Creates an exemption to the offense of possessing weapons on campus or other educational property (GS 14-269.2) for a person on private school grounds who has a concealed handgun permit valid under GS Chapter 14, Article 54B, or who is exempt from obtaining a permit pursuant to that Article, if all of the following conditions apply: (1) the property in question is owned, used, or operated by a private school; (2) the weapon is a handgun; (3) there’s no conspicuous notice barring carrying concealed handguns on the property; and (4) the person(s) having legal possession or control of the property has provided signed, written  permission authorizing the person to possess and carry a handgun on the property. Makes conforming changes to GS 14-415.11 (concealed handguns permits). Effective December 1, 2025. 
Adds new GS 14-409.46A, adding protections for relocated law enforcement shooting ranges, to the Sport Shooting Range Protection Act of 1997 (Article 53C of GS Chapter 14) (Act), as follows.  Requires, for those law enforcement shooting ranges operating in the same location for at least twenty-five years, and that have relocated to a new location within the same county with no substantial change in use that: (1) the provisions of the Act be applied to the range based on the date the range began operations in the original location, (2) no local government can prohibit the range from conducting night operations for law enforcement training purposes if the range provides at least 48 hours’ written notice to the local government, and (3) no local government may require the range to comply with a setback line of more than 100 feet.  Makes a conforming change to GS 14-409.6 (sport shooting range protections).  Defines law enforcement organization and law enforcement shooting range in GS 14-409.45 (definitions provision of the Act).  Makes organizational changes.
Specifies that prosecutions for offenses committed before the effective date of the act are not abated or affected by the act, and the statutes that would be applicable but for the act remain applicable to those prosecutions.

Statutes affected:
Filed: 14-269.2, 14-415.11