Thursday, the short session in the Indiana Legislature is supposed to wrap up, or will it? There are still many unresolved key issues left before state legislators as the midnight deadline approaches.

The house has passed gun legislation because lawmakers are under the gun to close out this session, as pressure comes from leaders to end it by as early as midnight Thursday.

You could tell at the table outside the Speaker’s office there was a line forming, maybe some sort of pot luck, possibly an indication that they may be burning some midnight oil.

Earlier Thursday afternoon the House took up a gun bill that would allow you to bring your gun to work and keep it locked up inside your car, trunk or perhaps the glove compartment.

“We will not be taking away anyone's constitutional rights, by saying you can not take your gun to work. That is the most asinine thing I’ve hear of in a long time,” Rep. Charlie Brown-D Gary said.

“We are actually sanctioning and putting into law that you can take your gun to work. It makes it much easier for you to be more than disagreeable if something happens at the workplace that you do not like,” Rep. Brown added.

Legislators agree, this isn’t about taking away constitutional rights, it is about letting the citizens of Indiana protect themselves from their home to the workplace or vice versa.

“This is not about taking guns into a workplace, it is about defending yourself and having the option for personal self defense from point A to point B. It overwhelmingly passed, in the State of Indiana, it is an overwhelmingly positive issue. People want to defend themselves and that’s what the bill is about it’s not about anything inside the workplace,” Rep. Jackie Walorski-R Jimtown said.

The vote in the House was 74-20 the bill now moves on to the Senate. There are still some big issues that remain unresolved, unemployment insurance bill and issues relating to school funding for spending flexibility so they can avoid teacher layoffs.

The speaker is pushing for legislators to end this session by midnight Thursday or soon there after.