Fairfax workers allowed guns, but not knives or crossbows

Fairfax County employees can bring guns and ammo with them to work, as long as they leave them in their cars, but the workers are now questioning why they can’t also leave crossbows, hunting knives and other weapons in cars and trucks they park on county premises.

The county is for the first time allowing employees to bring guns to work, only because the Virginia General Assembly earlier this year passed a law permitting public employees to keep firearms in locked vehicles. Visitors to county offices were already allowed to keep firearms in their cars.