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A person cannot be held responsible for things outside their control; it therefore follows that responsibility and control go hand-in-hand.

If business owners want the ability to control their employees' property over the employees' wishes, then they need to share a portion of responsibility equal to their control.

The ability to affirm/deny the right to a weapon in a car does not stop at guns or knives. Rather, it is the ability to exert control over someone else. If it is not a violation of an employee's rights to deny them self-defense within certain conditions, then it's also not a violation to deny them other things (drugs, alcohol, shoes, peanut butter, cats, books). You've already proclaimed your ability to control the car. What you choose to control is mere details, and what you choose to allow is now the choice of you, the employer, not the employees. In short, while that car is on company property, it is itself effectively company property.

Thus, if the employer has the right to affirm/deny the ability to possess certain things, it then becomes the obligation of the employer to enforce not only their own rules, but to ensure the legality of whatever is within their control. Employee has heroin in his car? Why didn't the employer catch it? After all, the car was on company property and therefore effectively also company property. Why didn't the employer do something about it?

For that matter, why did the employer allow the car that had a bad headlight out of the parking lot and back onto the street? Why didn't they tell the guy with the car that puts out massive quantities of smoke to get it fixed?

Because the employer doesn't own those cars and has no control over them.

Put the burden back on the employers in this argument. Once they realize that control over employees' cars entails certain possible legal liabilities... A great many will drop it like a hot potato.

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One man does not have the right to control another man's property in such a manner. If you don't want guns in your employees' cars on company property, then shut down your company parking lot and don't allow those cars on said company property. It's as simple as that.
And if you lose business 'cause your customers have to walk six blocks for lack of parking... oh well.