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ralewis wrote:

austinrealtor wrote:

ralewis wrote:When I joined Lifetime Fitness in N. Austin about 2 years ago, part of the routine was to review their member rules. The guy that walked me thru this read the handbook as we went thru it and said the words "no guns are permitted at Lifetime fitness". I took this to mean that I had a verbal notification not to carry in their facility. Given that, I'm not sure the 30.06 sign would be even relevant correct?

A valid 30.06 sign is very relevant to anyone who was not verbally told "no guns allowed" and to potential new members walking in off the street. If I was in the market for a gym and saw that sign on the door, I would just drive on to the next closest gym and give them my business (then write a formal business letter to the manager of this gym and CEO at corporate with a copy of my new contract with their competitor and an explanation of why they missed out on my business).

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So, my feeling is I like LIfetime Fitness better than anywhere else, and practically speaking I'm not sure I'm comfortable disarming in a locker room prior to working out. I suppose one option would be to carry in a fanny pack or some other way so that I could just put a container in the locker with my street clothes. But since I was given 'verbal notice', I suppose that option is out. I did ask if that policy extended to law enforcement, and he said it did.

I like Lifetime because it is close to where I live and the facilities are nice. I generally can't stand supporting businesses that (successfully) deny me my ability to defend myself, but I also don't carry while I'm working out. I can't practically conceal a handgun under a t-shirt and gym shorts. They also have a rule against gym bags in the weight room.

Their "policy" may extend to LEO's, but the law (PC 30.06) doesn't, so I guess the worst they could do is cancel their memberships. A lot of "Feds" and local LEO's work out in my location and I suspect they carry into the locker room, though I haven't directly seen it. I think I've also seen them violating the no gym bags in the weight room policy too.

G26TR wrote:Was their sign portable, or permanately posted? The North Austin location sign was just sitting on floor slanted against window - at least the last time I stopped in! The letters were definitely at least 1" and it also had two languages... Other than the fact that I could go up and knock sign over, face down, in a heartbeat, it appears compliant in context. Note that it's sitting on floor and definitely not at eye level. It was, however, huge in size!

It was attached to the right hand side entrance window with middle of the sign at maybe chest level and was very conspicuous. I didn't get a chance to snap a pic.

I just saw one at the Flower Mound location. They used to have a one liner "Lifetime Bans Guns" sign, but this new one looked pretty compliant. It was huge, black on white, and in English and Spanish. I didn't whip out my digital micrometer to see if the letter were one inch, but they probably were.