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NRA News
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Written by Daniel White
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009 06:29 |
From the NRA-ILA:
This week, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously in support of an Oklahoma law allowing employees to store legally owned firearms in locked, private motor vehicles while parked in employer parking lots. This decision upholds NRA-backed legislation passed in 2004.
"This is a victory for the millions of American workers who have been denied the right to protect themselves while commuting between their homes and their workplace," said NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre. "Their effort to overturn the law was aimed at skirting the will of the American people, and the intent of legislatures across this country while eviscerating Right-to-Carry laws. This ruling is a slap at the corporate elitists who have no regard for the constitutional rights of law abiding American workers."
Worker protection laws like this are starting to sweep the country, and Ohio needs to enact something similar to keep our workforce safe to and from the job site. Ohioans For Concealed Carry has included this on our list of goals for 2009 and will work with the Ohio legislature to bring these same rights to Ohioans enjoyed by workers in Oklahoma and numerous other states.
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