Gun control

Week after Florida massacre, weapons remain daunting issue for US schools

As the nation prepared to mark one week since a massacre at a Florida high school took 17 lives, schools and universities across the country continued grappling with potential threats.

In St. Louis, police at Washington University on Tuesday evening confiscated an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and a handgun from a fraternity member.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton said there was no active threat, but the finding was at odds with university policy, which strictly prohibits the “possession, storage or use of firearms, knives, ammunition and other dangerous weapons” on all university property, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

According to Wrighton, the rifle was found during a search of the Phi Dela Theta fraternity house and a handgun was found in a vehicle, both of which belonged to the same student. Details on how administrators were tipped off have not been revealed.

Per policy regulations, the student was temporarily suspended and removed from campus "pending formal adjudication.”