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C-dub wrote:

poppo wrote:

cb1000rider wrote:If you saw it, then you know you shouldn't carry. Bottom line.
If you carry past and get caught, will you be successfully prosecuted? Maybe. What if you went in an alternate entrance? Same answer.
State law does not require that every entrance be posted, just that is is conspicuously posted...

While I am not advocating disregarding signs, if there is not one at the entrance I am going into, then it was not conspicuously posted. The definition of conspicuously is "easily seen or noticed; readily visible or observable". IMO that does not mean one should have to go to every entrance check if one is posted. Have I ever gone into a place that had a sign that was posted at some other entrance? I don't know, since I never saw one conspicuously posted where I entered.

As for getting caught and being prosecuted, since this debate has been going on forever, and I don't recall ever hearing of a single incident of either, I personally am not going to lose any sleep over it.

Your own definition doesn't even say that you must have seen the sign. A sign, such as those at the Grapevine Mills Mall, are conspicuous (albeit with incorrect verbiage) and meet your definition. And as JBarn mentioned, a judge or jury will decide that if anyone gets caught with a gun a place like that. Also, IIRC, I don't think such a case has made it to court yet for a ruling on this type of situation.

Additionally, while I'm not a lawyer, I'm not sure that if only the mall's main entrances are posted that they wouldn't also apply to the individual stores since they all lease their space from the mall owners. I don't know of a mall that is properly posted and I hardly ever go to a mall anyway, so it's kind of a moot point for me.