>From the "net: [quote]In the meantime, the Oklahoma Legislature, decided to close up that loophole and ensure that your right to keep a gun in your car was crystal-clearly protected even though you happened to have a job and parked your car in your employer's parking lot. It didn't dawn on the legislature that it really didn't matter what they did, 'cause the federal judiciary is just pretty much hostile to the idea of "the masses" a totin' shootin' arns. If it wasn't that "nothing in the statute about guns in the employer's parking lot" business, it would have been something else.
What I might loosely refer to as a coalition of large, corporate employers pretty much went berserk, and filed a declaratory judgment action in Tulsa to prevent the new statute from being enforced. Yesterday the US District Court granted that injunction on the ground that the Oklahoma statute conflicted with the purposes of OSHA and was therefore pre-empted by OSHA. According to the opinion, having a gun in your car poses a danger to your coworkers. Forcing the employer to allow you to keep a gun in your car compels the employer to choose between compliance with the purposes of OSHA and compliance with Oklahoma law.[/quote] http://www.defensivecarry.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=33508 See also Tulsa World news story at: http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=071006_1_A1_hHeis85083 Professor Joseph Olson, J.D., LL.M. o- 651-523-2142 Hamline University School of Law f- 651-523-2236 St. Paul, MN 55113-1235 c- 612-865-7956 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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