EDITORIAL: Employer rules are beyond feds' reach

[JohnKSa]

It's not really about whether or not you can carry AT work, it's a lot more insidious than that.

I'm not allowed to have a firearm locked in my private vehicle while it's parked in the public parking lot out in front of my workplace. Sure, I can do it, but if I get caught, I'll be fired. And yes, if they ask to search my car and I refuse I'll be fired for that too.

That effectively disarms me from the time I leave my house in the morning until I return to it at night.

Of course, the common argument is that I could work some other place, but most of the places I would apply have similar rules...

 

[Jammer Six]

Even though my gun and holster are worn on company property, they're both my property, and my person is my domain. What I do within my domain is nobody else's business.

There are two separate issues there.

Hit your wife, even in the privacy of your own home and it's our business. Everyone's business. Hell, I'll take a personal interest. I'll call it a hobby.

An illegal act is an illegal act, doesn't matter where it's committed.

So no, at a minimum, you don't get a free pass, your acts need to be legal, no matter whose property you're on.

Breaking an employer's rules is a separate issue. Break the rules, look for work.

So, carry on. You guys were speaking of straw men.

 

[c_yeager]

Even though my gun and holster are worn on company property, they're both my property, and my person is my domain. What I do within my domain is nobody else's business.

Certainly. Consider for a moment that your employers property is also their domain. Why is your's more important than theirs? If you willingly put yourself into someone elses property then you have to play by their rules, this is a basic tenent of property ownership and if you happen to find yourself on the property of some jerk that doesnt want you to carry a weapon, THEN LEAVE.

 

[gunsmith]

what we really need

is a law that prohibits disgruntled ex employee's from murdering people!

leglislators, kept safe by armed security where they work, tell us to rely on crazed murderers obeying laws preventing them from bringing a gun to work and killing everybody.

the laws agaisnt postal employees having guns at work never prevented all those killings in the 80's....it did however insure that law abiding postal employees couldn't shoot back.

if you tell me to be unarmed you shouldn't hide behind armed security.