Salty1 wrote:Private Property rights, I do not want anybody telling me what is allowed within my property unless it has a verifiable negative effect or is dangerous to those around me. People are not forced to work for a specific company, If they do not like the company rules then go work someplace else they have the freedom to do that. There are certain things that we have the power to change others we just need to buck up and live with.
My understanding of CHL and PC § 30.06 is that a CHL holder is allowed under the law to disarm and secure their weapon in their vehicle,
in the parking lot, before entering the 30.06 posted premises.... ...."premises" meaning "the building(s)." My further understanding is that 30.06 applies only to buildings, not the accessible parking lots surrounding those buildings.
Now, given that, if I am a client about to enter the 30.06 posted building of a vendor, and I leave my gun secured in my vehicle, how exactly have I violated that company's private property rights? The answer? I haven't. I am in compliance with the law.
Let's extrapolate that to an employee of that same company who is in possession of a CHL... The company's building is posted 30.06. The employee may not enter with their weapon,
regardless of whatever policy is stated in the employee manual. So, if the employee secures their weapon in their car, in the same parking lot I used, how have they violated the employer's private property rights? The answer? They haven't.... ...not anymore than I did in the preceding paragraph.
Now, HR policy may forbid the employee to have a gun in their car, but that is a separate issue, having to do with the mutually agreed upon terms of employment, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the employer's private property rights. If it did, then PC § 30.06 would not make it permissible for a non-employee CHL holder to secure their firearm in the car. If the building weren't posted, the employee could still be subject to termination according to the employee policy, but not to arrest and prosecution since the building is not posted.
The whole point of a "parking lot bill" which you may be overlooking, is to make it so that the CHL holder who is employed by that company will enjoy the same rights under the law as any other CHL holder. They still cannot enter the 30.06 posted building. They still cannot carry into the building in violation of employment policy on penalty of termination, but they will enjoy all the same rights as any other CHL holder.
For your position to be consistent, then you must categorically renounce the parking lot exception of 30.06 for
all CHL holders. Is that your position?
