When lawfare is turned in the other direction…

The Detroit Free Press writes:

Open-carry advocate sues U-M over campus gun ban

An Ann Arbor resident is suing the University of Michigan after being denied a permit to open carry a gun on campus.

Joshua Wade charges in the lawsuit that the university is in violation of the state and U.S. Constitution by banning him and others from being allowed to open carry on the Ann Arbor campus.

Wade filed the lawsuit in the state’s Court of Claims in June.

“Mr. Wade lives and works in Ann Arbor and is often near the U-M campus,” his attorney, Steven Dulan, told the Free Press. “He wants to make it clear that U-M … must comply with state law.”

Wade’s lawuit is the latest in a series of lawsuits against schools from people seeking to carry weapons on school grounds, including suits against the Clio school district and the Ann Arbor school district. In the spring, Wade open carried a handgun into a choir concert at Ann Arbor’s Pioneer High School. That prompted a series of policy changes from the school board banning all weapons from school grounds, which resulted in a lawsuit filed by another resident.