Friday , April 26 2024

Should Fresno City Employees Be Allowed To Carry Guns At Work?

Next time you go to pay a traffic ticket or see a city employee looking for people watering their yards on banned watering days, that employee might be carrying a concealed fire arm. A proposal that could be before the Fresno City Council would allow just that. There are more than 1,500 people in the city of Fresno who have a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Among that group, some almost certainly are city employees working everywhere from behind a desk to doing code enforcement on abandoned properties. City Councilmember Gary Bredefeld says those city workers should be allowed to carry their weapon on the job the same as they do off the clock. “If there are people, employees, throughout Fresno working, if they would feel safer being able to carry their weapon because they have a legal right to do so, we want to allow them to do that,” Bredefeld says. Bredefeld has submitted a resolution to the city council to make it clear that if a city worker has obtained a permit to carry a
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