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The Kansas Board of Regents prevents that which has already been prevented:

TOPEKA | Kansas colleges and universities must make their campuses weapon-free and conduct criminal background checks before hiring any full-time employee, the Board of Regents decided Wednesday.

The board unanimously approved the two policies at its monthly meeting.

The weapons policy calls for the schools to post no-weapons signs at the entrance to each building on campus and to include the policy in the student code of conduct and on housing contracts.

Kansas law allows concealed weapons, but colleges and universities can prohibit them on campus by posting signs. Without the sufficient signage, a person licensed to carry a concealed weapon cannot be prosecuted. Missouri law prohibits concealed firearms on college or university property.

The carrying of any weapons, concealed or otherwise, on State of Kansas property has always been and remains banned. Nothing about the Kansas concealed-carry law — SB 418 in the 2006 session, passed over the veto of the Vice-President of All Our Hearts — changes that. The line in bold is just simply false in this circumstance.

I wondered whether or not these signs were an empty, showy gesture. Now I know.