Burnie, You didn't read this carefully. And as usual, Ifferd is armed to the teeth with opinion but his arsenal is empty of facts.
Conoco didn't fire anyone and NRA doesn't have a suit filed against them. They have called for a boycott, though.
I've followed this deal from the beginning. This all started a couple of years ago at a Weyerhauser paper mill in Valliant, OK. Security guards did illegal searches of employees vehicles and fired twelve long-time employees for having guns in their trucks which they said was contrary to a new company policy. The employees say they were never notified of such a policy.
Both Dems and Repubs in OK are very pro-gun and the OK legislature passed a law the following session that prevented employers from denying their employees their Constitutional right of carrying legal firearms in their vehicles. Then Whirlpool Corp. filed suit against the state of OK to block the law from going into affect. The OK Chamber of Commerce and Conoco joined in the suit claiming it created undue liability for employers.
The following session the OK legislature passed another law addressing their concerns and relieving both employers and employees of civil liability if a gun were stolen from their vehicle and misused. This was an effort to get the corporations to drop their lawsuits. Whirlpool and the State Chamber did, but Conoco then joined suit against the state of OK to prevent the law from taking affect. And that's where it stands. BTW, Halliburton and Williams joined also, but Conoco was chosen for the boycott because Halliburton and Williams don't have retail consumers.
NRA has sued Weyerhauser to get the fired employee's jobs back and called for a boycott of Conoco.
Count me in on the boycott. How about you, Ifferd? Would you buy Conoco products? Do you support NRA?
Conoco Phillips
