safety.
January 22, 2013
The Connecticut State Police has released details about the specific weapons recovered from the scene of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Dec. 14 in Newtown.
January 22, 2013
A Lapeer charter school security officer left his unloaded firearm in a campus restroom on Jan. 14 for a few moments.