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My employer chose to send notifications via email versus having anything in our employee policy documents. They will terminate employment and request prosecution to fullest extent of the law.

Redacted to protect the not so innocent.

To: <redacted>
From: <redacted>

Beginning Jan. 1, individuals in Texas may carry a handgun openly or concealed in a holster if they are licensed by the State of Texas to do so (Concealed Handgun License). The law further specifies that businesses may restrict the carrying of any handguns or firearms on private property.
<redacted> has chosen to display signs that notify individuals they may not enter <redacted> property with a handgun that is carried openly, as provided for by section 30.07 of the law. This is in addition to the currently displayed signs prohibiting the concealed carry of handguns as provided for by section 30.06 of the law. Signs will be installed in all wholly owned facilities soon.

Our top priority is, and will remain, the physical safety of our patients, visitors, employees, volunteers and physicians on the medical staffs. No licensed to carry holder is allowed to carry a weapon in hospitals or clinics, including employees.

Should a person enter a <redacted> facility with a holstered handgun displayed, an employee should:
1. Remain calm.
2. Note the person’s appearance and location to convey to Security.
3. Notify <redacted> entity Security or a Security designee immediately.
4. <redacted> Security or senior leader should address the person in a professional manner, reminding them of the 30.07 sign, and <redacted> stance on carrying weapons.

Please refer to the Code Silver policy for more details on how to act if a person enters a <redacted> facility with a handgun which is not holstered. Questions should be directed to entity Security or to <redacted> director of Enterprise Risk Management.

When do the metal detectors go up?

Have they posted 30.06 and 30.07?

Just curious. If they haven't then they can still terminate per company policy, but not sure if you'd be committing a crime depending on whether or not you've truly been given effective notice.

That's one effective way to pass the news to employees.

C-dub wrote:When do the metal detectors go up?

You don't get it, do you? The presence of signs means they don't need metal detectors. The sign makes a magical force field that instantly disintegrates all firearms within its building. /s

mr1337 wrote:

C-dub wrote:When do the metal detectors go up?

You don't get it, do you? The presence of signs means they don't need metal detectors. The sign makes a magical force field that instantly disintegrates all firearms within its building. /s

Those are really cool signs.

allisji wrote:Have they posted 30.06 and 30.07?

Just curious. If they haven't then they can still terminate per company policy, but not sure if you'd be committing a crime depending on whether or not you've truly been given effective notice.

Yes, the signs have been updated at our corporate campus and some hospitals.

I work at a chemical plant, and we had all signs up early.

Our employee policy is that we can't even have guns in our car in the external parking lot unless we register our CHL with them and register the model and SN of any weapon that we might have in the car.

I'm sure that lots of people probably do keep a gun in their car, since it's not illegal with or without a CHL, however I went ahead and notified the company. Some day they'll need my gun. By the time the guard goes and bashes in my window and pries open my locked box under the seat the carnage may be already over.