A federal judge soon will rule on the legality of a law allowing employees to bring guns to work. The judge’s first reaction to the law: He said it’s “stupid.”
The judge’s comments came when he examined a suit by business groups asking him to strike down Florida’s law that makes it OK for employees to bring weapons on company property.
The judge has initially delayed ruling on the business groups’ request to stop the law from going into effect on July 1, but he said he would issue a ruling later this month.
The law came about after a lawsuit involving an employee who insisted that he had a right guaranteed by the Constitution to keep a gun in his vehicle parked in company property. Florida’s legislature took up the employee’s fight and passed a law OK-ing guns at the workplace.
The business groups are using workplace safety as their grounds for asking for the gun ban on employer property.
