If someone is crazed enough to kill fellow employees a stupid rule isn't going to change it.
I think companies need to back of this God complex they have.
What happens if a company is having Union trouble and fears guns may be used to intimidate, should they have to allow guns in the parking lot?
If it is private property, the owners may apply this kind of restriction because it is their property...
More like lawyer inspired regulation; without the rule they will be held liable if someone goes off the deep end.
But if someone goes on a rampage inside the company, your firearm--out in the car/truck--is not going to be of much use for self defense at that critical moment.
Here we have a situation of "State vs Private Property Owner (Weyerhauser)." Typically we don't like the state trying to tell people what they can and can't do with their private property, so I don't see any viable solution to this problem. My car is also my private property. I can understand both sides, but I personally do not like getting in my car and being out and about without my PSD. My daughter-in-law, works nights, I wouldn't want her driving to and from work without hers either--nor would her family.
big corps have become the soft enforcement arm of the government. I believe this is what Ron Paul refers to as "corporate fascism."
It's sickening.