Posted on 12/30/2015 7:58:16 AM PST by GIdget2004
One of the area's most popular Tex-Mex chains announced this week that it wouldn't allow the "open carry" of firearms in its locations across the Houston area.
The legal counsel for Gringo's Mexican Kitchen made it known that his client would not welcome patrons seeking to carry firearms openly.  Open carry becomes legal in Texas on Friday for firearms owners with concealed handgun licenses. State and local officials are trying to determine what recent changes in state law mean for the carrying of firearms in government buildings, but private businesses still can choose whether to permit weapons on the premises.
The chain's owner, Russell Ybarra, also owns the Jimmy Changas chain of family Tex-Mex eateries. It also will also not allow patrons to carry firearms openly.
A number of other eateries have already decided against allowing open carry.
This past week, the H-E-B grocery store chain and the owner of The Galleria announced they would be prohibiting open carry.
“We didn’t feel that it’s necessary to allow someone to open carry in an atmosphere where children and families frequent. Plus there is alcohol at our locations," Ybarra told the Houston Chronicle on Monday.
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Does that include robbers?........................
Those in favor of open carry should boycott them and see if they don’t have a change of heart.
Nope, keep those weapons concealed.
Robbers, who are probably NOT licensed for concealed carry, will conceal anyway. This is all stupidity! People have to be licensed for conceal carry to carry openly. It just means they will carry anyway, you just won’t know.
It’s interesting how so many of these places have been throwing out the ‘we sell alcohol’ excuse for banning open carry. By the letter of the law, that excuse only works if the business derives more than 51% of their revenue from the sale of alcohol (ie. a bar or liquor store). These restaurant and grocery stores don’t sell that much booze.
I have no problem with a business exercising it’s right as the owner of a property to restrict carry on that property, subject to two conditions:
1) Signs must be posted prohibiting the carry of firearms
2) The business assumes liability for any and all injuries that occur when a citizen has been denied their right to carry.
Do they still have Papasito’s in Houston?
Gun owners in General should boycott them.
Nope, keep those weapons concealed.
Exactly.
Would they allow a homosexual reception to be held there??
Show up en masse.
What is their seating capacity?
Show up with twice that number.
In Houston, Gringo’s used to be THE place to go for good, inexpensive fajitas. The cost has gone up and the quality has come down in recent years and now I know why — their management worries about trivial things rather than providing a good dining experience for their customers.
Gringo’s Mexican Kitchen?
Can you imagine the howls if there was a restaurant chain called “Wetback’s Tacos?” “Gringo” is a pejorative slang for white men.
I haven’t been listening to Michael Berry today I wonder if he has mentioned this. I know the restaurant owner is a friend of his, he mentions his name often,
They’re not refusing concealed carry, just open carry. The only reason why I like open carry laws is because I can’t be cited if my concealed weapon prints or is momentarily revealed when I reach on a high shelf in the store.
Rural open carry is also probably fine where everybody knows you, but to open carry in Houston or Dallas, I wouldn’t.
If you do open carry, use a good holster with positive retention. My open carry holster is a Safariland holster with Automatic Locking System (ALS.)
Better than nothing, but still, any requirement for a permit or license violates the second amendment. What part of "shall not be infringed" do they fail to understand?
...Nope, keep those weapons concealed.
Exactly...
You have a right to carry openly. However, it seems like open carry makes the carrier a primary target rather than a primary deterrent to an armed thug. Concealed carry doesn’t for an obvious reason.
I think I just identified the real problem...
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