The sign that I saw did not have the exception on it.WTR wrote:If you saw a sign without the exception it is old and not valid. The newer sign with the exception was signed into law in 2010. By Gov. Richards of all people.
I assumed that it was enforceable against licensed carry because the store sold hard liquor. In the New Mexico statute 30-7-6, exemption #4 talks about a place which does not sell alcohol for consumption. In the grocery store where I saw the sign, they had hard liquor in bottles and they sold pizza, etc at a little counter area. I assumed that you might be able to have a beer with your pizza. I thought that I might be drawing too fine of a line on the rules considering that if I was in error, it was a felony.
I'm a little more inclined to push the invalid sign limits in Texas than I am in another State. When in doubt, I'm going to error on the side of not taking a ride. We travel in an RV so I try to carefully read up on the handgunlaw.us descriptions before we go. Some of it isn't nearly as clear as the TPC.