Gun Laws, Campus Policies Perplex College Sports Programs

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In the wake of shootings at the University of Alabama, New Mexico State University and  Michigan State, as well as one involving a Louisiana State student-athlete, The Associated Press analyzed more than a dozen schools participating in NCAA tournaments and found a wide range of policies that govern guns at those schools and uneven efforts to regulate them.

As reported by AP national writer Eddie Pells and colleagues, the NCAA has no written gun policy, other than to ban guns at its championship events, calling it a law-enforcement issue. "That means rules for sports teams, if they exist, are derived from a mixture of state laws, university policies and, in some cases, supplements to those policies in the student-athlete handbooks," Pells wrote. "In some instances, coaches implement their own team rules. But as cases across the country have shown — just in the past four months alone — there is confusion, mixed messages and what some perceive as seat-of-the-pants decision-making on issues that can have life-or-death consequences."

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