Student Handbook

Weapons, Fireworks, and Explosives

Dangerous and offensive weapons are prohibited on any university property. This includes firearms, BB guns, pellet guns, paintball guns, Airsoft guns, and all other devices that expel a projectile. Specifically, students are not to store any firearm or gun in their residence hall, apartment, or vehicle. They must be stored off-campus.

In addition, ammunition, martial arts gear, machetes, swords, spears, hunting knives, offensive knives, bows and arrows, slingshots, and body armor must be stored off campus.

It is unlawful to possess fireworks within the city limits. Fireworks are also prohibited on any university property. Specifically, firecrackers, black cats, bottle rockets, smoke bombs, rocket engines, cannons, or similar explosives (e.g., homemade pyrotechnic or non-pyrotechnic explosive devices) are prohibited on person, in vehicles, apartments, or in the residence halls.