Students for Concealed Carry is once again hosting an Empty Holster Protest to call for decriminalizing licensed concealed carry on college campuses.
Students for Concealed Carry Announces New Empty Holster Protest
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A Survey of Pro-Second Amendment Groups
A lot of groups are out there claiming to defend the Second Amendment – but which ones really do so?
Texas’ Campus Carry Law Upheld By Appellate Court
SCC Southwest Regional Director Quinn Cox commented, “I am pleased to see this two-year-old law upheld. Once again, opponents of campus carry have failed to provide evidence that campus carry makes…
Student Activists must Learn to be Students of the Issues they Address
There is nothing more frustrating than seeing an otherwise well-reasoned op-ed destroyed by a blatantly untrue statement.
Texas’ Campus Carry Law Turns Two
August 1 2018, marks two years since Texas’ campus carry law took effect at public universities and one year since it took effect at community colleges
Texas Legislative Candidate/Former Professor Omits Important Facts
“Given both the success of campus carry throughout the Lone Star State and the political makeup of Texas House District 108, we’re confident in saying that Ms. Cattanach probably shouldn’t have quit h
U.S. Fifth Circuit To Hear U-Texas Campus Carry Case On Wednesday
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging both Texas’ campus carry law & the University of Texas at Austin’s campus carry policy.
SCC Challenges Founder of Everytown for Gun Safety to No-Holds-Barred Cage Match
Students for Concealed Carry is formally challenging Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, to a WWE-style cage match to determine the future of campus carry in America.
Everytown for Gun Safety Continues to Ignore the Facts
Everytown recently purchased a full-page ad in the Houston Chronicle and used that premium ad space to publish an open letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed by 41 student gun-control activists.
Report Of Two Handguns Left In U-Texas Bathrooms – SCC Comments
On Wednesday, February 21, 2018, it was reported that within a 24-hour span, two unattended handguns were found inside two separate restrooms at UT-Austin.
SCC, SCCF File Amicus Brief in U-Texas Professors’ Campus Carry Suit
This federal lawsuit, filed by three professors at the University of Texas at Austin, seeks to nullify Texas’ campus carry law and the University of Texas at Austin’s campus carry policy.
TACT, Rep. Joe Moody, & Others Rush To Blame Campus Carry for Texas Tech Shooting
It’s sad to see these types of misinformed, simple-minded statements coming from elected officials and Texas teachers’ associations.
Students for Concealed Carry Responds to Faux ad for Student Body Armor
In response to an online advertisement for bulletproof vests emblazoned with the logos of colleges in campus-carry states, Students for Concealed Carry…
Texas Students for Concealed Carry Opposes HB 234 and HB 255
These bills by Rep. Rafael Anchia (D-Dallas) run counter to SCC’s position that state institutions should be required to honor state-issued concealed handgun licenses.
Texas Students for Concealed Carry Endorses HB 631
The Texas chapter of Students for Concealed Carry is throwing its support behind Texas House Bill 631, a bill “relating to a public awareness campaign on firearm safety and suicide prevention.”
Texas HB 375 Would Have Minimal Impact on Campus Carry
House Bill 375 would allow any person age 18 or above owning a firearm to carry a concealed handgun on a Texas public college campus.
What ‘Rolling Stone’ Got Wrong About the “Fight Over Guns on Campus”
Here are a few of the things Rolling Stone and Ben Wofford get wrong or neglect to say about SCC and the campus carry movement, in the order that these errors and omissions appear in the article.
For the Last Time, Campus Carry Does NOT Lead to More Sexual Assaults
However, the argument that campus carry leads to more sexual assaults continues to rear its ugly head as states work to pass their own campus carry laws.
Almost All Texas Museums Allow Concealed Carry; Amarillo College’s Art Museum Won’t
This is just the latest example of Texas colleges using the “reasonable rules” provision of the state’s campus carry law to usurp the clear intent.
Why Are UT-Austin Graduate Students Holding Office Hours In Bars?
Why are PhD candidates, with their unreasonable fear of violent crime, holding office in a location where their students are likely to be the victims of violent crime???
Associated Press & Austin Media Miss Opportunity To Dig Into Campus Carry Stats
On the first day of any college statistics class, students are taught a simple principle: Correlation does not equal causation. This lesson seems lost on the media…
PBS Produces Anti-Campus Carry Propaganda to Accompany ‘Tower’ Documentary
The PBS campus carry documentary offers no insight into either the campus carry movement or the arguments that got a campus carry law passed in Texas…
What Happened To UT-Austin’s CocksNotGlocks Anti-Campus Carry Movement?
The protest dildos have long since vanished from campus, the social media accounts for Students Against Campus Carry and Gun Free UT have been mostly dark for months…
Latest Statistics Bolster Case for Campus Carry in Texas
Here are the statistics collected by Students for Concealed Carry since Students for Concealed Carry first started monitoring this data in 2015:
Campus Carry: Lone Star College Uses Sledgehammer to Kill Mosquito
The campus carry task force at Lone Star College in Houston has recommended the same legally questionable, hotly contested gun-free-offices policy.
Before Trying to Revise Texas’ Gun Laws, Lawmakers Should Read Them
This caused veteran Texas policy wonks to scratch their heads, due to the fact that carrying a concealed handgun while intoxicated has been illegal.
Texas A&M Students, White Nationalists Square Off on Campus
On Tuesday, December 6, Texas A&M University did its best to address the type of dilemma occasionally experienced by public institutions in free nations.
Blacklists Are Not the Answer for Ideological Diversity on Campus
In keeping with our organization’s long-held ideals, Students for Concealed Carry doesn’t endorse efforts to blacklist professors who oppose campus carry.
The Media Refuses to Learn the Facts About Campus Carry
Patch.com staff writer Tony Cantu declares, “Texas University Put On Lockdown Amid Reports Of Armed Man Later Found To Just Be ‘Open Carry’ Fan.”
Mother Jones: Campus Carry “Study” is Actually an Op-Ed
The “study” in question is actually the unpublished position paper Students for Concealed Carry debunked last week.