Kentucky: Employees Can't be Fired For Storing Guns in Cars

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Volokh.com link

That’s what Kentucky statutes provide, and today the Kentucky Supreme Court applied this rule in Mitchell v. University of Kentucky (Ky. Apr. 26, 2012). There was something of a complication because the defendant was a university, and state law provides universities with generally broad authority to restrict weapons on their property. But the court concluded that the statutory provisions allowing employees to lawfully store guns in their cars is an exception from that broad university power. Michael Mitchell’s wrongful firing lawsuit against the university can therefore go forward

Steps on private property rights, but that was codified by state law (citations and excepts at the link).

 

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Steps on private property rights, but that was codified by state law (citations and excepts at the link).

State university in KY is private property? Or are you referring to the vehicle?

Sounds like the statue for employees to store guns in their vehicle trumps the gun ban at universities.

 

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State university in KY is private property? Or are you referring to the vehicle?

Sounds like the statue for employees to store guns in their vehicle trumps the gun ban at universities.

The statute says public or private. Public grabs the University (assuming here that it's State-run). But private would appear to extend to private-sector employers as well.