The Michigan Court of Appeals says colleges can ban guns on their campuses.
The University of Michigan and advocates for gun regulations argue schools are safe spaces. They say schools, including colleges should be allowed to regulate guns on their campuses.
The case came up after Joshua Wade sued the University of Michigan over its policy that only lets law enforcement and military have guns on campus.
Steve Dulan is Wade’s attorney. He says the decision violates the ability to have a uniform law across the state.
“The U of M Board of Regents has decided to create a little hole in the middle of the state where the law is not the same as everywhere else in Michigan.”
Dulan says the decision violates prior case law, and creates unreasonable expectations for people who want to carry their guns.
“Any of us who have been to Ann Arbor know that it’s kinda hard to tell whether you’re on campus or not in Ann Arbor. We’re supposed to have this comprehensive uniform scheme across the state and this is a chip in that system.
Democratic Representative Robert Wittenberg is chair of the Gun Violence Prevention Caucus.
“It’s important that these places of learning, higher institutions, schools in general, in order to ensure the safety of everyone that’s learning there and studying there, that they are able to have the ability to say what’s safe and what’s not safe on their campus.”
The University of Michigan says the Second Amendment does not reach so-called “sensitive places” which include schools.