If a state has strong laws that would prevent someone like Zimmerman — who had an arrest record and a violent past — from getting a concealed carry permit, tough luck.

These new bills would force states with strong gun laws like New York — where Zimmerman never could have gotten a permit — to honor the concealed carry permits of states with abhorrently low standards, such as Florida.

We stand with the American people in flatly rejecting the NRA's vision and replacing it with our own vision of an America where young people can go out to buy a pack of Skittles and can of tea in safety.

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The Brady Campaign opposes efforts to force college and school officials to allow students and teachers to carry hidden handguns on campus and in classrooms.

Introducing guns into a volatile environment where binge drinking and drug use are all too prevalent would dramatically increase the risks of suicide, gun thefts, and the number of gun violence victims.

The gun lobby's priority is to force guns into every nook and cranny of American life. Our priority is to prevent the loss of innocent life through gun violence. We are determined to stop gun lobby-backed legislation that would force colleges and universities to allow possession or use of firearms on campus. If these state laws were to pass, it would mean that students as young as 18-years-old could carry handguns with high-capacity assault clips to class or keep an UZI pistol in their dorm rooms.

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In Texas, hundreds of students rallied to denounce the gun lobby's campaign to push guns Into Texas colleges.