John Mazarakes, of Yonkers, says he never leaves home without his gun. That includes when he was working as a bartender at Showcase Cinema de Lux Ridge Hill

He says an incident in August where his gun was exposed wound up costing him his job.

Mazarakes says he helped an older man who was injured after falling on the theater’s escalator.

He says responding officers saw his gun.

A week after the incident, his manager fired him. Mazarakes says his termination is unjustified because his managers knew he carried a legal firearm.

According to the theater’s workplace violence prevention policy, the possession of a weapon is always prohibited on the property, including in the parking lot.

It says employees may not carry a weapon of any type.

The former officer says he has no plans to stop carrying his concealed firearm.