REDFIVE48
Regular Member
So you may have read the title and be thinking I must be an idiot to not know, but keep reading.
I was attending my kids basketball game this Saturday, just like have for the past 5 weeks at the Baptist Church gym where the league plays. I am not a member of the church, it's just that my kids play in the Upward league there. Just like I have for the last 5 weeks of games and practices I was OC. This week a couple of older guys were standing by the front door of the gym when I walked in and they stopped me and said that I can't bring my gun in the gym. I asked them why that was, it's not illegal. One replied that it was illegal, so I asked him to list the statute that made it illegal to which he said we could go across the street to the sheriff station and they could tell me. He also said I couldn't carry into Walmart this way either, so I knew he was pretty ignorant.
Obviously dealing with this person wasn't going to go anywhere because the law is whatever he thought it was, I asked him if he considered me trespassing at this point. They said no, but I can't bring in my gun. They said they were members of the church (to which I interpreted they were saying they were board members, as opposed to just random attendees) and I needed to store my weapon in the car. So, now back to my question, the guys were standing in the lobby like a lot of other parents and guests, not wearing name tags or anything, and I don't attend the church so wouldn't know them from the next guy. How do you determine if someone in that situation has the authority to have you arrested for trespass?
To complete the story, I did store my weapon and watched the game, but not before the 2 guys tried to make nice and say they were are on the way to the Charlotte Gun Show, like guns, have CHP's, and if he could, he would carry 6 guns on him. I laughed at him, he probably thought because I enjoyed his comment, I laughed because I thought he was so dumb it was funny. Didn't have any fliers on me that day and forgot to mention that they should stop by the GRNC table and get educated.
Oh yeah, there are no signs posted on any doors, but you knew that already because I wouldn't have walked in OC if there were.
I was attending my kids basketball game this Saturday, just like have for the past 5 weeks at the Baptist Church gym where the league plays. I am not a member of the church, it's just that my kids play in the Upward league there. Just like I have for the last 5 weeks of games and practices I was OC. This week a couple of older guys were standing by the front door of the gym when I walked in and they stopped me and said that I can't bring my gun in the gym. I asked them why that was, it's not illegal. One replied that it was illegal, so I asked him to list the statute that made it illegal to which he said we could go across the street to the sheriff station and they could tell me. He also said I couldn't carry into Walmart this way either, so I knew he was pretty ignorant.
Obviously dealing with this person wasn't going to go anywhere because the law is whatever he thought it was, I asked him if he considered me trespassing at this point. They said no, but I can't bring in my gun. They said they were members of the church (to which I interpreted they were saying they were board members, as opposed to just random attendees) and I needed to store my weapon in the car. So, now back to my question, the guys were standing in the lobby like a lot of other parents and guests, not wearing name tags or anything, and I don't attend the church so wouldn't know them from the next guy. How do you determine if someone in that situation has the authority to have you arrested for trespass?
To complete the story, I did store my weapon and watched the game, but not before the 2 guys tried to make nice and say they were are on the way to the Charlotte Gun Show, like guns, have CHP's, and if he could, he would carry 6 guns on him. I laughed at him, he probably thought because I enjoyed his comment, I laughed because I thought he was so dumb it was funny. Didn't have any fliers on me that day and forgot to mention that they should stop by the GRNC table and get educated.
Oh yeah, there are no signs posted on any doors, but you knew that already because I wouldn't have walked in OC if there were.
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