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AJSully421 wrote:With MRI machines and magnets, it is not the danger of a discharge, it is the fact that a steel pistol will forcibly rip itself form any holster and fly across the room, or take the person carrying along with it. There are videos of MRIs doing crazy things to ferrous items.

Serious question. Are metal detectors required outside the entrances to locations with these machines? If the magnets are powerful enough to propel a 200 pound man carrying 40 ounces (or possibly a lot less) of metal, then they can surely cause loose keys and other small unsecured objects to fly across the room as well.

I've only had one MRI, but I don't remember any grave warnings along these lines.

How about this for an ideal plan.

Require that anyone who carries a gun first completes a training course on the laws, proficiency test, and background check. Then allow them to carry weapons anywhere that LEO (including campus police) may carry.

If there is truly a place where something is going to cause a weapon to discharge (magnets?), or any discharge is likely to have disastrous consequences (labs full of high explosives), then no one should have a gun. Any areas such as this need metal detectors and armed guards outside all entrances.

If the materials in these labs are so dangerous, then the whole argument against campus carry (can't have dangerous things on campus) really just boils down to elitism. The elites that run the labs can be trusted with dangerous things, but the mere subjects cannot.

I am learning some really interesting things in this thread. A&M has a nuclear reactor, but guns are "too dangerous"? And do powerful magnets have the ability to cause negligent discharges (not sure I understand the connection on that one)?