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Higher Ed Officials Urged To Work With Lawmakers On The "Guns On Campus" Issue

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The author of an interim study concerning guns on college and university campuses urged higher education officials Wednesday to work with him in finding a middle ground or face the likelihood that weapons would be allowed with few restrictions.

"I still want to work on common ground,” Rep. John Enns, R-Waukomis, said at the conclusion of a hearing on Interim Study H14-078, concealed carry on college and university campuses. “We’ve got common ground somewhere in the middle, whether it’s (the gun owner) has to take some extra training or have to be another certain age…But it’s there someplace. I just hope we can work on something and get it done."

“If not, I’m afraid (on campus carrying of weapons) is going to happen eventually,” he added.

The study was conducted by the House Public Safety and House Higher Education committees. Sens. A.J. Griffin, R-Guthrie, and Don Barrington, R-Lawton, also attended the meeting. Barrington chairs the Senate Public Safety Committee.

A similar study in the Senate – Interim Study S14-52 that was requested by Sen. Ralph Shortey, R-Oklahoma City – was assigned by Senate President Pro Tempore Brian Bingman, R-Sapulpa, to the Senate Education Committee. A hearing for that study has not yet been scheduled.

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