Tennessee governor amends 'Guns in Parking Lots' law to protect workers

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By Kyle Rothenberg
·Published April 21, 2015
·FoxNews.com

If legal guns are stowed safely in cars, a Tennessee employer cannot fire an employee for bringing them to work.

There’s an arms race playing out in Nashville, where lawmakers have been fighting for and against the rights of workers to take guns to work.

The Second Amendment spat began in 2013, when Gov. Bill Haslam signed into law the controversial “Guns in Parking Lots" bill. But the original law, which stated citizens with permits to carry guns can keep them in their cars on company property even if the employer bars them, only protected citizens against prosecution, not firing. The Tennessee Firearms Association dubbed the law the “Lose Your Job if You Commute Act.”

Now, pro-gun politicians say they have fixed the law.

“No employer shall discharge or take any adverse employment action against an employee solely for transporting or storing a firearm or firearms ammunition in an employer parking area,” reads an amended version of the bill, signed into law earlier this month by Haslam, a Republican.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/04/...e-workers-from/

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