Lawmakers stick to their guns in requiring enhanced permits to carry firearms at colleges
Effort to allow more K-12 employees to carry firearms in schools also rejected
PIERRE – Two efforts to expand firearms in South Dakota schools were rebuffed Monday, with a majority of lawmakers on the House Education Committee saying the state’s laws enhance Second Amendment rights and promote school safety.
The committee heard two bills – one that dealt with firearms in public colleges, and one that sought to expand K-12 school safety by making more staff eligible to carry.
South Dakota legislators last year passed a law allowing public university students to carry a concealed weapon on campus, as long as they took and passed the requirements for earning an enhanced concealed carry permit. An enhanced permit includes a day of training. Students learn firearm safety, the state’s laws on the use of deadly force and they engage in a live fire exercise shooting about 98 rounds of ammunition at targets.
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