Jumping the Gun The issue of firearms in the workplace heats up.

The passage of an Oklahoma law last year allowing employees tokeep firearms in cars parked on company property isn't OK withDavid Johndrow. "It's a bad law, basically," says the37-year-old co-founder of HRLogix, an Oklahoma City-based HRsoftware company with 20 employees and $3 million in sales.

Johndrow isn't alone. Last year, Pizza Hut fired a deliverydriver who shot and killed a pistol-toting holdup man. Thedriver's act was judged justifiable self-defense and no chargeswere brought against him, but he was fired for violating hisemployer's ban on guns in the workplace.

The issue of workplace firearms is heating up, with severalstates passing laws expanding employees' ability to carryweapons on the job, says gun-rights activist Alan Gottlieb, founderof the Second Amendment Foundation in Bellevue, Washington.Oklahoma has been joined by Ohio, where Gottlieb spearheaded alawsuit to relax gun laws, and Minnesota.