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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
Fri Jul 17, 2015, 04:47 PM Jul 2015

7 Companies That Don't Want Guns In Their Stores

In June, Texas Gov. Greg Abbot signed legislation permitting people with proper licenses to carry handguns in plain view. Though this so-called "open carry" law won't take effect until January, one Texas restaurant chain has already prohibited visible firearms from its properties, and experts say other local eateries will follow.

While only 5 states and Washington, D.C., now ban open carry in public places, businesses can issue their own no-gun policies. In fact, a HuffPost/YouGov poll in 2014 found that 55 percent of Americans prefer that shops and restaurants forbid guns.

In recent years, several major restaurants and retailers across the country have asked customers to refrain from openly carrying firearms -- some have even banned concealed guns altogether from their locations. Here are a few of the businesses that have taken a stand against open carry laws:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/16/open-carry-guns-restaurants-companies_n_7802468.html

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7 Companies That Don't Want Guns In Their Stores (Original Post) mfcorey1 Jul 2015 OP
If some guy with a Big Ugly Gun slung across his back comes into a store Warpy Jul 2015 #1
exactly how I feel... dhill926 Jul 2015 #3
Same here. I really don't want to be around that. "What the fuck you lookin' at?" BlueJazz Jul 2015 #8
me too n/t prairierose Jul 2015 #4
Me too Hayduke Bomgarte Jul 2015 #6
Target? KamaAina Jul 2015 #2
Are we back to Guns Discussion again? Eleanors38 Jul 2015 #5
I guess you want it hidden, to protect your access to more gunz. Hoyt Jul 2015 #14
Two (2) groups. And you still can't build a "movement." nt Eleanors38 Jul 2015 #18
you really don't like people discussing guns out here do you? CreekDog Jul 2015 #16
Sorry, but the controller/banners aren't dominating anywhere even with two (2l groups... Eleanors38 Jul 2015 #19
For someone claiming a vanquished opposition, you sure gripe a lot. (nt) Paladin Jul 2015 #21
Oh, my gripe is how such a ragtag group still gets the backstage pass. Eleanors38 Jul 2015 #26
Oh, you can do it wherever you like, Creek. Just a diff of opinion on why Special Dispensation is Eleanors38 Jul 2015 #27
good for those companies. i applaud them. spanone Jul 2015 #7
Just more pointless feel good bullshit to appease the low hanging fruits out there 951-Riverside Jul 2015 #9
Name 10 congressional democrats who would support banning guns. nt Logical Jul 2015 #11
I can't, shameful isn't it? n/t 951-Riverside Jul 2015 #13
6 are Restaurants, 1 store irisblue Jul 2015 #10
it's insane to allow a non law enforcement armed stranger onto your property HFRN Jul 2015 #12
recommend samsingh Jul 2015 #15
As regards Texas, the sign shown in the HP story is in correct. Hangingon Jul 2015 #17
Gun culture sure likes their nitpicky regulations. onehandle Jul 2015 #20
In this case, if the sign isn't correct and properly "No Guns" is not enforceable. Hangingon Jul 2015 #23
At my store in Austin Jane Austin Jul 2015 #22
UNLOCKING Omaha Steve Jul 2015 #24
Kick etherealtruth Jul 2015 #25

Warpy

(111,412 posts)
1. If some guy with a Big Ugly Gun slung across his back comes into a store
Fri Jul 17, 2015, 04:51 PM
Jul 2015

or any other area while I am there, I will leave. That means no sale.

Mass murderers don't wear convenient labels, nor do self-styled Good Guys With Gunz. It is impossible to tell the difference.

I will always err on the side of caution. Allow gun fetishists into your store, you lose at least one and quite probably more sales.

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
8. Same here. I really don't want to be around that. "What the fuck you lookin' at?"
Fri Jul 17, 2015, 05:11 PM
Jul 2015

Nooo thank you.

Hayduke Bomgarte

(1,965 posts)
6. Me too
Fri Jul 17, 2015, 05:04 PM
Jul 2015

If a store allows customers to wander around armed, I will leave, and probably not ever come back.

CreekDog

(46,192 posts)
16. you really don't like people discussing guns out here do you?
Fri Jul 17, 2015, 05:44 PM
Jul 2015

not unless your side can dominate the conversation, which out here, in GD, they cannot.

so you try to shut it down or whine when you cant.

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
19. Sorry, but the controller/banners aren't dominating anywhere even with two (2l groups...
Fri Jul 17, 2015, 06:08 PM
Jul 2015

...and special dispensation for a forum. Take your arguments where ever you want, and you will be countered throroughly and effectively. Everytime.

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
27. Oh, you can do it wherever you like, Creek. Just a diff of opinion on why Special Dispensation is
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 01:05 PM
Jul 2015

accorded to controller/banners.

You know, back in the Old Daze, DU actually had a Forum for RKBA/GUN Control. But some folks worked to get that changed for whatever reason. Now, we have a group for open debate, and one for ironically-termed "activism.". The latter " whines" with the wind of activists past?

 

951-Riverside

(7,234 posts)
9. Just more pointless feel good bullshit to appease the low hanging fruits out there
Fri Jul 17, 2015, 05:16 PM
Jul 2015


It doesn't matter if you ban bullets, do stronger background checks, ban people from carrying weapons into a place, etc, etc. Nothing will stop a gunman from walking into a place and gunning down a bunch of people. As long as we continue to make it legal to manufacture, own and sell such destructive devices of death, these mass shootings will continue to happen.

If we are to ever make any real changes we need to have a constitutional convention to scrap the 2nd amendment and make all private firearm ownership a felony. If you want to go hunting go to the store and buy your food like a normal person or use an air rifle like in the UK. Anything less is just feel good bullshit.

The UK has the most ruthless radicals living there but you will never hear about a mass shooting there.

Why?

Because they banned guns.

irisblue

(33,044 posts)
10. 6 are Restaurants, 1 store
Fri Jul 17, 2015, 05:18 PM
Jul 2015

1. Whataburger
2. Chipotle
3. Panera Bread
4. Sonic
5. Chili's
6. Starbucks


and Target

 

HFRN

(1,469 posts)
12. it's insane to allow a non law enforcement armed stranger onto your property
Fri Jul 17, 2015, 05:21 PM
Jul 2015

i don't think this is controversial among rational people, even those mildly conservative

Hangingon

(3,071 posts)
17. As regards Texas, the sign shown in the HP story is in correct.
Fri Jul 17, 2015, 05:48 PM
Jul 2015

If they really do not want guns in the store, the need the official 30.06 sign. What's burger here did not have that sign posted as of a half hour ago. Sonic is usually a drive in. How does that work?

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
20. Gun culture sure likes their nitpicky regulations.
Fri Jul 17, 2015, 06:08 PM
Jul 2015

Too bad they ignore that part in the Second Amendment.

Hangingon

(3,071 posts)
23. In this case, if the sign isn't correct and properly "No Guns" is not enforceable.
Fri Jul 17, 2015, 06:22 PM
Jul 2015

This is a matter of Texas state law. My pocket edition of The Constitution of the United States in Amendment II has no part on "nit picky" regulations. Case law does allow states to set regulations that do not deprive citizens of their constitutional rights.

Omaha Steve

(99,827 posts)
24. UNLOCKING
Fri Jul 17, 2015, 06:22 PM
Jul 2015

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