Posted on 04/20/2007 1:02:27 PM PDT by AdamSelene235
A University of Colorado student has been arrested after campus police said they discovered two guns, a knife and several hundred rounds of ammunition in his dormitory room. Matthew Thomas Furnish is scheduled to appear in court today on two counts of unlawful possession of deadly weapons on campus and three counts of unlawful conduct on public property.
Responding to a tip from a caller at about 9 p.m. Thursday, campus police visited Furnish's room. After an interview with police, Furnish consented to a search of his room. Police said they found a Glock .40-caliber handgun, a Remington 12-gauge shotgun, several hundred rounds of ammunition, magazine clips for weapons and a 12-inch knife.
The case involves "no known threats of violence," a statement from the CU police department said. The shotgun was disassembled and the handgun had external safety locks in place. Both weapons were unloaded, police said.
Furnish lived at the Kittredge Residence Hall complex, at 2400 Kittredge Loop Drive near Broadway and Baseline Road in Boulder. CU Regents have passed laws that ban all firearms from campus, unless possessed by sworn police officers. Students who hunt or target shoot can have their weapons registered with, and stored by, CU police. Furnish had registered and stored a rifle with the campus police under that program, CU police said. Furnish was taken to the Boulder County Jail, was suspended from CU and "has been excluded from campus property," according to CU police.
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This should be interesting as is debatable whether CU Regents have law-making authority.
For instance, state law does not ban concealed carry on CU's campus but the regents claim that legal authority.
I don’t know if this is a CCW case. The student wasn’t carrying them, he had them stored in his dorm room, which is owned by the university (i.e., the public). Is there a legal expert out there who can tell me if a landlord can prohibit their tenants from owning firearms? Does the fact that this is a public institution have any bearing on the legalities?
great points....
I wonder why he was taken to jail ?
I’m glad I won’t be living in a dorm next semester. It’s going to be a witchunt from now on.
This story has a huge hole in it, it should have identified his hometown.
And so the jihad against guns on campus begins anew. The weapons were stored, unloaded, and locked...doesn’t matter. This student’s now got an arrest on his record and may be expelled from college for exercising his legal right to possess firearms, despite no threats and no violence.
Colleges and universities will soon be encouraging friend to snitch on friend, roommate to inform on roommate. Count on it.
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College regents pass rules not laws.
No, but they gave his exact address and almost gave directions for any nutjob that want to go there. I'm guessingggggggg white-guy.
But I would be interested to know if he is from, say, the Cherry Creek area of Denver, or the rural community of say, Craig.
The logical extension of what we have in the public schools already. In fact, the public schools encourage little children to turn in their PARENTS if they think they might smoke a joint. Imagine the horror if mommy had a gun in her car!
If he’s appearing in court on two charges of unlawful possession of deadly weapons on campus, that sure sounds more like a “law” than a “rule.” I went to school in Virginia, not Colorado, but if I broke a school policy (like “no guns on campus”), I wouldn’t get dragged off to court, the punishment would be administrative inside the university.
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Looks like a personally reasonable guy. I just saw a picture of him on Facebook. A white guy in a polo shirt standing in front of the Louvre.
Looks like he got railroaded by a snitch and a pathetic college administration.
Had this guy lived in the room next to the first two murders at VT, he’d be a national hero right now.
Cops just “follow orders” like they did at Nuremburg.
I think the nuts in Boulder are way over-reacting. But given this week’s events, all academic admins are going to err strongly on the side of caution.
Thirty years ago when I was an undergraduate at the University of Idaho, if the police had conducted a search during elk season of the dormitory I lived in, they would have found an arsenal to rival the local National Guard armory. After the season ended, few firearms remained in the dorm. Most guns were sent home so you wouldn't have to worry about them being stolen.
ouch! But so true.
Does anyone know if his guns were confiscated—and if so, what are the odds of him getting them back in the event he is exonerated of the charges?
“Had this guy lived in the room next to the first two murders at VT, he’d be a national hero right now.”
If that had happened we probably wouldn’t have heard about it except on the page with the legals and classified ads in the paper.
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