Have any states approved "bringing your gun to work"?

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I know that the NRA has been lobbying state legislatures to allow gun owners to bring their guns to work and leave them in their cars, for your safety when traveling to and from work and away from the office on business.

Lets face it, the nut who is going to bring guns to work and shoot everyone in sight doesn't care what the HR manual says!

I know at least one pro-gun legislator approves of getting this passed in Florida. I am all for it!

Have any states approved this yet?
 
Definitly not the Peoples Republik. I work at a school. A gun at work would be a quick ticket to the pen here.
 
Oklahoma has passed the bill, and it has been signed by the Governor. However, there are several major corps attempting to fight it in court. It is currently under injunction.
 
In Texas you can bring your gun to and from work and keep it in the car. The only exception would be unless their is a 30.06 in the parking lot (and I'm not even sure about that).

Other than laws regarding buildings prohibiting firearms do not apply to surrounding streets, sidewalks, parkinglots or driveways
 
I Am Confused

From reading these threads I get the feeling that most of you are against government interference and intervention. I agree with that too. But isn't madating that a private business must allow guns on thier premises just that, government getting their nose in our affairs.
 
Last I heard, it was through the VA senate, but I haven't heard anything more. I'm hoping it passes, because I want to be able to go to the range at lunch, without having to go home (30 minutes), go to the range (15 minutes from home), shoot for about 45 min, go back home afterwards (15 minutes), get back to work (30 min).

If I can keep them locked in my vehicle, that turns into: Go to range (10 min.) shoot for about 45 min, go back to work (10 min).

It's a lot easier to be gone for around an hour and five minutes than to be gone for two hours fifteen minutes.
 
As far as I know, Wyoming has never allowed workers to bring thier firearms to work. The state doesn't allow it because the state has never prohibited it in the first place.
 
By mandating that government-contracting private businesses test my pee when they hire me for drugs, they're already meddling in private affairs.

So if we're OK with that one, we should be OK with making the same private businesses let us protect ourselves, at least to the parking lot level.
 
I asked my boss if it would be alright if I brought my carry gun with me onto bussiness grounds but leave it in my car.
He said that would be fine but if I wanted to I could bring it into the office and he would put it in the safe he has in there and then give it back to me at the end of the day.
He is pro gun and is thinking about getting his carry permit soon. We have done some hunting together before so he is a good guy.
 
I took my gun to work for almost 40 years. I left it secured in the locked vehicle. Nobody knew or cared.

I know of no reason, short of working on a secure site (where you have to submit to search on entrance/exit like military posts, etc) where anyone would know you have a weapon in a car. That is, unless one likes to brag.

If security is an issue, purchase a Gun-Vault Mini, bolt it to the console or center hump, lock up your weapon, and don't worry about it.
 
Here's something else that confuses me sometimes. Most of you seem to want less government or want the government to do less, yet a lot of you make it sound as if you would like being soldiers or policemen.
 
Here's something else that confuses me sometimes. Most of you seem to want less government or want the government to do less, yet a lot of you make it sound as if you would like being soldiers or policemen.
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I don't understand the connection. I don't recall anyone saying that they don't think we should have soldiers or police. I have known plenty of police that think we have "too much government." We still need those who serve and protect, no matter what else is wrong with our system.
 
alaska has never had a law prohibiting carry at work, but recently a law was passed that outlines criteria a company must abide by if they wish to make employees keep weapons in vehicles. such as, whether or not the parking lots are secured, or open to public. i believe the presence of security checkpoints inside the building employees work in is a factor.

i need to research it some more.
 
My company policy prohibits concealed weapons in the facility.

In the past, when I have had to fire irrate workers and even have one or two of the more unstable ones removed from the premises by law enforcement officers, my 9mm has resided in my breifcase next to my desk in the office.

I can find another job, my daughter can't find another Daddy if some idiot wants to come in the plant shooting.

I didn;t broadcast it, nobody knew it was there except me, no harm-no foul.
 
I own my company, and I have never, and would never, tell one of my employees what he could or couldn't carry in his car.
His car is parked on my property, but it is his, and everything in it belongs to him.
I have no business caring about what is inside his vehicle, anymore that a walmart store would.
 
How About This?

I decide to open a daycare center. I start off with two dozen rug rats. I also hire six people to help run the facility.

When each person is hired, I go over the rules and procedures of my business. I note that no weapons, including guns, are to be brought onto the premises. I remind them of the liability involved when caring for children.

Nancy Smith is one of the gals I hired. She has a CCW and decided she wants to carry at work. I remind of the company policy, but she refuses to obey orders. I fire her.

Does she now have the right to file a complaint with the state?

Does the state then have the right to fine me and force me to reinstate Nancy or risk my license being revoked?

If you feel that governemnt can tell a private business, with no governemnt contracts, how to run there business, then you must be a big fan of eminant domain.
 
roy, if your day care business was opened in alaska, it is state law that carrying concealed is unlawful at a 'licensed day care facility', sometimes called 'licensed child care', and also lumped in with 'assisted living facility'.
whether or not the intent was to prohibit carry at day cares, assisted living homes, i do not know. the law itself is not clearly worded. but i would stay on the side of caution.

now, does the law apply to everyone or can the owner of such a business carry concealed? also unclear in the law. is open carry also prohibited?


lets take your example and go a different direction. suppose your business is a coffee/espresso cafe. you want to make it employee policy that no guns are allowed, and you also post signs indiciating your wish that your patrons also go unarmed.

you, being the business owner, are free to make any policy you wish. as your employee is free to find another job, your customers are free to find another espresso cafe, etc. gunowners are not a group protected from discrimination.

nancy smith does not HAVE to work for your day care. she CHOOSES to work there. she filled out an application. if you are any kind of boss, you have an employee handbook, and a sheet that your employees sign, indicating they ahve read the booklet, and are aware of all your guidelines, regulations, policies, etc.
it doesnt mean your employee will follow it, you simply have done your part.


when i got my ccw, my supervisor knew, because i told him. he is fine with it. at that time, there was a boss above him, i did not ever mention it to him, because he would not be okay with it. at that time, we had a handbook that explicitly forbid the possession of weapons in the workplace. and if i had a vehicle then, my supervisor would likely have encouraged me to leave it in the car.
now my new handbook doesnt even address a weapons policy. i think that is because it is a copy of the handbook our parent company wrote up, they are based in Chicago. their attorneys who wrote it probably never thought it would be an issue, since no civilian in chicago carries concealed.
one revision of the handbook (that was abandoned) had some strategic edits, to insert the adjective 'illegal' and 'unlawful' in front of each occurrence of 'weapon' (its an adjective, right? or a verb? i flunked english), i thought it made the handbook read easier.
 
Re:spacemanspiff

It sounds like we agree. I just think that government should be kept out of our private lives as much as possible.
 
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