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The National Rifle Association, sensing trouble on its proposed bill in the state Legislature that would require employers to allow workers to have guns in their cars in company parking lots, offered some unusual compromises Wednesday:

• Creating gun rooms at work and having workers check their weapons when they arrive.

• Separate parking lots for gun owners.

• Making it OK to carry in the car, as long as you tell your boss.

But those ''concessions'' were not well received by some lawmakers. So the bill's sponsors, Reps. Dennis Baxley, an Ocala Republican, and David Simmons, a Longwood Republican, decided to postpone a vote on the bill when it appeared the measure did not have the support of a majority of the House Judiciary Committee.

Even supporters of the idea of letting employees store guns in their cars questioned the logic of businesses allowing their employees to check their guns at the door when they come to work.

''I support the intent of the bill. I support the ability to protect Second Amendment rights,'' said Rep. Jeff Kottkamp, a Cape Coral Republican. ``The idea of encouraging people to take guns out of their car and take them into a building is absurd. It's not something we should be putting into law.''
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