Appeals panel favors AFS worker

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously found Aug. 8 that a Mississippi worker could sue his former employer, Aurora Flight Services, after being fired for keeping a gun in a locked vehicle on the company’s site. The court found that Mississippi’s 2006 law against the prohibition of the storage of legal firearms on employers’ property overrules the state’s 150-year at-will employment statutes. Robert Swindol worked for AFS at its plant in Columbus, but, when officials found he had a legal gun inside his locked vehicle in AFS’ parking lot, fired him for violating company policy. The Fifth Circuit panel ruled that a district court’s dismissal of his firing was wrong. (Source: Guns.com 08/11/16)