Items potentially hazardous to members of the campus community are prohibited. This policy applies to the campus, university vehicles and at any university sponsored off-campus event.
PLU has a zero-tolerance policy for firearms and all guns are prohibited on-campus. Guns include, but are not limited to: air-soft guns, bb guns, stun guns, flare guns, look-a-like toy guns, paint guns and pellet guns. Students who are aware of a weapon on-campus are encouraged to call the Sheriff’s Department anonymous gun hotline at 1-800-862-4867 or make a report with Campus Safety at (253) 535-7441.
Explosive materials, including but not limited to, firecrackers, fireworks and other explosives, live ammunition, combustible liquids (except where authorized for university use) and flares are prohibited on-campus.
Weapons, including but not limited to: hunting weapons, swords; knives (e.g. hunting knives, switch blades, etc) and martial arts weapons are prohibited. Additionally, possession of any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as sling shot, and club, or metal knuckles, or spring blade knife, or any knife, the blade of which is automatically released by a spring mechanism or other mechanical device, or any knife having a blade which opens, or falls, or is ejected into position by the force of gravity, or by an outward, downward or centrifugal thrust or movement, or any pocket knife with a blade length longer than three inches, are prohibited.