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Popular Restaurant Chain to Gun-Owning Customers: Don’t Bring Your Firearms in Our Stores
The Blaze ^ | 5-19-14 | Ap

Posted on 05/19/2014 6:09:37 PM PDT by TurboZamboni

Edited on 05/19/2014 6:18:59 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

NEW YORK (AP)

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Colorado; US: Connecticut; US: Florida; US: Texas; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: banglist; carry; chipotle; colorado; connecticut; dallas; denver; erikasotolamb; florida; guns; miami; newton; seattle; starbucks; texas; washington
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To: ctdonath2
By showing off his rod, you mean open carry? Seems he means (per the story) the guy's "assault weapon". Open carry, a la a politely holstered handgun, in a restaurant is one thing; hauling a good-sized rifle therein is something else. The guy is obviously there to cause trouble, be it agitating for sociopolitical recognition. Face it: save for very rare scenarios, walking into a restaurant chain carrying a rifle indicates one is trying to cause trouble.

i agree. though i wish i didn't have to. i think in your face actions like this do more harm than good. if they have an ask policy i will ignore and continue to conceal carry though i doubt i will visit their establishments. asking does not seem like a legal NO. my denverish local non chain food store has a NO GUNS ALLOWED sign on the door. i don't know how much weight this carries legally and will have to check.

61 posted on 05/19/2014 7:32:18 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (We should not fear our government. Our government should fear us.)
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To: dangerdoc
you trust those yabo's with good muzzle control ?

yup...profilin long gun carriers.....like always.

62 posted on 05/19/2014 7:33:13 PM PDT by onona (IÂ’ve pretty much given up on sanity returning.)
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To: TurboZamboni

I guess they don’t want gun owners to bring their dollars either.

I ate at one 12 or so years ago and have never been back.


63 posted on 05/19/2014 7:37:37 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: TurboZamboni

A logical thing to do, then would be to “protest” on public property with arms in plain sight, right in from of Chipitoles, and see how they like that.


64 posted on 05/19/2014 8:04:03 PM PDT by BobL
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To: TurboZamboni

I don’t go there anyhow

Dry bland hipster fetish fake Mexican food

Hipster progressives screw up everything they touch

Mexican food like a fine lady should never be enjoyed dry


65 posted on 05/19/2014 8:07:31 PM PDT by wardaddy (we will not take back our way of life through peaceful means.....i have 5 kids....i fear for them)
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To: Durus
I don’t recall that right in the Constitution...could you point that out to me?

Let's try the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment:

nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

Chipotle may decide who may do what on Chipotle property. People may decide whether they want to go on Chipotle property.

66 posted on 05/19/2014 8:12:37 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: gura
"Even in Israel where soldiers have rifles over their shoulders everywhere it’s with the mag out and no round chambered"

Not really:


67 posted on 05/19/2014 8:41:07 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Up yours NSA !)
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To: TurboZamboni

i am mighty regular and don’t need diarrhea firehole. no loss for me.


68 posted on 05/19/2014 9:08:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dangerdoc

Therefore a feasible false flag op for anti-rights libs to stage. (Not saying that’s what happened here, just musing on strategery)


69 posted on 05/19/2014 10:48:50 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: TurboZamboni

When are they going to rename themselves “Luby’s?”


70 posted on 05/19/2014 11:06:31 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (FUBO, and the useful idiots you rode in on!)
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To: Fledermaus

Biggest way to hurt them, bottom line PROFIT.


71 posted on 05/19/2014 11:24:12 PM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: TurboZamboni

sorry, Chipotle.

We’ll go to Chick fil A


72 posted on 05/19/2014 11:28:20 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: 04-Bravo
04-Bravo said: "But I don’t blame these businesses for taking a somewhat neutral stance, trying to keep the majority of their customers happy."

If everyone who would open carry decides not to do so, then how would a business know what keeps the majority of their customers happy?

Do you really think that a majority contacted management and said they were not happy? Or was this the weak-kneed minority who are too squeamish to defend themselves and expect jack-booted thugs to do it for them?

Obviously, the majority of Americans do not support any further gun control. There is no other possible explanation for the recent failure in a Democrat Senate to pass gun control.

Yet the anti-gunners assure us that the Senate is failing to do the will of the people.

Here in Kalifornia we await clarification of the Peruta court decision which recognizes that Kalifornia's recent ban on open carry must mean that they prefer concealed as the only legal way to bear arms.

The problem is that one cannot conceal a rifle. And yet who in their right mind can claim that our Founders were only protecting the right of the people to bear handguns.

We have a long way to go but I think now that we may get there. It's not helpful to have our side failing to recognize the RIGHT to keep and bear arms. To discourage those who would open carry is to join those who don't like the right and who would "discourage" it at every turn.

73 posted on 05/19/2014 11:35:16 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: Dogbert41
I believe those are magazine carriers similar to this. . .

The plastic carrier fits into the magazine well. . .

"For those who carry a magazine ready with an unloaded rifle. Insert upper part into magazine well to carry loaded magazine horizontally under weapon for instant use. Release, turn mag 90 degrees, and reinsert to load weapon. Keeps dust and debris out of action."

http://www.themakogroup.com/Detail.aspx?PROD=1035003

74 posted on 05/19/2014 11:36:01 PM PDT by deks (Sent from my BlackBerry Q10)
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To: Dogbert41
Dogbert41 said: "Not really:"

Thanks for posting the pictures. As has been said, "An unloaded gun is just a club".

75 posted on 05/19/2014 11:37:48 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: TurboZamboni

I don’t use eat out or shop places my CCW piece is NOT welcome.


76 posted on 05/19/2014 11:37:53 PM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: deks
deks said: "I believe those are magazine carriers similar to this. . . "

It sure looks like the same product in the pictures.

Although there is a claim that it keeps dust and debris out of the action, it would appear to allow dust and debris into the magazine. With the magazine inserted, then we are theoretically "dust free".

Neither mode of carrying the magazine insures an empty chamber, so I really fail to see the value.

77 posted on 05/19/2014 11:43:18 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: Farmer Dean
I’ve never eaten in one of their restaurants.I guess I never will now.

Neither have I and now it would seem that I now have even a bigger reason to not to.

78 posted on 05/20/2014 12:00:15 AM PDT by Ron H. (Impeach, Indict & Imprison the lying thieving criminal Barak Hussein Obama.)
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To: Bushbacker1
I wonder if they’ll post signs?

I am a regular customer but If they post the legally required signs in my local Texas Chipotle, I will never darken their doors again. The same thing happened recently with our Sprout's here in Texas. They have not seen me since.

79 posted on 05/20/2014 12:31:30 AM PDT by TexasRedeye (Eschew Obfuscation)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
but is actually owned by McDonald's

Micky D spun them off in 2006. I remember because my mother owned shares in MCD and called me in connection with the transaction.

Looking at the Wikipedia, it seems Chipotle was founded in Denver in 1993, and MCD invested heavily in 1998, when they had 16 restaurants. By the time MCD bailed, they had over 500. They now have 1600 locations.

80 posted on 05/20/2014 12:45:51 AM PDT by cynwoody
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