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State colleges dodge half-baked disaster

FAYETTEVILLE -- Everyone knows NRA is the acronym for the National Rifle Association.

Fortunately, NRA also isn't an acronym for No Razorbacks Allowed.

NRA could have stood for such if the Arkansas Senate and Arkansas House of Representatives hadn't modified legislation set for 2018 to allow concealed firearms to be carried on Arkansas' college campuses by those fulfilling an "enhanced training" course.

The apparently belated realization that Act 562 -- opposed by all state college administrations but signed into law by Gov. Asa Hutchinson -- had morphed to allow fans carrying concealed weapons into collegiate athletic events caused the revisions provided in Senate Bill 724.