Florida - Disney relaxes restrictions on workers' guns

[308Mike]

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Disney relaxes restrictions on workers' guns

Scott Powers | Sentinel Staff Writer
August 16, 2008

Walt Disney World has limited its ban on employee guns at work to the giant resort's main property only -- and with that move Friday received the blessing of Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum.

Disney riled the National Rifle Association, many other gun advocates and a few Florida lawmakers earlier this summer by declaring it had a special exemption from a new state law allowing Floridians to keep guns locked in their cars while at work. Disney said it could prevent employees from bringing guns with them, even if they had concealed-weapons permits, because the new law contained a loophole for companies -- Disney included -- that hold federal fireworks permits.

The company's position led to a still-unresolved court challenge from a Disney security guard who tested the resort's policy. He brought a gun to work and was fired in early July. The disagreement also spurred others to file complaints with McCollum's consumer-services division, demanding that the state tell Disney it was wrong.

Disney responded Friday by lifting its employee-gun ban at several of its back-office outposts where fireworks are not stored or used, including Disney offices in Celebration and at Little Lake Bryan. The offices employ 5,700 of the more than 60,000 Disney workers in Central Florida, according to spokeswoman Jacquee Polak.

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[BobTheWitch]

They are backing off because the legislators in Tallahassee were mightily pissed. They law might well have been re-written to say, "And we mean you too Disney", if they had not done this.