GRAND FORKS, N.D.
University of North Dakota students living on campus have to store their guns with the UND Police Department, under a new policy banning the weapons from campus apartments. And police say they’re running out of space.
“We have space for 200 weapons and we currently have 200 weapons exactly,” campus police Capt. Tracy Meidinger said.
“We are in the process of building additional space, and for the short period of time, we have moved in a temporary storage cabinet,” he said.
More students are storing their weapons with police after a change in university policy that bans weapons in campus apartments, on campus grounds and in cars. It expanded the ban already in place for residence halls, classrooms, and the student union.
Meidinger said the increase in the number of weapons being turned in is a sign most people are following the policy.
“I have talked to several community apartment residents who have brought in their weapons who have previously stored them in their apartment, and since the policy change have now stored them with UPD,” Meidinger said. “So they are taking advantage of the storage and following university policy.”
