How many of you carry at work ?

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Yes, I Carry at Work when possible, if my dress would make it difficult or impossible to carry concealed, I bring my firearm to work and keep it in my jacket.

Please note: I am blessed to work in a small office, with people I know and trust, all of whom know I carry, my solution is not for everyone! :D
 
I'm kind of stuck since due to my employer, I can not legally carry while at work or even leave a gun in my car. Kind of cuts severely into my CCW-time, but until I retire I'm stuck with it. :eek:
 
I'm not sure how the employer found out, but we recently (within the past year) had an employee terminated for a second incident of CCW at the facility. Some other employee probably noticed and reported.
 
Can't carry inside the building(s) per company policy but, our vehicles are safe from search, by law, and from time to time there 'may' be a firearm in the lockbox in my truck.

I am fortunate to work with a number of shooters and hunters, one guy is on the US Senior National Rifle Team, and I get my good share of conversations.
 
Like many others here, my company restricts firearms in the building. Due to our business we fall under the requirement by law to post the restriction to anyone entering the building. We have a big sign at the door stating the specific law.

I just keep it in the car.
 
I work in an office for a Fortune 100 company. The company has a don't ask don't tell policy regarding CCW. They do not ban weapons but if someone finds out you have it or complains, they will ask you take it home. They won't ask you to never bring it back, you just have to take it home that day. Best bet is to just keep it to yourself IMO.

I wear slacks and a button up shirt to work every day, sometimes with a tie, sometimes not. I wear an elastic shoulder holster with my Kahr MK40 almost every day. It is worn over my undershirt and under my dress shirt. By leaving my second to top shirt button unbuttoned I can literally slide my hand in and have a grip on the weapon very fast.

I can't afford to and don't want to be known for carrying at work so I will not use any sort of waste holster. Just don't want to take the chance of being known. I'm not even known as a "gun guy" at the office and I like it that way. With the shoulder rig I can go about my entire day, move, even crawl under desks, etc with no issues. :)
 
My work uniform is a blue t-shirt so I literally do bare arms at work. Now as for carry, I wish... If I tried to carry at my school, I'd be expelled and brought up on charges. Seeing as my job is being IT frontline customer service and help, I sometimes find it hard to believe the stupidity of people. A sample of some of the crazier things I have learned:

* No, it is not our fault that you're terrible at Black Ops.
* I have no control over your facebook profile.
* Creating a second ticket 90 seconds after creating one about the same problem will not get your problem solved any more quickly.
* If the email address you insist upon using is 50 characters long, then it will take quite a while for us to write it down.
* Three days is not equal two and a half months.
* It is not a crisis if you have never changed your password when the alerts were sent to your school email because you haven't checked it since you received your acceptance letter some time in early April.
* We do not have anyone on staff who can fix your fax machine.
* I do not know where the greenshirts/any tech you are looking for are/is.
* If the only information you give us is a nickname and that you have a problem with your account and no other intel, then do not expect great things.
* Donning this shirt does not suddenly give us all the answers.
 
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If I worked in a building that my company owned there'd be no issue. It seems that the folks that we lease space from are not as tolerant.

I have a customer that is one of the larger firearms/sporting goods distributor. They were wondering if St Louis is actually in Missouri and not in Illinios when they found out we can't have guns at work. lol
 
Unfortunately, my company's policy precludes carrying at work.
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same here...

The policy used to be somewhat nebulus (vague words under the safety section of the employee manual) and the personal manager would wink/nod and tell you to lock it up in your car.

Then one of our resident Bozos who liked to run his mouth and brag up how many AKs he had stuffed in his "house" made some veiled threats about keeping a handgun in his car, so nobody had better mess with him.

So the owners revised the employee manual and now there is a dedicated section with the clearly worded policy... no guns on the premises, period!

It only takes on idiot :mad:
 
Just a hunch...

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Many years ago at a bi-state agency I worked for in a large metropolitan area that has near impossible gun laws, I spoke to a two of the rare civilians that managed to get carry permits and warned them to "keep it down" that they had permits because if anyone other than those that had that privilege found out, a memo would be generated before days end killing their fun.

They didn't and it was.
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Hmmm...I can't help but wonder, did that bi-state agency happen to have the initials P.A. or W.C.N.Y.H.?
 
lol @ Larry. My employer forbids it, and legally I'm not protected from the prohibition against having it in my car. Most days it just stays home.
 
My observations have been as such; never encountered a company policy that sees through clothing ;)
 
I carry when and where legal.
My employer says "no", and they pay my paycheck, so "no" it is.

If a disgruntled employee comes in to shoot the place up one day, I will have bet wrong.

I hate it that I have to make that choice, but we all make choices.
 
I would have....

but the company I retired from was run by a bunch of new yorkers who would fire you in a new york second if they knew you had a gun on you. State law now permits employees to keep a gun in their car though for protection to/from work....chris3
 
really? some of you guys work in places that announce that no one in the building will be armed if robbed or shot up, per company policy?!!!!!! gives me the creeps. An old gunsmith informed me after I asked him where it was not legal to carry " &%#@ 'em how are they going to know? and anyway are you going to trust them to protect you?" I guess that is why I am self employed, dont like being told what to do.
 
My employer does not yet have a policy on firearms so I carry at work in our office. However, our major clients -- large companies in a certain industry -- usually forbid it in THEIR offices. We are negotiating for master service agreements (MSAs) with some of these companies and the draft MSAs generally stipulate that our own firearms policy has to be compatible with theirs. I find this deplorable and consider it an abuse of economic power.
 
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