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If we're talking about notice by way of the website, wouldn't the effective notice of that be even more questionable than a proper 30.06 sign at a door other than the one we entered?

PaJ wrote:Just got home for the 3rd day in a row. Had to go ad part of work. I asked the LEO at the tent I was in. He said they were wrong to take away my knife and he didn't know anything about the entire grounds being posted 30.06. He suggested asking for an officer since the people working the metal detectors are minimum wage workers with no training.

I wish I had thought through it better. As said before I was disarming anyway so that didn't bother me. Not asking for clarification on the knife is slightly different, not because of value but principle.

Several of us went through similar junk with the Texas State Fair years ago. I even e-mailed several members of the Dallas City Council at the time and a few responded with questions to clarify and show them the law. I did and I know at least one other person on this forum also did. Possibly many others. It changed dramatically the following year to the disappointment of the Platinum Security folks.

If the place should not be posted due to being owned by the city then it can't hurt to start e-mailing some folks and pointing a few things in the law out to them. It also couldn't hurt to notify the TSRA.

treadlightly wrote:Thanks, Keith!

Reassuring, fewer traps out there.

And, hopefully, after this session there will be even fewer.

PaJ wrote:I was there last night. When entering the carnival area to get to the cookoff, everyone had to go through a metal detector. When I emptied my pockets, I had a small pocket knife and a larger knife. They didn't recognize the larger one as a knife, but made me throw the small one away or return it to my car but that was too far for the value of the knife. I wasn't carrying my gun because I planned to have a few adult beverages.

So, I guess its safe to say that you should leave the gun in the car.

I guess I'm a penny-pincher. I would have even returned my little $14 Kershaw Shuffle to the car. That is curious that they wouldn't even allow pocket knives. Talk about paranoid.