Does your company policy prohibit you from carrying in your private vehicle?

[mzmtg]

I'm in the boat with the others who work on Air Force bases.

 

[Rev. DeadCorpse]

What kind of suit would you file?

USC. Title 18. Part 1. Chapter 13. Sect 241. Not that I am under any illusions that our court system works as a "justice" system these days.

 

[Blackcloud6]

Federal Employee. Cannot bring a firearm on to the installation. period.

 

[benEzra]

A business owner ought to have the liberty to dispose of his property as he sees fit, including controlling access to it. The employee likewise has the liberty to work somewhere else.

...

You can't have it both ways.

And whose property is the interior of the car?

 

[Spreadfire Arms]

ive driven by IBM on Burnet Road in North Austin and on their entrance sign onto their property it has a "no firearms" or something similar written on it. that is at the beginning of their property line, so i assume they mean nowhere on their property. there is no 30.06 sign though.

that being said i think most employers i've worked for have it written in their company policy that you can't even keep it in your car if it is parked on their property, however, i've never seen one that subjects your vehicle to random search or that refusal will subject to you automatic termination of employment.

i used to work for a place that said no firearms were allowed on company property (including your car) but nobody really cared and nobody enforced it if it was out of sight in your car (trunk or elsewhere). if its left on the front seat or in plain view (on a rack) then probably you'd get disciplined, but we knew who had a CHL and didn't really go out of our way to find out if they had it or not.

 

[ojibweindian]

It's a pretty easy thing to handle. Just keep your mouth shut concerning things like this. And don't come off to others as being somewhat of a whack job.

 

[Richard.Howe]

THAT is the most encouraging statement I've heard yet regarding libertarianism. The acknowledgment that corporations and government are interwined hand in glove (to the detriment of individuals) is one that more libertarian types should recognize

See, the only thing about that is, I have rights entitled to me by the Constitution, but I have no right to work for a particular company. I have zero entitlement to walk up to a CEO and say, "you must hire me because I'm an American and/or qualified."

I can definitely say something akin to that to the Supreme Court -- "you have to give due process of law because I was born here legally, am protected by the Constitution, and no one has the right to deny it of me."

As long as they aren't breaking the law, corporations can be as wacky as they want -- and often are -- and employees can sue, quit, and stop buying their product.

They can not, however, demand to be employed by that organization.

Take care,
Rich

 

[mons meg]

This law was passed to cover the nit-picking BS that some employers complained about in a similar law passed last year but which was put on hold by the courts when 5 major OK employers brought suit against the state.

Werewolf, here's to hoping that now they'll have their immunity clause, they'll be smart and shut up about it.

 

[hvengel]

The company I retired from does not allow weapons in secure areas. This does not include the parking lots. The company also has a two shooting ranges (rifle & pistol, trap & skeet) that I and others from work used to go shooting at after work as a "trap team". In fact the company used to give us funding to help pay for our trap team as part of the employee recreation program. This is a very large multi-national fortune 100 company with over 50,000 employees.

 

[JohnKSa]

How could a private company get the Police to search your vehicle?

They don't ask the police, they ask you to unlock it so they can look. If you refuse they fire you. It's not about the law, it's about keeping your job.

Just keep your mouth shut concerning things like this.

That doesn't work if they use "gun-sniffing" dogs to search the lot like they did in OK.

It wouldn't be such an issue if I lived 5 minutes from work, but I don't. I live 2 counties away. So this isn't so much about being unarmed at work--I'm not worried about being mugged in the company parking lot. It's about not being able to carry while I drive a total of about 2 hours and over 80 miles each day to and from work.