Reply #8: I think the real issue is whether or not an owner of a publicly accessible

[benEzra]

parking lot has the right to search MY property (the trunk of my car) without a warrant.

Do you think mall security should have the right to rummage through everything in your trunk and glove compartment just because they think you fit a profile they don't like?

Property owners can already ban the carrying of guns on their property. The issue in the case you refer to (the Weyerhauser incident) involved a company trying to control the behavior of employees off the clock, by staging a warrantless, unannounced search of employees' cars in a public lot on the first day of hunting season...and firing the employees who refused to let Weyerhauser rummage through their cars, or those who had unloaded firearms locked securely in the trunks of their vehicles.

That's not a pro-civil-liberties position, IMHO. If you want to let corporate CEO's search cars in public lots for lawfully owned and transported guns, you can't object when they search for anything else.