This is my understanding as well.
When I am over that way I will try to swing by and take a picture of the sign.
A few things the fed law doesn't apply if you have a LTCH, it also doesn't apply if you're on private property. All you would have to do is walk out and put it in your trunk before you left the parking lot.
I live I'm guessing less than 200 ft from a school. Heck I used to walk to pick up my daughter from it open carrying. That law doesn't apply on private property or if you have a LTCH.
They aren't.
I've seen variations of it several places. Guns carried for self defense keep it in your holster, bringing one in for any other reason service/sale/trade/buying a holster/etc have it in some sort of case/box/bag/whatever just don't come walking in with it in your hands. Gander Mtn went one further they check at the door and make sure it was unloaded and put a trigger lock on it. Or at least they did many years ago.
IMHO, it's irrelevant. I don't care what signs say. Signs don't carry the force of law in Indiana.
There’s no school nearby, but when I bought a gun at the Fort Wayne Rural King a few years ago, someone escorted me directly to the door from the gun counter. Last gun I got there about a year ago, they handed me the gun in the manufacturer’s S&W cardboard box as it had come to them and let me leave the gun counter to continue wandering the store as I pleased. When I finally paid for the items I’d bought in the store subsequent to my gun purchase, I had to tell the register dude that I’d already paid for the gun as he was about to try to run it through his register! Guess they’ve given up with the escorting.
I am so jealous of your ability to do that with impunity
Same scenario in the Avon store. I bought a ruger precision, they said you can’t handle it because it doesn’t have a trigger lock, but as soon as the paperwork was done, here’s your 15 pound rifle in a giant box to wander aimlessly through the store with while you find your wife and kids
Same scenario in the Avon store. I bought a ruger precision, they said you can’t handle it because it doesn’t have a trigger lock, but as soon as the paperwork was done, here’s your 15 pound rifle in a giant box to wander aimlessly through the store with while you find your wife and kids
Yes, I’m sure that’s it. A loaded magazine of .300 win mag weighs more than my carry gun
Not to mention how spectacular Mag dumps are from bolt guns!
Then you had absolutely no reason to disarm. Your LTCH exempts you from the 1000 foot rule.
Yes, I’m sure that’s it. A loaded magazine of .300 win mag weighs more than my carry gun
You just answered your own question: no, signs do not carry the weight of law.
Still don't care. A business can put up whatever sign it wants. I'm not obliged to comply with it.
Like LtScott put it. It's a rule not a law. It's up to the property owner to enforce their own rule by asking you to leave. Then if you refuse and only then can it become a matter of law if you are trespassed.
Oh no I got it, I wasn’t being snarky, far from it, sorry if it came across that way.
How about a tin cup?
Depends, do you think tape would meet the federal definition of a lock? Here is the applicable section of code. I remember from years ago a member was told to take it out to his car, but he was free to bring it back in with his receipt and get a refund if he'd like iirc. In that case I don't think they were trying to sell anything, just comply with what I'm sure is corporate policy.
