BOULDER-
University of Colorado police arrested a student on charges of keeping two unloaded guns and several hundred rounds of ammunition in his dorm room, but they said the student was not known to have threatened anyone.
Matthew Thomas Furnish was being held in the Boulder County jail Friday on suspicion of unlawful possession of a deadly weapon on campus and unlawful conduct on public property.
His age and hometown were not available. A bond hearing was scheduled later Friday.
Furnish was arrested Thursday after police, acting on a tip, found a .40-caliber handgun, a 12-gauge shotgun, ammunition, ammunition clips and a 12-inch knife in Furnish’s room in Kittredge West dorm.
The shotgun was disassembled and the handgun had external safety locks in place, police said.
Police said Furnish consented to the search of his room.
Only sworn law-enforcement officers are allowed to have weapons on the CU campus, but students who hunt or target-shoot may have campus police register and store their weapons. School officials say campus police were storing a rifle for Furnish.
Furnish was suspended from the university and barred from campus, school officials said.
