Michigan college arms students and faculty with hockey pucks to defend against mass shooters

A Michigan university is arming faculty and students with hockey pucks to defend themselves against mass shooters.

The idea came out of a police training session back in March at Oakland University, where Auburn Hills police chief Mark Gordon suggested throwing whatever was available -- even a hockey puck -- at active shooters, reported the Detroit Free Press.

"It was just kind of a spur-of-the-moment idea that seemed to have some merit to it, and it kind of caught on," Gordon said.

The president of the faculty union, communications professor Tom Discenna, spearheaded an effort to buy 2,500 hockey pucks for 94 cents each -- giving 800 to union members and another 1,700 to students.

The pucks are also intended to help raise money to install interior locks on all classroom doors, and each black disc is imprinted with information that can be used to make online donations.

The American Association of University Professors union has donated $5,000 toward new locks for classrooms at Oakland University, and the student government gave the same amount.

The student congress also ordered another 1,000 pucks to distribute on campus.