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Captain Matt wrote:That would be a step backwards. With my CHL today I can legally have my handgun in my car at a school with no trigger lock.

And your employer can fire you for it. This bill would make a gun in the car a protected status, like if your Southern Baptist employer finds a Torah or Watchtower Magazine in your car and fires you for it. I don't have as much stock in this bill, since I won't work for any employer who does random vehicle searches. If they find out by some other method, then I'm not concealing as well as I should. If I have to use it, and they fire me afterward, they're definitely not the kind of people I would work for.

OTOH, carrying prohibitions are pretty much a moot point for me at the moment unless somebody slips in a change to the security regulations. I don't plan to make a career out of this job, but this isn't exactly a good time to change jobs, either.

Charles L. Cotton wrote:SB730 passed the Senate minutes ago, with one floor amendment. The amendment was proposed by Senator Ogden to deal with private property that is leased to an oil company for oil drilling. I haven't seen it yet.

Any thoughts on how this will affect people who use their personal vehicles for their employer's business? Outside sales reps or pizza drivers, for example. (Assume, for the sake of argument, that the person does not carry the gun with them upon exiting the vehicle while on business.)

CainA wrote:Dynamite? Who is this cat?

Well, ISTR some accounts of experiments involving building a portable gun with a breech strong enough to use dynamite as propellant. OTOH, "portable" in this case referred to trailer mounted.