Second Amendment Foundation Steps In After High Schooler's Vehicle Searched for Gunhttps://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/10/16/second-amendment-foundation-steps-in-after-high-schoolers-vehicle-searched-for-gun-n1230288?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=fc85d9fd0a377773055f1925941bbce485d3c69b5dace0c187ab5912dd7d0cd7&lctg=26251812Quote:
A New Hampshire teenager is suing officials in his local school district, including the superintendent and principal of his high school, alleging that he was singled out for a "coercive interrogation" without his parents or an attorney present earlier this year where officials demanded they be allowed to search his vehicle for weapons based solely on the fact that he's a lawful gun owner.
Jack Harrington's lawsuit is being supported by the Second Amendment Foundation, with SAF Director of Legal Operations Bill Sack noting that “being public about exercising your private rights cannot be grounds for being harassed and searched on campus."
“The apparent position of the school district here is ‘choose to exercise one right, give away another.’ That’s just not how it works. If simply being a gun owner is legal justification to be harassed and searched by authorities, what would stop them from submitting gun owners like Jack to searches every day? And what’s their proposed solution to avoid that abuse, that he sells his privately owned firearm?”
As detailed in the complaint, Harrington was removed from class back on April 24 and taken to the principal's office, where he was questioned about a conversation he had with some other students while riding on a school bus. Harrington, who was 18 at the time and a legal gun owner, told his fellow students that he'd been pulled over by the police while he was off campus and not on the way to or from school or any school sponsored activities. Harrington told the officer that he had a handgun lawfully secured in the vehicle's glove box, but as he told his classmates, though he was nervous, the incident ended without issue.
Somehow, the lawsuit alleges, school officials heard about the conversation and assumed without any evidence that Harrington might have a gun in his vehicle parked on campus that day.
A school resource officer informed Harrington that they “had to” search his truck and that the teen had had no choice in the matter, despite his repeated refusal to provide consent. The SRO allegedly told Harrington, “you can say whatever you want, we’re going to search it anyway.”
If they are telling you that they must search, they do not have the legal right and they know it. If they have the legal right to search they will not ask!!! 
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