Campus gun measure killed in Senate

Legislation to expand access to guns on college campuses was killed by its Senate sponsor Wednesday, after college officials railed against the effort.

State lawmakers have worked for years to allow more people to carry guns on public campuses — they passed a law last year allowing full-time college employees to bring their firearms on campus. This year's bill, which would have expanded that right to part-time employees, was tabled in the Senate Education Committee, likely sidelining it for the rest of the year.

The Senate version of the bill, sponsored by Sen. Frank S. Niceley, applied only to part-time security guards. The House amended its version of the same bill to include all part-time employees.

State college officials — including campus police officers and administrators and the Tennessee Board of Regents and University of Tennessee college systems — were opposed to either measure.

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