Swordsmyth
08-31-2018, 05:20 PM
Activists with pro-gun groups are applauding a federal appeals court’s recent dismissal of a lawsuit challenging a Texas campus carry law. The ruling dealt a blow to the three professors who sought to nullify the law on First Amendment grounds.
This is the second time the professors have lost the case in court. The suit was thrown out (https://www.thecollegefix.com/victory-gun-rights-activists-district-court-tosses-anti-campus-carry-lawsuit/), and the concealed carry law upheld, by a federal district judge in July of 2017. Now the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has upheld that decision, Inside Higher Ed reported (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/08/20/federal-appeals-court-rejects-challenge-texas-campus-carry-law), with the court stating that “none of the cited evidence alleges a certainty that a license-holder will illegally brandish a firearm in a classroom.”
Gun rights activists have applauded the decision.
More at: https://www.thecollegefix.com/gun-activists-praise-court-ruling-in-favor-of-campus-carry/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=idealmedia&utm_campaign=thecollegefix.com&utm_term=68804&utm_content=1
This is the second time the professors have lost the case in court. The suit was thrown out (https://www.thecollegefix.com/victory-gun-rights-activists-district-court-tosses-anti-campus-carry-lawsuit/), and the concealed carry law upheld, by a federal district judge in July of 2017. Now the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has upheld that decision, Inside Higher Ed reported (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/08/20/federal-appeals-court-rejects-challenge-texas-campus-carry-law), with the court stating that “none of the cited evidence alleges a certainty that a license-holder will illegally brandish a firearm in a classroom.”
Gun rights activists have applauded the decision.
More at: https://www.thecollegefix.com/gun-activists-praise-court-ruling-in-favor-of-campus-carry/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=idealmedia&utm_campaign=thecollegefix.com&utm_term=68804&utm_content=1