CU Student arrested for firearms in dorm room

Um, somebody help me out here. I was understanding the regents law was not enforceable.

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Matthew Thomas Furnish is scheduled to appear in court today on two counts of unlawful possession of deadly weapons on campus and three counts of unlawful conduct on public property.

CU student arrested after police find guns in room
By Rocky Mountain News
April 20, 2007

A University of Colorado student has been arrested after campus police said they discovered two guns, a knife and several hundred rounds of ammunition in his dormitory room.

Matthew Thomas Furnish is scheduled to appear in court today on two counts of unlawful possession of deadly weapons on campus and three counts of unlawful conduct on public property.

Responding to a tip from a caller at about 9 p.m. Thursday, campus police visited Furnish's room. After an interview with police, Furnish consented to a search of his room. Police said they found a Glock .40-caliber handgun, a Remington 12-gauge shotgun, several hundred rounds of ammunition, magazine clips for weapons and a 12-inch knife.

The case involves "no known threats of violence," a statement from the CU police department said. The shotgun was disassembled and the handgun had external safety locks in place. Both weapons were unloaded, police said.

Furnish lived at the Kittredge Residence Hall complex, at 2400 Kittredge Loop Drive near Broadway and Baseline Road in Boulder.

CU Regents have passed laws that ban all firearms from campus, unless possessed by sworn police officers. Students who hunt or target shoot can have their weapons registered with, and stored by, CU police.

Furnish had registered and stored a rifle with the campus police under that program, CU police said.

Furnish was taken to the Boulder County Jail, was suspended from CU and "has been excluded from campus property," according to CU police.

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18-12-105.5. Unlawfully carrying a weapon - unlawful possession of weapons - school, college, or university grounds.
(1) A person commits a class 6 felony if such person knowingly and unlawfully and without legal authority carries, brings, or has in such person's possession a deadly weapon as defined in section 18-1-901 (3) (e) in or on the real estate and all improvements erected thereon of any public or private elementary, middle, junior high, high, or vocational school or any public or private college, university, or seminary, except for the purpose of presenting an authorized public demonstration or exhibition pursuant to instruction in conjunction with an organized school or class, for the purpose of carrying out the necessary duties and functions of an employee of an educational institution that require the use of a deadly weapon, or for the purpose of participation in an authorized extracurricular activity or on an athletic team.

(2) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2000, p. 709, § 45, effective July 1, 2000.)

(3) It shall not be an offense under this section if:

(a) The weapon is unloaded and remains inside a motor vehicle while upon the real estate of any public or private college, university, or seminary; or

(b) The person is in that person's own dwelling or place of business or on property owned or under that persons's control at the time of the act of carrying; or

(c) The person is in a private automobile or other private means of conveyance and is carrying a weapon for lawful protection of that person's or another's person or property while traveling; or

(d) The person, at the time of carrying a concealed weapon, held a valid written permit to carry a concealed weapon issued pursuant to section 18-12-105.1, as said section existed prior to its repeal; except that it shall be an offense under this section if the person was carrying a concealed handgun in violation of the provisions of section 18-12-214 (3); or

(d.5) The weapon involved was a handgun and the person held a valid permit to carry a concealed handgun or a temporary emergency permit issued pursuant to part 2 of this article; except that it shall be an offense under this section if the person was carrying a concealed handgun in violation of the provisions of section 18-12-214 (3); or

(e) The person is a peace officer, as described in section 16-2.5-101, C.R.S., when carrying a weapon in conformance with the policy of the employing agency as provided in section 16-2.5-101 (2), C.R.S.; or

(f) and (g) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2003, p. 1626, § 51, effective August 6, 2003.)

(h) The person has possession of the weapon for use in an educational program approved by a school which program includes, but shall not be limited to, any course designed for the repair or maintenance of weapons.