Company Ban on firearms draws call for boycott.The National Rifle Association National Rifle Association (NRA) Governing organization for the sport of shooting with rifles and pistols. It was founded in Britain in 1860. The U.S. organization, formed in 1871, has a membership of some four million. Both the British and the U.S. is urging its 4 million members to boycott boycott, concerted economic or social ostracism of an individual, group, or nation to express disapproval or coerce change. The practice was named (1880) after Capt. Conoco and Phillips Phil·lips A trademark used for a screw with a head having two intersecting perpendicular slots and for a screwdriver with a tip shaped to fit into these slots. 66 gas stations until their parent company, ConocoPhillips ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is an international energy corporation with its headquarters located in Houston, Texas. It was created through the merger of Conoco Inc. and the Phillips Petroleum Company on August 30, 2002. , drops its ban on employees keeping guns in their cars parked in company lots. ConocoPhillips drew the NRA's ire when it filed suit in federal court to block an Oklahoma law from taking effect. That law, passed in May, allows workers to have weapons in a locked vehicle at their place of employment. The law was spurred by the firing of several workers in 2002 by Weyerhaeuser, which operates a paper mill in Oklahoma. The company terminated the employees after it discovered guns in their vehicles during a drug search. ConocoPhillips and other firms challenging the law say they are responsible for workers' safety and cite incidents of workplace homicides caused by employees who had easy access to guns. The Oklahoma law protects employers from civil liability if a weapon is taken from an employee's vehicle and used to commit a crime. It also protects employees from liability in such situations. In addition to calling for a boycott of Conoco and Phillips 66 gas stations, the NRA NRA (National Rifle Association of America) organization that encourages sharpshooting and use of firearms for hunting. [Am. Pop. Culture: NCE, 1895] See : Hunting is placing advertisements on billboards that read, "ConocoPhillips is no friend of the Second Amendment." The second amendment to the U.S. Constitution states, "A well regulated militia militia (məlĭsh`ə), military organization composed of citizens enrolled and trained for service in times of national emergency. Its ranks may be filled either by enlistment or conscription. being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." |
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