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Yep.
I'm only minutes away also, maybe we could go up sometime. I have a very flexible schedule.
Yep.
Welcome to OCDO, just a note...you will need thicker skin and open mind to participate in OCDO. We don't hold back in trying to get it right. We hold each other to a high standard and expect the law to be quoted and analyzed and for those that participate to get it right. If you think that everything you do will get you a high five then you have much to learn. If you are willing to learn then you will be enlightened in ways you didn't know existed.
Made my way down to Seattle today to peruse around REI with my wife. OCing the whole time, of course. No negative interactions, which was great. In a different thread someone had mentioned Costco might kick you out. So, I stopped there on my way back from REI. I had to get a few things so it's not like I went there just to walk around OCing. It was the Costco behind the Everett Mall, right off highway 5. Nobody said anything, except a customer behind me in line. He said "It's dangerous just walking around with one of those." He was saying it to someone he was with. All I could think was, "Guns aren't dangerous, irresponsible people with guns are dangerous." Well that's it for today, stay safe, stay strapped.
Glad to hear everything was a non-issue, as it should be! Get anything good at REI? Oh and if ya haven't seen it already, here's the letter that M1Gunr got back from Costco. If there was a Sam's Club closer, I'd probably just say Costco can suck it, but for now I just CC so I don't have to deal with the possibility of getting the boot/membership revoked.
Dear Ken,
"""Costco does not believe that it is necessary for firearms to be brought into its warehouse stores"""
Funny about the person behind ya saying that it's dangerous carrying that thing around...yah, for criminals maybe. But that's a good thing! (although I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that this person thinks that guns jump out of holsters on their own)
Dear Ken,
Thank you for your email to Costco Wholesale.
In reference to your inquiry on our policy disallowing the carrying of firearms in our warehouse stores.
Costco does not believe that it is necessary for firearms to be brought into its warehouse stores, except in the case of authorized law enforcement officers. For the protection of all our members and employees, we feel this is a reasonable and prudent precaution to ensure a pleasant shopping experience and safe workplace. Our policy is meant to protect our members and employees in all warehouses around the world. This is not a new policy and we do not customize the policy for each individual city/county/state/country where we do business.
Bringing a firearm into our warehouse does not enhance the shopping experience. We are sorry the message you are hearing is that we don't want you. It is the firearms that we exclude in the warehouses, not the carriers.
Thank you,
Susan
Costco Wholesale Corporation
memberservice@costco.com
Do we always notice that one, or couple of folks in a store whispering out of literally hundreds of shoppers, it’s like we find the needle in the haystack every time. Reminds me of watching the entertainingly stupid show s like “finding Bigfoot” and that one noise heard in the forest, well only a squatch could make that noise, or ghosthunters when one yells and the others follow suit as if they all just seen the devil himself. I think we look for things that fit our situation, perhaps misinterpret, because we seek it, expect it, and want it.
Yeah, I'd have to agree with you. But when someone is right next to you and staring at your gun, well, lets just assume I didn't misinterpret the situation. That's a lovely psychoanalysis, you'd make Freud proud.
So, I had to go grocery shopping today. I went over to Trader Joe's. Nobody directly said anything to me, but I heard a lot of whispering. It felt like I was walking around with a strange deformity (no offense intended). However, I wasn't kicked out for OCing which was worth the murmurs. I then headed to Fred Myers. I got a few looks, no whispers though. After that went to the CoOp off Grand Ave. Nothing there as well. Then I stopped at QFC and the connecting Starbucks. It seems people only talk about you and not with you. Other than that easy pezy.
You know what I found works great when someone is staring at my gun. I ask them politely if they would like to know anything, I noticed they were looking at my firearm.
Have had lots of great conversations with people that way.
Did you buy anything at Whole Foods? or did you just go in to walk around?
Where's the video of the encounters you are describing? Quite often when people start carrying or carrying openly for the first time are rather hyper sensitive about others around them, kinda like stage fright.
Or are people looking your way because someone is video taping you as you walk around? Are you auditioning for Operation Repo with all those cameras? :lol:
Did you buy anything at Whole Foods? or did you just go in to walk around?