Campus Carry Coming to South Dakota and Wyoming

AmmoLand ^ | July 2, 2025 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

There are 12 states where concealed carry on campus is legal during the first half of 2025. On July 1, 2025, there will be fourteen states, as laws become effective in Wyoming and South Dakota.

On  June 30, 1971, the 26th Amendment was ratified, allowing people 18 years and older the right to vote in the United States. Thus, the age of majority was lowered from 21 years to 18 years.  Most students at universities are less than 21 years old. For most of the history of the United States, universities took on the role of a parent for the minors who were students. Many, if not most, forbid activities they considered dangerous. When the age of majority was lowered to 18 in 1971, the “in loco parentis” authority largely disappeared.  People aged 18 or older had legal control of their lives.

In September 2006, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that under Utah law, the University could not unilaterally ban the legal carry of concealed weapons on campus. Six months later, in April of 2007,  the Virginia Tech mass murder was perpetrated. Thirty-two students and faculty were murdered. The University policy disarmed all of the victims. Virginia Tech continues a broad ban on all weapons and some toys today.

The horrendous mass murder at Virginia Tech and the successful implementation of campus carry in Utah helped spur a movement to secure the rights protected by the Second Amendment in state institutions of higher learning across the United States. Several research papers have found no noticeable effect on homicides, suicides, or accidents in those states that have passed laws preventing public institutions of higher learning from banning the carry of handguns for the defense of self and others.

The states that have removed infringements or ruled them

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KEYWORDS: banglist; campus; education; sd; wy

[marktwain]

Public Universities should not be able to infringe on Constitutionally protected rights.

[libertylover]

On June 30, 1971, the 26th Amendment was ratified, allowing people 18 years and older the right to vote in the United States.

I voted in Kentucky at the age of 18 in the 1968 Presidential race. Were there other states besides Kentucky where 18 year olds could vote?

[FlingWingFlyer]

“Don’t Go To College Without It.”

[fella]

When I was in high school and college during the 60’s and 70’s we had carry on campus. Nobody walk around strapped but there were guns in our lockers, cars(PUs) and rooms. Because many of us hunted before and after class or practiced for the shooting teams and ROTC.

[fella]

P.S. we didn’t have campus cops either the schools relied on the local police.

[Billthedrill]

I was a staffer at a certain western university when the ban was lifted there. The promised pools of blood failed to materialize. I swear some of the proggie profs were disappointed.

[faithhopecharity]

good!
let’s hope America can get free of unconstitutional restrictions and denials of our civil rights and liberties including federal and state “guncontrol” (ha ha) bureaus.
ASAP!