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Aug 16, 2008 8:19 am US/Eastern

Disney To Allow Some Workers To Keep Guns

orlando (CBS4) ― If you work for the Walt Disney company in Florida and want to keep a gun in your car, Mickey's boss will apparently allow that despite efforts to challenge a new state law, but only if you don't work at one of the Disney resorts. That's according to a company memo obtained Friday.

Disney employees will be allowed to keep a gun locked in a car as long as the employee has a concealed-weapons permit, the gun isn't visible, and the weapon isn't taken out of the car.

While that lets the company comply with state law, it's still banning guns on Disney report properties, where most of the company's employees work.

Despite that caveat, a spokeswoman for Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum says Disney's new policy complies with the law.

The company had previously claimed to be exempt from a new state law that allows Florida residents to keep firearms in their vehicles while at work, because its resorts use fireworks.

Employers which handle explosives are exempt from the new state law, but employees had challenged Disney's interpretation as being too broad.

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