Mississippi public schools vote to update gun policies, paving way for staff to carry firearms on campus

Mississippi education officials have voted to update a more than 30-year-old policy regarding weapons on school campuses that could clear the way for staff and employees to carry guns on campus. 

Following killings at Uvalde's Robb Elementary School, a July Fourth parade near Chicago and an Indiana mall, the Mississippi Board of Education voted last week to update a 1990 internal policy that prohibited anyone other than law enforcement from carrying guns on public school campuses.

The update removed language from the old policy, which the department said conflicted with Mississippi's 2011 enhanced conceal carry law. It also allowed schools to create their own policies regarding allowing guns on campus.