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pedalman wrote:

Briankey wrote:If an employer will not allow a CHL to protect themselves at work or in their Parking Lot, and something Happens to the employee, robbed, beat down etc.. why couldn't that employer be sued for not protecting an employee?.

And does anyone see employers in the future being tasked by Law to protect employees since they won't allow an employee to protect themselves?.

Probably what HB 220 could have done for us, had it made it:

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80 ... 00220H.htm

This is the history of the bill:
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup ... Bill=HB220

I'm not up on all the nuances of our legislative process. Therefore, I don't know if this is dead in the water, or if it will be brought up in the next Session.

If employers and businesses are not responsible for damage, theft or other lost property issues with vehicles in their parking lots, why should they give a rats about human life???

This is why I had mixed feelings about the "parking lot bill" last session...I did not like the conditions that would have required us to notify (in writing, at one point) to our employers that we simply had a gun we would have in our vehicles while it was parked in the employee parking lot...Much less if we had to notify them we have a CHL...

I do not like conditions, as a form of compromise, to get a semi-good bill that would have needed to be tweeked (if it ever could be tweeked) in future sessions, passed right now...

If anything, we are going to have a very interesting session in 2009...Hopefully just as successful as we have had in recent years...

Liberty wrote:

captkilowatt wrote:I have a CHL and my employer has placed that 30.06 sign at the entrance to the parking areas. This is not a restricted area such as an airport or a port. My employer has also hired uniformed county deputies with every intention of doing searches of employee property such as lockers, autos, and lunch boxes. The explination for the searches is to prevent theft of company property, but guns in cars was also added. My understanding has been that as-long as a CHL holder did not take his or her handgun out of the car and place it on their person and enter a posted company bulding that no offence had been commited with the gun in the car, but now I am told otherwise by my employer. Is my employer correct? If they are correct what statutes are they basing the oppression of my rights on?

You will be breaking the Law driving past the 30.06 signs as long as you have a CHL. Those who don't have a CHL, can not be prosecuted for leaving the gun concealed in their car.

Ironic isn't it...We would be fired and face prosecution, others would just be fired...

2009 cannot come quick enough...