Posted on 03/20/2008 2:43:01 PM PDT by dynachrome
Should the legislature pass a bill allowing employees to keep a gun in their vehicle on company property?
Yes, it's their constitutional right to bear arms.
Only if the employee has a permit to carry a gun.
No. It's the employer’s right to set the rules on company property.
I see both sides and haven't decided.
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Current results...
Choice Votes Percentage of 1596 Votes
Yes, it's their constitutional right to bear arms. 857... 54%
Only if the employee has a permit to carry a gun. 366 ...23%
No. It's the employer’s right to set the rules on company property. 317 ... 20%
I see both sides and haven't decided. 56 ... 4%
This obviously would discriminate against people who use public transit or ride bikes. (/sarc)
Right. Your boss has no more right to search your glove box in your car parked on his property than you have to search through his wallet in his pocket if he's standing in your front yard.
Private property owners have control over what happens on their property. We shouldn’t diminish property rights even if the property is owned by a business. Better solution, go to work for a company that explicitly allows it.
My boss and I would sometimes leave from work to go hunting.
That said, Big Brother (a company or otherwise) can kiss my can.
This is a tough one. While the car is your property, you are bringing it on someone else’s property. I believe, if we wanted to just deal with the property right theory of this, the business owner does have the right to say what can or cannot happen on his property.
Don't companies have property rights?
Why the next thing one might see is something ridiculous like a property owner not being able to decide if another legal pastime is allowed or not on his property, like tobacco or or something.
Oh, wait a minute....
The vehicle is my property. I can have all sorts of stuff against company rules in my car that my employer will know nothing about unless I remove them from said vehicle.
(company rules prohibit racist stuff on the property where I work. Maybe I ought to bring in “Rev.” Wright’s alleged sermons and test that rule out!)
...the business owner does have the right to say what can or cannot happen on his property.
Doesn't seem too tough to me. ; )
Codifying it in state statute is an entirely different thing to “don’t ask, don’t tell”.
Don't ask, don't tell appears to be a politically correct way of handling a situation such as this.
I think the problems have come from fellow employees freaking out if they happen to see a rifle in the trunk of your car or a pistol in your glovebox while you are retrieving another item.
They were frightened because they drank the cool aid and consider guns to be evil.
Busybodies...
The company has a no weapons on company property policy,along with,no alcohol,drugs,etc. posted all over,in the bathroom even.
His truck was stolen out of the company parking lot while he was working.
In the process of filing an insurance claim he listed a handgun that was in the truck,all legal,he was fired.
Guess my advice would be, if you know the company policy,don't list the gun that was stolen,along with your truck,on the insurance form.
Never had to worry about a company searching my car.
I don’t think the business property rights extend into the car, overriding the employee’s property rights. Those two sets of rights are in competition, and both have to be considered.
Like somebody else said, if my boss comes to my house for dinner, I don’t have a right to rummage through his car merely because he’s parked it in my driveway. It’s still his car.
By providing a parking lot, you’re giving permission for employees to put their property there, but can make no demands of the contents. I think.
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