Iowa lawyer gives employees $50 monthly bonus to carry a concealed gun

Puryear Law is offering its employees a $50 bonus each month if they're willing to concealed carry at work.

"About four years ago I thought well, I'd like to see more employees exercise their right to carry if they so choose, how can I incentivize that?" said the firm's owner, attorney Eric Puryear. But even with the bonus policy, he adds that, "It's every person’s choice. If someone doesn't want to own a gun, I'm not going to try to make them."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.