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My view is that a company parking lot is one thing, the office/factory/etc something else entirely. A parking lot is a quasi-public area, not entirely private property, for most business, where access is granted to not only employees but to delivery persons, mailmen, and business customers. In such situations as well it may be impossible for employees to park off the premises, There is some support for this view in a recently decided federal district court case that the post office cannot ban private weapons in its parking lots, while it is allowed to do so inside. This distinction makes sense and deals with the majority of the risk without intruding on citizens rights to bear arms. If you can't store a firearm in a private vehicle that the employer has no tight to search, then you have eliminated the right for all times during the daily commute, and that does not seem to be a fair balancing of property rights versus constitutional rights.
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