ORIGINAL: jrbsr
In the August American Rifleman magizane page 52 theres a artical,
Where Big companys are wanting to fire there employees.
For having guns in there locked cars and trucks while on the,
Company property.
NRA guns for rights violators By Gene Mueller August 10, 2005
Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, says he will spare no expense or effort to expose energy giant ConocoPhillips for its anti-Second Amendment stance.
Look for billboard advertising soon that says as much. An NRA-sponsored national boycott campaign against ConocoPhillips also will begin.
The sparks flew after LaPierre spoke at a rally in Idabel, Okla., to support employees fired by the Weyerhaeuser Co. because they kept legally owned firearms stored in their locked vehicles in a company parking lot that was publicly accessible. Since the firings, the Oklahoma Legislature has passed a bill to prevent such terminations, but ConocoPhillips filed a federal lawsuit to block the protective measure.
This hereposter makes it look likecompanies arefiringpeople who hunt and/or own a gun. As much as I love the NRA,
that's not quite true. What the question being debated really is, is "do companies have a legalright to prohibit firearms from
being brought onto company property??"
I suspect that the final answer will be that they do indeed have such a right, since you do too! Every property owner has a right to prohibit firearms from being brought onto his or her property.
I personally see nothing wrong with letting your employees keep unloaded guns in the trunks of their vehicles when at work, (when I was in the Army, for over 30 years, I usually had one or more guns around!!) but some employers have policies against this practice! IF you display your guns in plain sight in an unoccupied vehicle, you are inviting some S.O.B. to steal same!!
The good ol' NRA is not adverse to using a little spin (read "propaganda") once in a while, just like the anti-gun folks do!