i’d kinda like to know why my office can say employees cannot carry while working, but any non-employee with a CPL can carry in my building.
And I would kinda like to know why it is that if you take a gun into an Academy store for maintenance and it is carried openly it must be carried by an employee to the sporting goods department but if I go in just shopping, I can carry legally (I have a Texas issued Concealed Carry license)anywhere in and around the store without notification of any store employee.
Stupid rules!
It's all about insurance and liability.
1) If they allow you to carry, and you are involved in a shooting on company property, they can be sued.
2) If they forbid you to carry, and you are involved in a shooting on company property, they can disavow responsibility since you were acting in violation of policy.
3) If they become aware that you are carrying in violation of policy, and do nothing, this can be deemed by tort lawyers as allowing carry, and they can be sued if some other employee is involved in a shooting. Therefore they must act against you.
4) If you are killed because you were unarmed, the company is just out the cost of recruiting and training your replacement.