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Quoted: So OSHA could come out and demand guns be banned?
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I dont see how. They cant really BAN anything. They dont really work that way.
if your in violation of some rule all they really do is fine your ass over and over. If the problem still isnt corrected they will shut a facility down permanently or until the problem is fixed.
however i could see them regulating them in an employment setting. But not outside of that.
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Start small and then take it to the judge. Lawsuit file on just these REGs.
www.csgv.org/news/headlines/nytimes_conoco.cfmThe New York Times
NRA Fights Energy Giant Over Stance on a Lawsuit
By Ralph Blumenthal
8/03/05
The National Rifle Association and ConocoPhillips, one of the nation's largest energy companies, headed toward a showdown over gun control on private property on Tuesday, with the rifle association vowing to put up hundreds of billboards casting the oil giant as an enemy of gun owners.
''We didn't seek this fight, and we're not running away from it if it means taking on one of the largest corporations in the world,'' Wayne LaPierre, the rifle association's executive vice president, said in a phone interview from Washington after returning from Oklahoma, where he had announced the boycott on Monday night.
The association is focusing its wrath on ConocoPhillips because the company joined a federal lawsuit to block an Oklahoma law that allows employees to keep guns in cars parked in company lots. The law was enacted after 12 workers were fired from a Weyerhaeuser paper mill in southeast Oklahoma in 2002.ConocoPhillips -- the largest company based in Houston and the largest oil refiner in the country, with assets of $97 billion -- did not respond in detail. A spokesman, Jeffrey Callender, said the company had been ''in touch with the N.R.A. throughout the process'' and ''at this point was continuing to maintain its stance.''
ConocoPhillips also issued a short statement saying that it supported the Second Amendment and the right of law-abiding citizens to own guns.
''Our primary concern is the safety of all our employees,'' the company said, adding, ''We are simply trying to provide a safe and secure working environment for our employees by keeping guns out of our facilities, including our company parking lots.''The Williams Companies, another major energy company, and Halliburton have also joined the lawsuit, but ConocoPhillips was selected because of its size, Mr. LaPierre said.
Whirlpool had originally brought the lawsuit, but a spokesman, Stephen Duthie, said it dropped out after assurances from the state attorney general that the law would not affect the company's authority to keep guns off its property; Mr. Duthie said the rifle association had not influenced that decision.
Halliburton, the energy services giant whose subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root employed six of the fired workers, said Tuesday that it continued to side with ConocoPhillips against the Oklahoma law.
''It is our view that firearms should not be permitted on premises where Halliburton conducts business and that the law should not require the company to allow them,'' said a spokeswoman, Cathy Mann.
Another company, the Nordam Group, a maker of aircraft components, also has submitted briefs in support of the lawsuit. The chief executive, Ken Lackey, called guns on a work site ''improper and dangerous'' and said that as a former N.R.A. member he was unconcerned about pressure from the organization.
The companies involved in the lawsuit say that with about 17 killings a week in American workplaces, it was sound policy and within their rights as property owners to ban weapons from their parking lots.
Mr. LaPierre said that ''nobody is proposing you be allowed to walk into a nuclear plant with a gun,'' but that workers had a constitutional right to keep legal weapons secured in their cars when they went to work.
The rifle association, which says 90 million Americans own guns, is asking its 4 million members and others not to patronize Conoco or Phillips 66 gas stations.
Just last month, it canceled plans to hold its 2007 national convention in Columbus, Ohio, after that city enacted a ban on assault weapons.
The dispute in Oklahoma stems from a crackdown at Weyerhaeuser against employee drug abuse. A company spokesman, Bruce Amundson, said trained dogs sniffing in the parking lot of the paper mill in Valliant found a dozen cars with rifles, shotguns, handguns and some automatic weapons, violations of a new policy banning weapons in cars. The gun owners, including contract workers for Kellogg Brown & Root, were fired.
Some sued in federal court, claiming in part that the gun policy had not been spelled out. They lost but are appealing to the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
In response to the firings, Oklahoma lawmakers passed a bill that would bar property owners from restricting those without felony records from keeping firearms in a locked vehicle. But that measure, to take effect in November, has now been blocked by the companies' lawsuit.