NRA takes aim at ConocoPhillips

BOSTON, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- The National Rifle Association argues a company's attempt to keep weapons from its parking lots would limit U.S. gun owners' rights to travel with weapons.

The NRA, one of Washington's most powerful lobby groups, is fighting efforts by ConocoPhillips, an oil company, to keep weapons out of the workplace by trying to have an Oklahoma law changed, The Christian Science Monitor reported Friday. The gun lobby has called for a boycott of ConocoPhillips and plans a billboard campaign stating, "ConocoPhillips is No Friend of the Second Amendment."

ConocoPhillips wants an Oklahoma law banning employers from barring employees taking weapons onto company property repealed. The oil company issued a statement saying it supports the Second Amendment but is trying to keep its workplace safer for employees.

More than 30 states have laws allowing citizens to carry concealed guns. The Monitor said the NRA looks to rid law books of any restrictions where guns can be taken.

Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the NRA, told the Monitor the ConocoPhillips "case clearly goes to the very core of the freedom of Americans to own and travel with firearms in this country."