CU student arrested after police find guns in room

Rocky Mountain News

Published April 20, 2007 at midnight

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A University of Colorado student has been arrested after campus police said they discovered two guns, a knife and several hundred rounds of ammunition in his dormitory room.

Matthew Thomas Furnish is scheduled to appear in court today on two counts of unlawful possession of deadly weapons on campus and three counts of unlawful conduct on public property.

Responding to a tip from a caller at about 9 p.m. Thursday, campus police visited Furnish's room. After an interview with police, Furnish consented to a search of his room. Police said they found a Glock .40-caliber handgun, a Remington 12-gauge shotgun, several hundred rounds of ammunition, magazine clips for weapons and a 12-inch knife.

The case involves "no known threats of violence," a statement from the CU police department said. The shotgun was disassembled and the handgun had external safety locks in place. Both weapons were unloaded, police said.

Furnish lived at the Kittredge Residence Hall complex, at 2400 Kittredge Loop Drive near Broadway and Baseline Road in Boulder.

CU Regents have passed laws that ban all firearms from campus, unless possessed by sworn police officers. Students who hunt or target shoot can have their weapons registered with, and stored by, CU police.

Furnish had registered and stored a rifle with the campus police under that program, CU police said.

Furnish was taken to the Boulder County Jail, was suspended from CU and "has been excluded from campus property," according to CU police.

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