Georgia Colleges Now Must Implement Concealed Handgun Law

The University of Georgia and other state public colleges must now figure out how to implement the new “campus carry” law before the next school year begins.

Georgia’s public university presidents and police chiefs were strongly opposed to letting people carry concealed handguns on college campuses. Now that Gov. Nathan Deal has signed the “campus carry” law, it falls on them to figure out how to implement it before the next school year begins.

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Deal’s strenuous objections to guns on campus in a veto message the year before had many Georgians hoping the outgoing Republican governor, who is term-limited and plans to retire next year, would issue another veto.