Bill allows Texans to keep guns in cars at work

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Bill allows Texans to keep guns in cars at work
By JAY ROOT Associated Press Writer © 2009 The Associated Press
March 26, 2009, 6:23AM
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Print Email Del.icio.usDiggTechnoratiYahoo! BuzzFacebookAUSTIN, Texas — Texans who love guns and pickup trucks with equal fervor could soon have the right to keep them together all the way into the company parking garage.

The Texas Senate gave unanimous approval to legislation Wednesday that would allow people to carry firearms to work and then store them in their parked vehicles outside. Businesses could still keep guns out of their offices and company-owned vehicles.

But the bill, a top priority of the National Rifle Association, would no longer let employers ban guns in company parking facilities — as long as they remain locked up inside an employee's vehicle.

"Here in Texas, people like their firearms," said Republican Sen. Glenn Hegar, author of the legislation. State law already allows Texans to carry concealed handguns in their vehicles, with some restrictions.

The bill drew criticism from business leaders, who called it an affront to property rights. Bill Hammond, president of the Texas Association of Business, warned that it could also spark more workplace gun crimes — particularly at a time when more and more people are losing their jobs...DUH!

oaky, the ...DUH! was mine.


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/6343591.html

[YOY]

1. "Here in Texas, people like their firearms,"

No shit Glenn.

[gratuitous]

14. I like my X-box, too

But I don't need to have it with me 24-7. I think this goes a little beyond "like" to something else.

And dang, with all these guns and their express lane death penalty, you'd think that there would be absolutely no crime at all in Texas. I wonder why that's not the case?

[YOY]

17. Hush chile...

We mustn't "mess with Texas." Things there are perfection.

[marmar]

2. You better not park in the wrong space.......

:scared:

[aikoaiko]

3. This is a reasonable compromise. If an employer allows employees or public to park their cars ....

... their property, then they shouldn't be able to dictate any legally possessed items in the car.

[sharp_stick]

4. Excellent

Now I know exactly where to go steal guns to smuggle across to Mexico. I have no problem with people owning, keeping and using guns but shit, they have to be secured.

This is almost as stupid as the guy keeping one under his pillow, for "protection", getting all sad when his 5 year old blows his own head off playing with it.

[michreject]

16. Ah!! A self confessed thief

World could do without a thief.

[hobbit709]

5. Now thieves wil know where to easily steal guns.

[marmar]

6. Very true......

n/t

[Statistical]

7. How?

1000 cars in parking lot. On average about 5% of population has a CCW. Less than that carry to everyday.

At any given time maybe 30 to 40 of 1000 vehicles has a firearm in it.
Why randomly break into cars in public parking lot in daylight hoping to find firearm?
Why not just break into a house durring day when everyone is at work?

[hobbit709]

8. How many will be dumb enough to leave it in plain sight?

Just like how many people leave their wallets in plain sight in the car while jogging.

[ThomWV]

13. I'd bet you a good portion of the glove compartments everywhere have pistols in them

[slackmaster]

9. This analogous to allowing workers to keep pornography in their cars, out of sight

When company policy prohibits bringing it into the building.

I would like to see something like this implemented in California. My company has a strict no-weapons policy at work. Someone freaked out recently because I was carrying a small lock-blade folding knife (as has been my habit since I was 15 years old). Supervisor asked me to stop carrying it, so I complied. But in each of the break rooms there is a set of full-sized kitchen knives. :crazy:

Sometimes I like to stop off at a shooting range on the way home from work. I avoid many miles of extra driving if I bring my gun to work. But because of the no-weapons policy, I technically have to park my vehicle out on the street instead of the company parking lot. It's ridiculous.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. I wonder what happened to all those property rights activists? Seems like if I own the property, I

have the right to tell people what they can/cannot bring on it.

[MadHound]

11. Once again, Texas and the NRA are conspiring to violate people's private property rights

I just love how the NRA is willing to sacrifice everybody else's rights.

As a business owner, I should have the right to control what objects are on my property, but to the NRA and gun nuts, all other rights are subservient to the second amendment. Sad, pathetic.

[Javaman]

12. Good thing, because you never know when those Ford 150's will have a gang fight

in the parking garage.

[Swede]

15. Being a foreman laying off people would be a lot more fun now,in Texas.