People might think guns aren't allowed on college campuses, but KCTV5 News traveled to the University of Kansas, the University of Missouri, Kansas State University and Johnson County Community College to examine security and found that "No Guns" doesn't always mean no guns.

Campus police officers carry guns, drive fully equipped squad cars and patrol hundreds of acres to protect college students, and the officers all agree that when it comes to guns on campus, they're the only ones authorized to carry them.

But KCTV5 News found that at MU, students are allowed to bring their weapons to campus under one condition, they have to check them in and out with campus police.

"The intake process is the individual would bring it into the lobby of the police department, at which point a supervisor will come forward, bring them a check-in form, which will give information about the person checking in the gun and also the gun itself as far make, model, serial number, so that that can be check in the system to make sure it's not stolen," said Capt. Brian Weimer, of the MU Police Department.

MU police wouldn't let KCTV5 see the storage facility, but they said the guns were secure.

When students check them out, they're instructed to immediately leave campus with their weapons.

Police said it gives students an alternative to hiding guns in dorm rooms or cars, but KCTV5 News couldn't find another local school that allowed it. Even rural K-State said it was not worth the risk.

"I feel that in a university setting, environment, that's just not a place for weapons," said Chief Ronnie Grice, of the K-State Police Department.

MU said it has never had a problem with the gun storage program. In fact, MU campus police reports obtained by KCTV5 showed 11 campus weapons violations in 2006 and 2007, none of them involving students who stored them.

Hunters like KU junior Eric Stein like the gun storage idea. It's not an option for him. KU doesn't allow it, but he said no student should fear law-abiding gun owners on any campus.

KCTV5 News contacted every school in the Big 12 and found four others schools allowed campus gun storage.

Texas Tech, though, stopped the practice last year. The police chief said they felt it was in the best interests of their students to keep guns off campus.