The new “no gun” signs outside LZHS are unrelated to the recent lockdown at MSS and Isaac Fox, according to superintendent Michael Egan’s newsletter.

On December 10, LZPD responded to a report that a MSS student brought a weapon to school. MSS and Isaac Fox were put on lockdown. Later that morning the police detained the student, who was walking on Cuba Road, and found he had “two small, folding pocket knives, a utility tool with a small blade, and two BB guns,” according to Egan’s newsletter.

Due to the Firearm Concealed Carry Act (430ILCS66/65), which goes into effect January 2014, District 95 has placed the official Illinois State Police-issued “no gun” signs outside most of the schools’ entrances. These signs are completely unrelated to the MSS incident that occurred on December 10, according to Egan.

“These licensed individuals [who carry concealed] will be prohibited by law from carrying a firearm into a school building,” said Egan in his December newsletter. “These signs provide the statutorily required notice. The timing to the December 10th incident is purely coincidental.”