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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: TurboZamboni

criminal invite!


81 posted on 05/20/2014 2:38:27 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: AppyPappy
Like the police?

Especially the police.

82 posted on 05/20/2014 2:44:38 AM PDT by southern rock
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To: ctdonath2; Ghost of Philip Marlowe
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.

Yesterday, I bought a good sized ax at Menard's, carried it on my shoulder all the way to the cashier and then to my car in the parking lot.

Not any different than carrying a "good sized rifle".

If businesses are going to ban guns, they should ban all tools.

83 posted on 05/20/2014 4:15:51 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. 1 Cor 16: 32)
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To: PAR35

Some jerk starts showing his rod in a restaurant, I’m going to be in reasonable fear for my life and the lives of others.


People who are knowledgable about guns or support gun rights never write using ganster slang for guns like “rod, packing heat, roscoe” etc.

Just saying.

And what is reasonable is based not on your reaction, but on normal other people. To suggest that you are in fear for your life means that you have the right to use deadly force. Which brands you as pretty much insane for thinking that mere display of a gun deserves your delivering the death penalty.

You clearly have had no firearm training of the type that one gets when qualifying for a carry license.


84 posted on 05/20/2014 5:04:29 AM PDT by Freeping Since 2001 (Since 2001. Seriously.)
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To: wonkowasright

I’m as RKBA as the next NRA Life Member but I cannot fathom what reason to bring a rifle into the restaurant. Handguns sure but rifles ?


Maybe to impress the cool chicks.

Or because you don’t want to leave it in the car (or motorcycle).


85 posted on 05/20/2014 5:08:04 AM PDT by Freeping Since 2001 (Since 2001. Seriously.)
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To: dangerdoc

The guys with their muzzles resting on bricks don’t deserve, no, let me rephrase, those weapons deserve better owners.


It’s just the flash hiders, so there’s no threat to the barrel crown.


86 posted on 05/20/2014 5:09:20 AM PDT by Freeping Since 2001 (Since 2001. Seriously.)
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To: Repeal 16-17

Chipotle isn’t a person it’s a corporation, regardless, no person or corporation can legally limit the rights of people on their property beyond what is specifically allowed by law, such as smoking regulations for example. As an individual your power to regulate peoples constitutional rights is limited to asking them to leave your property, or barring them entry. As a corporation running a business that is open to the public the legal ability to bar entry is legally limited as is their power to regulate behavior. As an example, in the State of NH, a business can’t legally deny entry or service to someone simply because they are bearing arms. There is nothing illegal about them posting their property with a sign asking people not to carry, and there is nothing illegal about people ignoring the sign.


87 posted on 05/20/2014 5:13:55 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: Fledermaus
They don't seem to be complaining about CCW, they're unhappy about people openly carrying semi-auto rifles. I'm as pro-2A as anybody, but if somebody open-carrying a rifle scared off any of my customers, I would ask them to leave my store as well.

Open-carry of rifles may be making a philosophical point, but it WILL cost us public support.

88 posted on 05/20/2014 5:22:28 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: TurboZamboni

They have been anti-Conservative for several years.


89 posted on 05/20/2014 5:24:28 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Freeping Since 2001
You have, inadvertently, made your point. I have no concern about concealed carry folks. They are generally among the most responsible folks in the community. As you say,

You clearly have had no firearm training of the type that one gets when qualifying for a carry license.

You can choose to align yourself with the Black Panther types who show up at school board meetings with their guns, but if I'm in a restaurant and a bunch of guys brandishing guns walks in, I'm leaving if I can, and doing what I need to if I can't. Some of us remember the guy who open carried into the Luby's in Killeen.

90 posted on 05/20/2014 6:10:02 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

The fact that carry usually requires training, and that this may contain a piece of useful information about the lawful use of deadly force in no way contradicts my point or makes yours.

You said that merely carrying at a graduation deserves to be punished with violence. I disagree, and believe that carrying should be a civil right even at educational institutions.


91 posted on 05/20/2014 7:31:56 AM PDT by Freeping Since 2001 (Since 2001. Seriously.)
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To: dangerdoc

Sorry dangerdoc, but if I saw this “Fatboy-Slim” combo walk into a restaurant with that hardware, I keeping an eye for the exit.(I don’t usually carry)

They remind me more of the Columbine losers than responsible carry members of the gun community...YMMV


92 posted on 05/20/2014 7:56:11 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: RedMonqey

Thus my concern that these “activists” may not be our “activists”


93 posted on 05/20/2014 8:07:54 AM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: tanknetter

If you are going to OC in Texas, your only option is long guns. No pistols.


94 posted on 05/20/2014 8:15:06 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (Tri nornar eg bir. Binde til rota...)
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To: wonkowasright

Because OC of pistols in Texas is verbotten.

Kinda hard to have an OC RKBA event if you don’t OC something.


95 posted on 05/20/2014 8:17:29 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (Tri nornar eg bir. Binde til rota...)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
They call it “concealed carry” for a reason. Unless they set up a metal detector or hire some off-duty TSA agents, they’ll never know.

Hey, why hire off-duty TSA agents? Ya gotta drive to Chipotle, right? And what's the "T" stand for?

Coming to a Chipotle near you!


96 posted on 05/20/2014 8:22:38 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Graybeard58

Buying a product sold in the store and carrying it out is one thing.
Walking into a restaurant carrying an axe would understandably persuade some of the clientele to clear out.

Context matters.


97 posted on 05/20/2014 9:06:07 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" - Obama, setting RoE with his opposition)
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To: dangerdoc
Maybe true, dangerdoc, maybe...
98 posted on 05/20/2014 10:03:15 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: DBrow
looks like it.
99 posted on 05/20/2014 10:10:47 AM PDT by arbitrary.squid
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To: Repeal 16-17

It does for this People.


100 posted on 05/20/2014 1:29:37 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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