bring your gun to work law

[greasemonkeysc]

Got a question for anyone who might know. I work up north here in gary, and I gotta go through some uneasy looking places on my route in so I normally carry my sidearm for any what ifs. I leave it in the car when im at work, its just for the ride in and out. I did some research with the new law and had a question in regarding it. I work an the tip of the lake, we are not a port that I know of, but we do have a dock where we have barges unload now and then. Am I still legal to carry and keep my sidearm in my car even with having a dock on the worksite

 

[Hohn]

(d) This section may be not construed:
(1) to prohibit a person who owns, leases, rents, or otherwise
legally controls private property from regulating or prohibiting
the possession of firearms on the private property;
(2) to allow a person to adopt or enforce an ordinance,
resolution, policy, or rule that:
(A) prohibits; or
(B) has the effect of prohibiting;
an employee of the person from possessing a firearm or
ammunition that is locked in the trunk of the employee's
vehicle, kept in theglove compartmentof theemployee's locked
vehicle, or stored out of plain sight in the employee's locked
vehicle, unless the person's adoption or enforcement of the
ordinance, resolution, policy, or rule is allowed under
IC 34-28-7-2(b); or
(3) to allow a person to adopt or enforce a law, statute,
ordinance, resolution, policy, or rule that allows a person to
possess or transport a firearm or ammunition if the person is
prohibited from possessing or transporting the firearm or
ammunition by state or federal law.



IC 34-28-7-2
Regulationof employees' firearms andammunitionby employers
Sec. 2. (a) Notwithstanding any other law and except as provided
in subsection (b), a person may not adopt or enforce an ordinance, a
resolution, a policy, or a rule that:
(1) prohibits; or
(2) has the effect of prohibiting;
an employee of the person, including a contract employee, from
possessing a firearm or ammunition that is locked in the trunk of the
employee's vehicle, kept in the glove compartment of the employee's
locked vehicle, or stored out of plain sight in the employee's locked
vehicle.
(b) Subsection (a) does not prohibit the adoption or enforcement
of an ordinance, a resolution, a policy, or a rule that prohibits or has
the effect of prohibiting an employee of the person, including a
contract employee, from possessing a firearm or ammunition:
(1) in or on school property, in or on property that is being used
by a school for a school function, or on a schoolbusin violation
of IC 20-33-8-16 or IC 35-47-9-2;
(2) on the property of:
(A) a child caring institution;
(B) an emergency shelter care child caring institution;
(C) a private secure facility;
(D) a group home;
(E) an emergency shelter care group home; or
(F) a child care center;
in violation of 465 IAC 2-9-80, 465 IAC 2-10-79, 465 IAC
2-11-80, 465 IAC 2-12-78, 465 IAC 2-13-77, or 470 IAC
3-4.7-19;
(3) on the property of a penal facility (as defined in
IC 35-31.5-2-232);
(4) in violation of federal law;
(5) in or on property belonging to an approved postsecondary
educational institution (as defined in IC 21-7-13-6(b));
(6) on the property of a domestic violence shelter;
(7) at a person's residence;
(8) on the property of a person that is:
(A) subject to the United States Department of Homeland
Security's Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards
issued April 9, 2007; and
(B) licensed by the United States Nuclear Regulatory
Commission under Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations;
(9) on property owned by:
(A) a public utility (as defined in IC 8-1-2-1) that generates
and transmits electric power; or
(B) a department of public utilities created under
IC 8-1-11.1; or
(10) in the employee's personal vehicle if the employee,
including a contract employee, is a direct support professional
who:
(A) works directly with individuals with developmental
disabilities to assist theindividuals to become integrated into
the individuals' community or least restrictive environment;
and
(B) uses the employee's personal vehicle while transporting
an individual with developmental disabilities

 

[Hohn]

I'm no lawyer, but I don't see Docks listed as an exception where the employer may prohibit handgun storage in your locked vehicle glove box, etc.

The thing you' have to watch out for is of the Docks are federal jurisdiction.


IN State law can't protect you if it's not IN jurisdiction.

 

[actaeon277]

Do you work at one of the steel mills?
If so, then federal law says no.

 

[stephen87]

Is this like 'bring your daughter to work day?'

 

[short308]

Do you work at one of the steel mills?
If so, then federal law says no.

Or one of the Nuke plants ? Pretty sure you would have a bad day they discover your gun on one of the random vehicle searches. Not sure about BP.

 

[lonehoosier]

Is this like 'bring your daughter to work day?'

 

[actaeon277]

Or one of the Nuke plants ? Pretty sure you would have a bad day they discover your gun on one of the random vehicle searches. Not sure about BP.

Doesn't have to be nuke. Any power plant is on the DHS list.

 

[short308]

Doesn't have to be nuke. Any power plant is on the DHS list.

Wasn't sure how the other ones worked. Only been to a nuke. The nuclear stuff is no joke.

 

[actaeon277]

Wasn't sure how the other ones worked. Only been to a nuke. The nuclear stuff is no joke.

I'm not sure how they work with the new windmills. Those are recent, and I'm not sure if they would be covered.
But NIPSCO's coal fired plants are.

 

[airman0404]

If it's a MARSEC area, then no. It controlled by the Coast Guard, federal law. As for the BP mention before, BP does not allow firearms on their property, even if locked in your car. I had a buddy that had his pistol locked in his car and someone dropped the dime on him. He was fired, but after a year was able to get his job back, thanks to the union. But in my honest opinion, you can have it, just don't tell any one, and hide it good while at work. No one is the wiser.