Yesterday, in a guest editorial in the University of Tennessee's Daily Beacon, Chris Cox, Executive Director of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action (ILA), criticized the recently announced gun policy for student-athletes at UT.
Cox stated,
This over-reaching policy prevents law-abiding UT student-athletes from hunting and engaging in recreational and competitive shooting. More importantly, it also prohibits them from owning a firearm for self-defense, a right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
Could this be a shot across the bow for UT? The NRA and gun owners have seen a number of recent victories nationwide in the Gun Rights War. Among them, Morton Grove, IL, and the San Francisco Housing Authority decided to rescind their gun bans. This is in the wakeof the big victory in District of Columbia v Heller.
Next week, the Supreme Court will hear oral Arguments in McDonald v Chicago, and a decision should be forthcoming in early summer. In an earlier article I reported that Mike Hamilton, Athletic Director at the University of Tennessee, emailed me on February 18th, stating,
The details of the official policy to be implemented July 1 will obviously be fleshed out by the University's General Counsel office before final implementation.
Perhaps the University's General Counsel will want to consider the upcoming McDonald ruling before they finalize their policy.
Would NRA bring suit against the University?
Would other organizations, such as the Second Amendment Foundation founded by UT alumnus Alan Gottlieb?
Are UT student-athletes, like Dred Scott, considered to be mere property without Constitutional rights?
What do you think?
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