Posted 4:59 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, 2012
Deer hunting season is here. With Wisconsin being an active hunting state, it’s no surprise some students attending UW-L hunt and need a place to store their weapons, says Scott Rohde, chief of UW-L University Police. There are rules against keeping weapons in residence halls, but they can be stored on campus.
-by UW-L student Louie Schuth
Deer hunting season is here. With Wisconsin being an active hunting state, it’s no surprise some students attending UW-L hunt and need a place to store their weapons, says Scott Rohde, chief of UW-L University Police. There are rules against keeping weapons in residence halls, but they can be stored on campus.
While students can legally store their guns in the trunk of their car in a campus parking lot, most don’t because it can damage the weapons, says Rohde. But they can store them with campus police.
To do this, students can go to the University Police at 525 East Ave. N. Students fill out a form with the make, model, and serial number of the weapon, along with personal contact information.
To check weapons in or out, students simply show identification. Weapons are stored in the basement of the police building in large, secure lockers. Weapons can be checked out 24/7.
The service is only for students living in residence halls because the university doesn’t want employees or students living off campus to bring weapons to campus for storage.
“We’re glad to provide this service. The students who store weapons always have had really good results with it,” Rohde says.
Rohde says the service is popular. He says the number of students storing weapons varies year-to-year because of changing population of hunters. He estimates that about 30 students use the service each year.
Most students who take advantage of the service do so for hunting weapons, but that’s not all that can be stored with University Police. Rohde says about 80 percent of weapons stored are long firearms, 10 percent are bows, with the rest being martial arts weapons.
Deer hunting season is here. With Wisconsin being an active hunting state, it’s no surprise some students attending UW-L hunt and need a place to store their weapons, says Scott Rohde, chief of UW-L University Police. There are rules against keeping weapons in residence halls, but they can be stored on campus.
While students can legally store their guns in the trunk of their car in a campus parking lot, most don’t because it can damage the weapons, says Rohde. But they can store them with campus police.
To do this, students can go to the University Police at 525 East Ave. N. Students fill out a form with the make, model, and serial number of the weapon, along with personal contact information.
To check weapons in or out, students simply show identification. Weapons are stored in the basement of the police building in large, secure lockers. Weapons can be checked out 24/7.
The service is only for students living in residence halls because the university doesn’t want employees or students living off campus to bring weapons to campus for storage.
“We’re glad to provide this service. The students who store weapons always have had really good results with it,” Rohde says.
Rohde says the service is popular. He says the number of students storing weapons varies year-to-year because of changing population of hunters. He estimates that about 30 students use the service each year.
Most students who take advantage of the service do so for hunting weapons, but that’s not all that can be stored with University Police. Rohde says about 80 percent of weapons stored are long firearms, 10 percent are bows, with the rest being martial arts weapons.