FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 04/09/2019

CONTACT:
Michael Newbern, Assistant Director of Public Relations, SCC: michael.newbern@concealedcampus.org

UT-Austin’s anti-campus-carry groups seem to have gotten over it

AUSTIN, TEXAS – Less than three years after groups like #CocksNotGlocks, Students Against Campus Carry, and Gun-Free
UT brandished sex toys and filed lawsuits in protest of the University of Texas at Austin’s implementation of Texas’
campus carry law, none of these organizations attended a public hearing on a bill to repeal the controversial law.
Although 115 people registered positions on Texas House Bill 1236 (30 in support of repealing campus carry and 85
opposed to repeal), at the April 3 meeting of the Texas House Committee on Homeland Security & Public Safety, the
three organizations that led UT-Austin’s anti-campus-carry protests were not among the groups represented.

Quinn Cox, Southwest regional director for Students for Concealed Carry and a student at the University of Texas at
Austin, commented, “It’s almost as if—after thirty-two months without a resulting injury, assault, or suicide attempt—
campus carry is no longer a major concern on the UT-Austin campus.”

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ABOUT STUDENTS FOR CONCEALED CARRY — Students for Concealed Carry (SCC) is a national, non-partisan, grassroots
organization comprising college students, faculty, staff, and concerned citizens who believe that holders of state-issued
concealed handgun licenses should be allowed the same measure of personal protection on college campuses that
current laws afford them virtually everywhere else. SCC is not affiliated with the NRA or any other organization. For
more information on SCC, visit ConcealedCampus.org or Facebook.com/ConcealedCampus.

RELATED:

"Texas Students for Concealed Carry Opposes HB 1236 and HB 2280":

https://www.scribd.com/document/404367486/Texas-Students-for-Concealed-Carry-Opposes-HB-1236-and-
HB-2280

"TXSCC’s Notes on 'The Growing Crisis of Guns on Campus'": https://www.scribd.com/document/403649667/TXSCC-s-

Notes-on-The-Growing-Crisis-of-Guns-on-Campus

"Texas Students for Concealed Carry Endorses Texas HB 316/SB 1573":

https://www.scribd.com/document/403650052/Texas-Students-for-Concealed-Carry-Endorses-Texas-HB-316-SB-1573

"Federal appeals court upholds Texas campus carry law": https://www.texastribune.org/2018/08/16/appeals-court-

rejects-texas-campus-carry-lawsuit/

"Student Activists Must Learn to Be Students of the Issues They Address":

http://concealedcampus.org/2018/08/student-activists-must-learn-to-be-students-of-the-issues-they-address/

"Texas’ Campus Carry Law Turns Two": http://concealedcampus.org/2018/07/texas-campus-carry-law-turns-two/

"Texas Legislative Candidate/Former Professor Omits Important Facts": https://www.ammoland.com/2018/07/texas-

legislative-candidate-former-professor-omits-important-facts/#axzz5M150Mn96

"Everytown for Gun Safety Continues to Ignore the Facts": http://concealedcampus.org/2018/05/everytown-for-gun-

safety-continues-to-ignore-the-facts/
"Students For Concealed Carry Lash Out At Repeated Claims Of Astroturf": https://bearingarms.com/tom-
k/2018/04/18/students-concealed-carry-lash-repeated-claims-astroturf/

SCC's Amicus Brief in Glass v. Paxton (U.S. Fifth Circuit): https://www.ammoland.com/2018/02/scc-sccf-file-amicus-

brief-u-texas-professors-campus-carry-suit/#axzz5CzmeJ49g

"What ‘Rolling Stone’ Got Wrong About the 'Fight Over Guns on Campus'": http://concealedcampus.org/2017/03/what-
rolling-stone-got-wrong-about-the-fight-over-guns-on-campus/

"Johns Hopkins Report on Campus Carry Is Seriously Flawed": http://concealedcampus.org/2016/11/johns-hopkins-

report-on-campus-carry-is-seriously-flawed/

"A Refresher on the Case for Campus Carry in Texas": http://concealedcampus.org/2016/05/a-refresher-on-the-case-

for-campus-carry-in-texas/

SCC’s Oct. 2, 2015 – Aug. 1, 2017, Texas press releases and op-eds:
https://www.scribd.com/document/319141232/Texas-Students-for-Concealed-Carry-Campus-Carry-Press-Releases-Op-
Eds-Oct-2-2015-Aug-1-2017

SCC's 2015 Texas legislative handout (includes Dec. 9 - May 22, 2015, press releases and op-eds):
https://www.scribd.com/document/255815743/SCC-s-2015-Texas-Legislative-Handout