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Guns blaze again in committee, but no progress on campus carry

The Senate Judiciary Committee repeated a battle on gun legislation that was waged Tuesday night with another no-decision outcome.
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Guns and more guns on the Senate agenda

Sen. Trent Garner, on a 21-10 vote, sent the campus carry bill back to Senate committee. And he has more legislation to further the carrying of weapons in Arkansas.
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Episcopal diocese of Arkansas opposes campus carry

Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas opposes the campus carry bill.

NRA opposes campus carry bill as amended

The NRA, which calls most shots on gun bills in Arkansas, now opposes the campus carry bill primarily because it adds an additional training requirement before anyone 25 and older can take a concealed weapon on a public college campus.
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Campus carry question: What about K-12 schools on college campuses?

How will conflicts between the campus carry bill and the ban on guns at K-12 schools be resolved?

Campus gun bill clears committee

The so-called compromise amendment that will allow anyone 25 or older with a training certificate carry a concealed weapon on public college campuses was approved in a Senate committee this afternoon.
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Campus carry deal: Anyone over 25 can carry, with training

Sen. Trent Garner, the Tom Cotton employee and clone who joined the Arkansas Senate this year, has proposed an amendment to the campus carry bill that would open campuses to anyone 25 or older with a concealed carry permit if they received an additional 16 hours of  training.

Trumpian politics at the Capitol; gun bill revenge from Charlie Collins

Rep. Greg Leding reports on Twitter that Rep. Charlie Collins just had the House vote down a higher education appropriation in retaliation for Senate amendment added to his campus carry bill.
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UPDATE: Campus carry bill amended by Senate to require training

The Senate this morning added an amendment to Rep. Charlie Collins campus carry bill that incorporates the effort denied in committee yesterday to require a 16-hour additional training period before university staff members with concealed carry permits may take the weapons on campus.

University gun bill has church complication, UA faculty member writes

Rep. Charlie Collins' bill to mandate that universities allow staff with permits to carry concealed weapons on campus will be before a Senate committee Wednesday and one opponent, John Pijanoski, chair of the Campus Faculty Senate at the University of Arkansas, has written about another problem with the legislation (apart from near universal campus opposition.)
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Legislators trolling Facebook? Some UA faculty fear "chilling effect" on political speech

Multiple University of Arkansas at Fayetteville faculty members have told us that they have been warned about legislators monitoring Facebook looking for faculty members who make political posts between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Moms Demand Action: campus carry is a "solution without a problem"

On Capitol View over the weekend, Rep. Michelle Gray, a backer of Charlie Collins bill to force public universities and colleges to allow staff members to carry concealed handguns, faced off against Austin Bailey, director of the Arkansas Chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a citizens group which opposes the bill.
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