Business and Firearms: Let's Take a Look

Kielma’s thoughts, I never, ever go into a business that prohibits firearms…EVER, these businesses do not deserve my money. Shame on them. What's your plan?

Let’s take a look below at what an avid reader of my blog has to say about this subject…

A group of 8 of us meet each Friday at noon at a local restaurant. One Friday as we arrived, we all noticed the new “No Guns” sign in the door glass.

We discussed it at the table as 6 of us were carrying. The manager often stopped by our table as we were regulars and all tipped well. We decided we would leave it to the manager how we would respond and so when he came by our table, I brought the subject up with him. I told him that most of us carry and we had noticed the new sign in the window and we wanted to know whether we were welcome there carrying or whether we should have our gathering at another restaurant.

He was quick to say that the window decals came down from corporate (this was a franchise restaurant) and that he was required to put the sign in the window as mandated by their insurance company. He said he was not only fine with us carrying but it made him feel more secure both for himself, his staff, and other patrons knowing that there were multiple well trained shooters present.

This has been my process every time I see a sign in the window, (unless I just ignore it) as I can understand a company doing such a thing at the dictates of their insurance company. It does not necessarily represent the local business’s attitude.

But I’m also one of those who simply ignores those signs at many places (post office as an example) as our state law stipulates that we cannot be prosecuted for carrying where such is posted unless they ask us to leave. If we remain after asked to leave, then we are trespassing and can be legally removed or prosecuted.