Fired for admitting legal ownership of a gun? Now I’m just goping to guess the association can fire anyone for any reason apart from certain specific kinds of illegal discrimination. But when some ask why gun owners feel persecuted, well this goes on the list. Losing a job of 20+ years is a huge blow to anyone. Could wreck a family.

CROWN POINT | A former Lakes of the Four Seasons employee is suing the gated community’s property owners association because he claims he was illegally fired for being a gun owner.

Nino Ferlaino, who worked as a seasonal landscaping employee at LOFS for 21 years, says in a lawsuit filed Monday in Lake Circuit Court that he was confronted by a supervisor two days after he told co-workers he is a gun owner.

The supervisor, Doug Weiss, on July 2 asked Ferlaino if it was true he carried a gun, the lawsuit says. Ferlaino claims he replied he owned a gun but did not carry it on him at work.

Weiss told Ferlaino that Weiss had met with the property owners association’s board of directors July 1 and that Ferlaino’s conversation with his co-workers violated the company’s “no tolerance policy,” the lawsuit says. Ferlaino says he was fired July 2.