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Company Fires Employee For Fending Off Armed Robber with Gun

Mother of 4 -- the original Wrote: Dec 06, 2012 7:24 AM

Unless there are some highly unusual circumstances -- extreme temperatures, exposure to electricity, strong magnetic fields, ... -- at a workplace there is no rational reason to prohibit a person with a concealed carry permit bringing his/her properly holstered gun to work. My gun went to work with me for two years and no one ever knew it was there. On a shift where no on was armed a guy who was mad about being fired put the shift manager into the ICU with an iron rod.

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Company Fires Employee For Fending Off Armed Robber with Gun

When an armed robber entered a Virginia AutoZone store demanding that the manager unlock the store’s safe, employee and Air Force veteran Devin McClean snuck out of the store to grab his legally-owned gun from his vehicle. When he returned with his weapon, he was able to scare the robber away, thereby saving his manager’s life and the company $2,000. How was McClean rewarded for carrying out such a heroic act? Because he violated company policy by bringing a personal weapon into the store-- he was fired. The Blaze has more: