Disney Fires Guard Who Protested Gun Policy

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Walt Disney Co. fired a security guard who protested a company policy that bars employees from keeping guns in their cars at work.

Edwin Sotomayor, 36, was fired Monday after refusing to let security managers at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Orlando search his car when he arrived for work on July 4. Earlier in the week, he had alerted the media that he would bring a gun onto Disney's property to protest its "ridiculous" stance that the company is exempt from a new law letting employees with permits keep guns in their locked cars, he said in an interview.

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Disney Fires Guard Who Protested Gun Policy

"He would not confirm or deny he had a weapon in his vehicle," Disney spokeswoman Zoraya Suarez s...

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