[taxcontrol]

I'm pro 2nd and pro business. The better path would be to require business to choose either an allow or prohibit posture.

If the businesses adopts an allow policy, then the business is exempt from lawsuits resulting from an employee's misuse of the firearm.

If the business adopts a prohibit posture, then they are subject to being sued if the employee is unable to protect themselves with a firearm while on business property.

[from occupied ga]

firearm while on business property.

And what about on the way to and from the business property? After all that's where this is going to be effective. Locked in the car isn't going to do anyone any good in a post office type shooting, but that isn't what's being addressed here.

[Dead Corpse]

I could settle for that. Makes sense on both sides.

Which means it doesn't have a chance in hell in todays political climate of widespread adoption.

[mr_hammer]

What happens when that employee has a 60 mile commute from work? Is that employee not being denied his or her Constitutional right because of the actions taken by the employer not allowing a person to have a firearm in their auto?

Looks like there is a show down coming between the social Conservatives and business interests.

[El Gato]

If the business adopts a prohibit posture, then they are subject to being sued if the employee is unable to protect themselves with a firearm while on business property.

In most cases it's not "while on business property" that is the problem. It's that stop at the stop and rob on the way home, or walking from your car to a restaurant, a movie, or even your apartment. By not being able to have a firearm in your privately owned vehicle, you are disarmed at all those times as well.

My employer recently changed it's policies, as written rather than as enforced, to not preclude having a firearm in your POV. Unfortunately where I actually work is not on my employer's property, and there they not only ban privately owned weapons, they do spot searches of vehicles to enforce that rule.