By Niki Kelly, The Journal Gazette The most controversial bill becoming law this week is one allowing workers to bring guns to work if they are left in locked vehicles. Many businesses previously had bans on firearms in their parking lots and buildings, based on the rights of a business to secure its private property. [...]

Press Release from PRNewswire The Maricopa Community Colleges in Arizona, representing 10 schools, and the entire Hawaii University system, including its three main universities and seven community colleges, joined the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus. Each school system signed resolutions in support of keeping loaded firearms off its campuses to protect students, faculty and [...]

By Melanie Brooks, WLCY-TV When you pull into your workplace Tuesday morning, your colleagues may be testing out a new law in Florida. Carrying guns to work. As of midnight, July 1st, Floridians will be able to carry their guns to their jobs, as long as they lock them up inside their vehicles. People who [...]

By Ken Alltucker, The Arizona Republic Employers still will be allowed to ban firearms from the workplace despite the Legislature’s elimination of concealed-carry weapons permit requirements. Gov. Jan Brewer last week signed a bill that will allow U.S. citizens 21 and older to carry concealed weapons without a permit. However, the new law will not [...]

By Matt Field, Herald Argus The Indiana General Assembly appears poised to pass a law allowing employees to bring guns onto work property, even if the employer objects. Versions of the law would prevent employers from banning weapons in parking lots and allow workers to keep guns locked in their car. A final version is [...]

By Ryan Burr, NewsHerald.com A local gun storeowner believes the “guns at work” law will offer needed protection for people who might encounter threatening situations while traveling for their job. The Florida Chamber of Commerce and the Florida Retail Federation opposes the legislation, which allows Floridians to keep a gun in their locked cars on [...]

By Karamagi Rujumba, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh, PA – Two weeks before he was killed in the Columbine High School shootings, Daniel Mauser asked his father a question that Tom Mauser now considers fundamental to the debate on guns and handgun violence in America: “Dad, did you know there are loopholes in the Brady [Handgun Violence [...]

from ohsonline.com The most important safety and security professional associations, the American Society of Safety Engineers and ASIS International, joined the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence in an amicus brief filed this week urging the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rule that a 2004 Oklahoma law prevents employers there from complying with [...]

from The Journal Record A Tulsa federal judge’s ruling that held Oklahoma’s law restricting employers’ right to ban guns in the workplace should be upheld, challengers to the law have told the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. ConocoPhillips and several other businesses that filed suit against the law have been joined by the Brady [...]