I’m OK
NRA: An overwhelming bi-partisan majority of Oklahoma lawmakers have decided to prohibit private employers from asking job applicants if they own a gun. Senate Bill 793, introduced by state Senator Anthony Sykes, R-Moore, passed in the state senate on a vote of 43-1 this week.
Does that really come up?
March 5th, 2009 at 11:17 am
who was the 1?
shoot him.
(j/k)
March 5th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Yes, it comes up. If I remember correctly it came up because some employers took to searching employees cars at the beginning of deer season. Those with rifles got fired.
March 5th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
I could see asking a job applicant for a gun shop, security guard (where carrying a gun was a part of the job), or firearms instructor that question.
I could also be a sneaky way to find out if someone has ever been convicted of a felony.
March 5th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
It most definitely does come up. It also contributes to termination. At a recent layoff at my dayjob, all of the “known” gun owners were all laid off. I would have scored it as coincidence until I had a talk with the director. He made his views utterly clear: “*blank* was a gun guy. I don’t trust those people. That’s why I left Houston when they passed that concealed weapon law.”
Which is why I use a pseudonym. Gun ownership does not establish a protected class under current case law. They can fire you without recourse.
March 5th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
And here I am, a gummint IT employee, with an office full of gun photos, “keeper” targets, and framed gun school diplomas. Nobody’s ever complained. In fact, I’ve met lots of other shooters that way I’d never have guessed were into guns.
Weird.
March 6th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
A case can be made for it. Employment attorney Matthew J. Bean has done the research and is willing to share it.