cbr6864r wrote:I hope it last everyone on here needs to message kroger and let them know their actions are a welcome relief. Its the only place ill shop now. Give them your support
Kroger is based in Cincinnati Ohio. They went through several issues with some of their stores posting in Ohio after concealed carry passed in Ohio in 2004 (where a simple gunbuster sign has force of law).
There was a
lot of "polite interaction" with various 2A groups, primarily Ohioans for Concealed Carry and Buckeye Firearms which resulted in Kroger taking a public stance that they will support state law in whatever state they are operating. That policy was tested again when open carriers in Ohio encountered issues with some local store managers that also got escalated to corporate, where corporate clarified their policy to allow whatever is allowable under local law.
Heck, I open carried in Kroger many, many, many times when I lived in Ohio. Never a single issue.
By the time Moms Demand Action targeted Kroger a couple of years ago, Kroger had already had this policy in place for at least 8-9 years and had no desire to provoke another large reaction from the 2A community. I would not expect them to make any changes just for Texas.
Walmart has an interesting company policy at the corporate level. They will not post their stores. There have been instances where an individual store manager posted that store, but calls to corporate quickly had those signs taken down. However, in the case of open carry, the local store managers do have the authority to verbally ask someone to leave if they feel it is creating any issue inside the store such as a customer complaint. I did not open carry in Walmarts.
(There is an infamous case in Ohio regarding Walmart which resulted in one of the few documented convictions of a concealed carry licensee trespassing while armed. In that case, the Marion Ohio Walmart store manager verbally notified an unconcealed licensee that he wanted him to leave the store. The licensee argued back that the store was not properly posted with a sign per Ohio law and thus they could not make him leave. The police were called. The police witnessed the man still arguing they couldn't make him leave because there was no sign. His witnessed persistent refusal resulted in a trespassing conviction.)
He definitely has it attached to his belt, so I assume this is legal. LOL!
