Guns on and off campus
The University of Tennessee is in the process of trying to ban legal gun owners that may also be athletes from owning legal firearms. Not just on campus but on their own property on their own time.
Is this restriction on a constitutional right for non criminal use off campus constitutional? Could it open up the state or the university to a legal challenge as to its constitutionality?
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:14 am
It seems a clear violation of the US Civil Rights statute, 42USC1983:
§ 1983. Civil action for deprivation of rights
Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:39 am
Amen.
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:55 pm
As noted above, that is “Yes” and “Yes” to the questions in the post.