EXACTLY!! I carry every time I go to Costco. If approached about that "bulge" (which there is NONE), I will say it is an insulin pump. In this time of COVID-19, I can't even imagine an employee bumping into anyone in their store. Like TAM says, just tell them whatever will make them go away.The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 3:44 pmALSO....chamberc wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:49 pmYou've also now been verbally notified by a manager and can never carry legally again in that Costco.mkc4091 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:28 pm Hi everyone,
I do have License to Carry and went to Costco today carrying concealed. I wore a t-shirt with another button shirt on top to conceal my Glock 17. One of employee accidentally bumped into me and she felt I have a gun underneath my shirt. She told me Costco do not allow carrying weapon in the store. I told her that there is no sign in front of the store that prohibit carrying a firearm and I told her I have a license to carry. After I checked out and as I walking out the door a manager runs after me and told me the same thing. I told him I have a license to carry and there is no sign any place prohibit me from carrying. He told me that Costco does not need to have a sign to prohibit carrying firearm; he also told me when I signed up for membership it stated in the policy.
Can business legally prohibit people from carrying firearms without a 30.06 or 30.07 sign?
Thanks
PLEASE resist the impulse to educate business owners/managers so that they know more efficiently how to keep ALL of us out of their stores!! Just STOP it.
If they don’t know that their signs have no value, too dang bad. It's their JOB to know. It's NOT your job to help them figure out how to infringe upon our rights.
FTR, I carry in Costco every time I go. It’s not 30.06/07 posted, so I don’t care. And I don’t inform people that I’m carrying. Unless you showed that employee your gun, he/she literally had no knowledge of what you were carrying. If asked, you could have said that it was your cellphone, or an insulin pump, or a portable cardiac monitor, or whatever. It’s none of her business to ask, so you’re under no obligation to tell her. Tell her whatever will make her go away.
Joe