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Briankey wrote:If an employer will not allow a CHL to protect themselves at work or in their Parking Lot, and something Happens to the employee, robbed, beat down etc.. why couldn't that employer be sued for not protecting an employee?.

Here's an approach; based on scanner listening and news reports, assaultive offenses that could be prevented with a handgun happen a lot more often than car fires that could be controlled with a hand extinguisher, yet no company would even consider a rule prohibiting employees from carrying fire extinguishers in their cars. Imagine the liability when an employees loses a car to a minor fire, and is possibly injured or killed in the incident.

As to whether it is a reasonable precaution, 288,000 Texans have spent the not insignificant amount of money to get licensed and maintain that license, and we have no numbers on how many car carry under HB815 without a CHL, but I'd bet even the 288k is more than have spent the $15 every couple of years to keep a working fire extinguisher in the car. (Unless required by law or company rules in a commercial-use vehicle, of course.)

WildBill wrote:I was thinking more about if the car were already on the company property. Would they call the supervisor and force the employee to leave? I wonder if the company would fire the employee at that time for refusing the search or they would just make them leave the property.

That would depend on the company. If there's a specific reason to search a particular person's vehicle, that's fine, but I don't do random fishing expeditions just to appease someone's paranoia, and almost all of the good guards I've talked to feel the same way. They'll be down to the mall ninjas and Taco Bell rejects in no time.

Of course, it helps to know the guy who taught most of the current client's managers' CHL courses, so if they want to do it, I know which cars to search before I quit. Unless we get a raise soon, bagging groceries will surpass our wage by next summer, so I'm not really worried about the money.

And DP. I don't know of any security company that would tolerate the liability of having their guards even know that was going on. I can't imagine that a court would find breaking into vehicles at random to be anything short of BMV.