COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The University of Missouri is countersuing a law school professor who has asked a court to invalidate the university's ban on firearms.

Royce de R. Barondes' case has the potential to redefine the limits of acceptable gun regulations under Missouri's Constitution, which voters amended in 2014 to make the right to bear arms "unalienable." But since his attorney filed the lawsuit in September in Cole County, the university's team of private attorneys has moved the case to federal court and sought a court order forbidding Barondes from carrying a gun onto campus.

Jennifer Bukowsky, the attorney representing Barondes, said that the university's "aggressive" approach is slowing down the case and making it more expensive. She wants to move on to arguing the merits of Barondes' case, she said, "but they're making it very difficult to get to that point."

Barondes, a tenured professor who teaches a class on firearms law and is licensed to carry a concealed weapon, claimed the university's rules against carrying a weapon on campus violate his rights under the U.S. and state constitutions, as well as a state law that allows public employees to keep guns locked in their cars.

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