Campus Carry

UT Southwestern follows all federal and state laws that pertain to weapons – including handguns – on its campus, while striving to provide a campus environment in which students, post-graduate trainees, staff, faculty, vendors, patients, and visitors can focus on their studies, research, work and receipt of medical care with minimal distraction.

The possession of a weapon by an individual anywhere on property owned or controlled by UT Southwestern is strictly prohibited – unless it is a concealed handgun carried by an individual holding a valid license to carry (LTC) a handgun in ways that are consistent with state and federal law, as well as UT Southwestern policy. UT Southwestern property includes streets, sidewalks or walkways, parking lots, parking garages, off-campus leased facilities, and any facility over which UT Southwestern has control. It also includes UT Southwestern-owned or -leased vehicles.

The carrying of a firearm openly on UT Southwestern property is strictly prohibited.

Any LTC holder who carries a handgun on campus, including within a backpack or a purse, must carry it in a holster that completely covers the trigger and the entire trigger guard area, and maintain it on their person at all times. An LTC holder may not carry a partially concealed or wholly visible handgun on or about the LTC holder’s person, or intentionally or knowingly display the handgun on UT Southwestern property in plain view of another person, regardless of whether the handgun is holstered.

UT Southwestern strictly prohibits the carrying of concealed handguns in patient areas; campus childcare and playground facilities; and buildings with laboratories where greater than 50 percent of the net assignable square feet in the building contains chemicals, biologic agents, and/or potentially explosive gases.