Sen. Steve Yarbrough, R-Chandler, requested the legal opinion several months ago. He got his answer late Friday. According to Attorney General Mark Brnovich, state and federal law do not prevent an individual with an Arizona concealed-carry weapons permit from carrying a concealed gun on private school grounds in Arizona. They also do not prevent schools from having guns secured on campus for use by trained employees who are not police officers as part of a school-approved program.
"I work with a lot of private schools and several of them had inquired as to what they could to do to make their campuses safer," Yarbrough told The Arizona Republic. "They inquired about what kind of personnel they could have on campus, and what kind of circumstances they could store firearms on campus."
Yarbrough did not say which schools had asked, or whether any would now allow guns on campus.
