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I had a great "unofficial" discussion several months ago with our corporate security guy, a former MI6 agent, and generally swell guy. He told me the story of why our policy is so strict.

The problem with our company, is that at our main office, we have a lot of high-clearance fedgov stuff. They even have a lease of space on our roof at that office, with domes covering satdishes, so nobody can tell where they are pointed. Supposedly at top secret satelittes or something.
a few years ago, an employee brought an AK to go shooting with another coworker. They were ogling the weapon, in his trunk, in the parking garage. Apparently, one of the fedgov employees saw it, and freaked out because "THERE ARE TERRORISTS WITH FULL AUTO WEAPONS IN THE BUILDING" and sounded some kind of internal alert. After the investigation, embarassment, lost time, and other Male Bovine Excrement, the company basically, said, "no weapons on the property, those fed gov folks spook way too easily."

Fast forward to about a year and a half ago. They acquire our office, which is in Texas, with another office in SFO. In a seperate state then where the main office is.

[edited] Basically he told me to not sweat it.

My point for bringing it up is, there are often reasons besides legal ones why a company might want to have a policy about banning weapons. If I was at the main office, I'd expect to be searched, but not here. We're just a support and sales office here.