Alphecca

"While businesses testified the bill undermines their private property rights, supporters said those rights must be balanced against the safety rights of licensed concealed handgun owners."

What about the private property rights of the car owners? Just because I am parked in someone's parking lot, that gives them no right to search inside my car.

As far as informing them about the firearm, no way. The company would just make up a reason to fire you at the first opportunity. What the legislators need to do is pass a law that disallows searches by these companies inside employees private vehicles.

In my younger days I worked for a company that made very expensive alloys. We often used high-purity metals in these alloys. That company normally lost several tens of thousands of dollars every year to raw materials carried out by employees to be sold to scrap dealers. In one instance, a man was stealing a lunchbox full of electrolytic nickel (99.96%pure, 10-15 lbs/day, $5-$8/lb) for over 6 months before he was caught. Shortly after, the "We Reserve the Right to Search" sign went up at the gate, and we all knew who, and why, that had to be done. Help your employer bust these guys, and maybe they won't have to put that sign up.

Nothing dissuades an overbearing boss like an ass whipping. Next in efficacy is the absolute certainty that he will receive an ass whipping if he oversteps his bounds.

Trust me on this. Thirty seconds of understanding about an ass whipping will do more than 8 years of college and philosophy doctorates. Of course, they must be made to understand that when all is said and done it will look like their fault and their job is gone, no matter what happens to others.

I discovered this as a very young man when reason, morality, law and all other legitimate arguments failed to sway those that could see no personal downside. The downside must be personal. It cannot be a corporate downside, it must be personal to the oppressor. Peculiarlarly they seem to see the light with great clarity at that point. However, be damn sure you are in the right. Else one is just as bad as the one that would deprive you.

Assuming this applied to me, this is the way I'd handle it. Mine would stay in the car in a locked box. If in the chance they do reserve some right to search my vehicle, I would not be opening the locked box as I would not *ahem* have the key with me.