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[Wayne Price]

Appeared in the SPOKESMAN-REVIEW:
March 6, 2014 in City
In brief: Idaho sheriffs support campus gun bill

BOISE – Sponsors of the bill to allow guns on Idaho college campuses announced Wednesday that the  Idaho Sheriffs Association is now backing the bill, even as opponents delivered petitions with nearly 3,000 signatures against the measure to the speaker of the House.

“There was a pretty wide margin that were in favor of this bill,” said Adams County Sheriff Ryan Zollman. “The main reason is legal citizens should not have their right to pack guns taken away from them.”

The bill, which is opposed by Idaho police chiefs, all of the state’s public college and university presidents, and the state Board of Education, would allow retired law enforcement officers or those with enhanced concealed carry permits to carry guns on Idaho’s public college campuses.

Rep. Judy Boyle, R-Midvale, dismissed opponents’ concerns. “Unfortunately, a lot of people do not understand what that enhanced carry concealed permit requires,” she said. “They have the idea that we are handing out guns on the campuses to 16-year-olds, and this is not true – you have to be 21 or over, you have to have taken this class, and it’s an extensive class.”
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