Do you carry concealed where you work?

Do you carry a conceaked weapon into your place of work?

  • My company prohibits weapons and I do not carry at work

    Votes: 64 46.4%

  • My company prohibits weapons but I carry secretly anyway

    Votes: 15 10.9%

  • My company allows weapons or does not specify a policy but I do not carry

    Votes: 6 4.3%

  • My company allows weapons or does not specify a policy and I carry

    Votes: 39 28.3%

  • I leave my weapon in my car when I go in to work

    Votes: 19 13.8%

  • I work remotely and don't worry about carrying at a workplace.

    Votes: 3 2.2%
  • Total voters
    138
  • Poll closed .
I work in an "state institute of higher education" and am prohibited by my work agreement.

Interestingly enough nothing is posted anywhere and any Va citizen who hasn't signed that clause is completely within their rights to march across campus CCW or Open Carry and the only thing that can be done is to ask them to leave campus property.

At least campus safety is cool with me storing stuff there during the day for those times when I'm going to go to the range after work.
 
i too work at a state run higher education institution.


the professors would flip a kitty if they found out anyone had a weapon in their vehicles.

i regularly catch crap for my pocket knife
 
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i regularly catch crap for my pocket knife
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Eh, so do I. Have to keep explaining it's a cutting tool, not a ninja weapon.

Trust me, being criticized by the peanut gallery is the just the price you pay for being a free American. After a while the whining just sounds like static.
 
But in the state of GA, it is against the law for a private company to forbid its employees from having a firearm in their car in the parking lot because the castle Doctrine lists the car as an extension of the home (and therefore castle). You do not need a CCW permit for this law to protect your right to keep your gun in your car either.
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Interesting statement in light of my situation in Georgia. My company issued a policy statement about immediate termination for any employee having a gun on premise and they very clearly included vehicles. The policy even went so far as stating they have a right to spot check vehicles in the parking lot with dogs and expressly forbid guns even in personal vehicles while parked on their property.
 
thats the thing. it is a tool, thats all. if crap goes down i know the stat offers a HUGE life insurance bonus if you are KIA during work time...but im not going to put my staff and or the students in my center in jeopardy , my first concern is getting them away from the BG.

if i have to pull my leek in SD im at the end of a very bad situation
 
I have carried to the office. 9-11 I stuck a pistol in my briefcase. My office at the time was not far from the Pentagon, and having no solid information as to the level or nature of the attacks, I figured having a gun was better than not having one.

Back in the early 1990s, when I was living in DC and working at NRA in Reston, Virginia, I passed by the CIA Headquarters entrance on Route 123 in McLean less than 10 minutes before Mir Amal Kasi opened fire. I would have started carrying a gun in the car regularly, except for the DC thing.

But generally no. Even bringing a gun onto the parking lot is a fireable offense, and as of a few days ago a hand-picked anti-gun panel established by Virginia's anti gun speaker of the house KILLED the proposed law that would have overridden that.
 
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My company issued a policy statement about immediate termination for any employee having a gun on premise and they very clearly included vehicles.
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misnomerga, your company is in direct violation of Georgia state law. Not that I am advocating challenging them, but they could get into a heap of legal trouble if they fire someone who has a gun in their car. If they have that condition of your employment written in a document, any lawyer can take them to court and have that condition removed from the employment agreement.

They have to apply for special exceptions to get around that law. They MAY have done that, if the parking lot is walled and gated. if your lot is NOT restricted from outside access, they would be hard pressed to deny you the right to have a firearm secured in your vehicle.

Check this link:

http://www.envoynews.com/elarbee/e_article001111183.cfm?x=b11,0,w

Of particular interest is this passage:


"The employment-related provisions of the Act prohibit employers from requiring employees, as a condition of employment, to agree not to store a licensed firearm in their vehicle at work, provided the firearm is locked out of sight within the trunk, glove box, or other enclosed compartment. The Act, however, does not give employees the right to store or carry a firearm in company vehicles. Moreover, employers may prohibit employees from carrying or possessing a firearm due to a completed or pending disciplinary action."
 
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misnomerga , your company is in direct violation of state law. Not that I am advocating challenging them, but they could get into a heap of legal trouble if they fire someone who has a gun in their car.
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Cremon,

I think you are spot on with your response; that the company is in violation as regards the law, but they could and would make life extremely uncomfortable for someone they viewed as a "troublemaker." That could take place in the form of lousy reviews, lousy raises, assigned crappy jobs to where they could can you for some "other" reason that would fulfill their goal to get you off their premises. The only way a person in my position supporting a family could even think about challenging them is if there was some sort of monetary compensation for winning and that would have to be a mighty hefty payout at that because I would be blacklisted for sure.
 
Where I work, there is no specified policies on weapons. However, since I leave from there to go to class, I don't usually carry at work. I did install a lock-box in my vehicle to secure my gun when I go to campus, allowing me to carry when I have to go to class later, but since returning to school carrying has dropped off a bit for me.
 
misnomerga - I fully agree with you. It's not worth it for you to become a political martyr for the cause. And even questioning the policy lets them know you own guns.

I came to work yesterday morning (the whole reason I started this thread to begin with) and noted the USA today newspaper sitting on the security desk. They have a few copies for guests to read and one of the stories on the cover mentioned a bunch of CCW people in Washington state going to starbucks wearing their guns to show solidarity.

I mention the article and bring up the fact that more and more concealed carry permits are being issued nationwide to people making small talk with the guard, and he flashes me this warning glare and says "If I see a gun on somebody? Unless they look mad? I let em go on up - and they get FIRED within the hour!!" and he's got this serious look on his face like I am treading on dangerous ground for even mentioning "carrying" and "gun" in the same sentence.

I asked if that had happened before and he said "No, but I can promise you that WOULD happen!"

I didn't say another word but he watched me as I headed for the elevators, doubtless to see if I was printing anywhere on my clothes. I keep my gun in my car's glove box while at work and no, I did not and WILL not ever volunteer that information to anyone here at the office - least of all to Barney Fife there at the desk.
 
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least of all to Barney Fife there at the desk
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Each day you see him you should bring up something about guns - laws, holsters, your weekend trip to the range, etc. That'll keep him on his toes ;)
 
If someone went postal at our jobs and our rent a cops (like your Barney Fife) were taking incoming I bet he would not mind if he got some fire support from someone like you or me to bracket the BG.
 
Oh I agree. And our security guards are not company employees - they are contracted from a large, nationally recognized security company and they are NOT armed. I am also a contractor (independent), but I handle information security.
 
If my employees want to ccw while at work, they have to sign a waiver (including myself) releaving the company of all liability and provide a copy of their cc permit. Don't care if you have it in the desk drawer or cc. Under no circumstance are employees allowed to leave their firearms at the office unattended or overnight. You get one warning (or two) before your "priviledge" is revoked.
 
In Georgia, CCW permit holders are allowed to have their weapons on them if they come to the office to get their kid or whatever, but you may not pass the office with a concealed weapon and the rule applies to teachers too. I think it's like that in most states.

It's a nice killing zone for nut jobs. They KNOW no one will be armed so they go into schools and start shooting kids. Malls are off the list since people can carry concealed there. Though I WILL say that the public schools where my kids go (the elementary and middle schools) each have two armed, uniformed county police officers in the building at all times. I DO take comfort with that knowledge.

So we're down to colleges and public gatherings where the lunatics can feel safe shooting innocents with impunity.

Well - that and the offices where Misnomerga and I work.
 
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