Guns-at-work bill passes Senate

HB 287, the bill designed to encourage guns at workplace parking lots by granting immunity from lawsuits to employers who let their employees store their firearms in their cars in the company lot has passed the Senate on a 26-8 vote. Several opponents decried the bill as unnecessary, but it passed anyway. The bill originally was promoted in the House in part as a way to encourage Cabela’s to end a policy forbidding employees from keeping guns in their cars at work, but the sporting goods retailer said it has no such policy. Backed by the National Rifle Association, the measure passed anyway; it now goes to the governor.