Do you carry concealed where you work?

[Cremon]

I am curious to know how many people keep a concealed weapon even when they are at their place of work. Obviously if someone is a police officer they are REQUIRED to carry at work but this thread is mainly for CCW people. But if you are LEO, you can post what you WOULD do - I'd like to see everyone's response to this poll.

[oilfieldguy]

Yes.
I work alone in the middle of nowhere (west tx) and you really can't know from one day to the next what you might run into.

I am never unarmed.

[zombie237]

work on a military installation, no carry whatsoever.

[Kreyzhorse]

No carry on any type of work related business.

[EdInk]

Not allowed.

[Old Timer]

None of the above. My company prohibits employee's firearms on company property except for those who have received special authorization. I have so I carry on the job.

[rantingredneck]

not allowed on work time.

[Microgunner]

We all carry openly and even lend firearms to new employees until they can buy their own if they don't already own a suitable example.

[rellik74]

I am phrobited from carry but offten do when I have to work alone. I am also in the middle of no-where

[UpandAtIt]

I work on a Military base for a GoCo (Govertment Owned Company Operated) business and the base does NOT allow personal weapons unless they are hunting arms (long arms only) of not more than 5 shot capacity. They must either be kept at the security office armory or locked in a hard shell case in your trunk unloaded. You must also be a member of the base sportsman club and register the firearm upon going in and out.

I will tell ya though...... damn worth all the troubles, the hunting and fishing is almost like stepping back in time to the mid 1800's. Deer Graze in herds and ducks, fox as well as all kinds of critters on the protected base. Every pond and water way on that base has beaver and muskrat.

They do not allow pistols to be carried by civillians at any time. You do get yourself and auto searched in and out of the base. Plus our company has a metal detector in and out of the doors.

When we get pistols in the Survival Kits we refurbish, dismantle and repack, we have to call base security and they stand there and inventory each pistol from the kits and then they take them and put them into a security locker until we repack the survival kits, rafts, drop kits. They do not inventory the rifles or shotguns even the full auto M4 sets in some of the kits and as a matter of fact, they become company property and not the gov'ts.

[TailGator]

I own the joint. I am armed, and my employees know it and appreciate the fact that I am willing to protect them if action was ever needed.

[spamanon]

Where I work there are metal detectors at all entrances, and no weapons allowed, not even in vehicles. Of course there are armed people (M-4s) all over the place, so not counting the possibility of one of them snapping, I never feel unprotected.

[spacecoast]

Messed up my vote... voted choice #1 correctly, but should have added #5 as well.

[Dannyl]

HI,
In my case all the companies I have worked for have had no problems with me (or other employees ) being armed.
For the past couple of years I run my own company, so obviously I have no problems with it...

Then again, in South Africa people do not need long explanations why itis a god idea to be armed, and although you have to apply for a license for each firearm, the license immediately allows you to carry it, no need for a special carry permit.

Brgds,

Danny

[The Tourist]

Wisconsin is a goofy state, not always because of the liberals.

Now granted, we cannot carry concealed "on the body," but just about everything else goes. It's the same with gun use at your place of business.

In the mid-1980's I worked for a private telephone company and long-distance reseller. As they came to find out, there is a need for a locking, monitored "tool crib" and effective doors, windows and alarms. The place was a sieve. My boss decided to expand my duties to security, and gave me a written clause to carry concealed as part of my job description.

In a bizarre turn of events, I hired the very police officer who had arrested me some years before, to act as a loss consultant.

The boss and his wife (who was my direct supervisor) discovered they liked firearms, and became target shooters. By the end of my tenure, we were cleaning firearms in our private offices. The only "gun crime" you could commit was not showing the boss your new toy.

And again, this was in Madison Wisconsin. I carried a Detonics and Colt Officers ACP.

[wyobohunter]

The company I work for is very serious about their no weapons on company property policy. Serious enough that they will occasionally bring in a dog.

On one hand it bothers me that I can't even have a gun in my personal truck (if I park on property). If somebody were going to go off the deep end and start blasting at people or equipment the policy wouldn't make a bit of difference, it'd just leave the rest of us unable to defend ourselves.

I occasionally fly to remote locations that have a fair amount of Bears. We are allowed to carry pepper spray, so I do.

During hunting season you see lots of trucks (mine included) parked off of company property.

On the other hand, guns probably aren't a good Idea around high pressure hydrocarbon vessels and transmission lines.

When we send groups of folks out into the woods to work in areas that are known to have Brown/Grizzly Bears we hire Brown Bear hunting guides who go along and keep a sharp eye out (they carry the rifle/shotgun of their choice).

I don't go with large groups so I'm stuck with pepper spray

[TriumphGuy]

You forgot "I don't carry at work because it would be a federal offense."

[Cremon]

Originally Posted by wyobohunter

On one hand it bothers me that I can't even have a gun in my personal truck (if I park on property).

I work for a company that does not allow concealed carry in the place of work and they state that they will fire you immediately if they find a weapon on you. They are well within their rights to enforce that.

But in the state of GA, it is against the law for a private company to forbid its employees from having a firearm in their car in the parking lot because the castle Doctrine lists the car as an extension of the home (and therefore castle). You do not need a CCW permit for this law to protect your right to keep your gun in your car either.

[wyobohunter]

You'd think that the state of Alaska would have some sort of a castle doctrine. Considering the fact that it's about the most gun friendly state in every other way. Maybe something to hit the politicians up about

[Cremon]

Alaska is the only state I am aware of that lets citizens carry concealed without having to have a permit to do so, too.

So yes, the laws there seem confusing.

[wyobohunter]

I guess it's because a "castle law" covers much more than just guns.

[EdInk]

I believe Vermont also allows ccw without a permit. That or they honor every other states permits

[ZeSpectre]

I work in an "state institute of higher education" and am prohibited by my work agreement.

Interestingly enough nothing is posted anywhere and any Va citizen who hasn't signed that clause is completely within their rights to march across campus CCW or Open Carry and the only thing that can be done is to ask them to leave campus property.

At least campus safety is cool with me storing stuff there during the day for those times when I'm going to go to the range after work.

[redhandeddenial]

i too work at a state run higher education institution.


the professors would flip a kitty if they found out anyone had a weapon in their vehicles.

i regularly catch crap for my pocket knife

[The Tourist]

Originally Posted by redhandeddenial

i regularly catch crap for my pocket knife

Eh, so do I. Have to keep explaining it's a cutting tool, not a ninja weapon.

Trust me, being criticized by the peanut gallery is the just the price you pay for being a free American. After a while the whining just sounds like static.