Wstar425
Regular Member
Daughter lives in ABQ about a mile south of TSA. I have a Wisconsin CCL, which New Mexico does NOT honor, thus OC. Stood out front waiting on her, when she arrived we went inside and sat at a booth. Firearm side up against the wall.
An older guy, the cook I think came over and asked if that was a pistol on my belt. I said yes. He asked if I was a police officer. I said no. (Irrelevant) he said you will have to leave, you are not allowed inside the building. I asked why is that, and he just repeated you are not allowed inside the building. So, we left and went a couple blocks east to the Range? I think.
I had asked in the store if they sold alcohol, they don't. And they said no problem with a OC firearm.
Range was full , no parking and long wait. This was Sunday morning about 10 am. We went back to Little Anita's and had the worst breakfast and service I have ever had.
Went back to the TSA and asked to see the manager. When he came down he looked like he had been sleeping. I offered to shake his hand and when I got a limp wristed, wet dish wash cloth shake in return, I suspected this was not going to go well. I asked about those firearm policy and he said they follow the laws of the state. I told him I had been thrown out of the diner for OC by the guy who I thought was the cook. At that point I wasn't about to eat there any way. Manager said he must have thought I looked like a threat to the other customers. Keep in mind, I had just had a shower, had on a pink long sleeved shirt and clean jeans. I was the most clean cut, best dressed person there, including him. I asked him if I looked like a threat, and he just repeated that the guy must have thought I was. Carriying a Baby Desert Eagle IWB, hand never on firearm and never out of holster. Daughter is a professional at the hospital, and the best looking woman in that place in a long time!
I said well you are NOT following the laws of the state, since the law says I'm allowed to OC . He said they can refuse service to anyone they want to. I said well I won't be coming back here anymore and I will also be telling this story on the CB radio for the next week or so. He didn't seem to care.
I didn't get managers name, Hispanic guy about 35 with his left arm in some kind of a cast. Cook was a white guy about 60 or so, pretty tall.
Thought I did my homework, what did miss? Overall, visit to ABQ pretty unfriendly. I'm a truck driver, I was on my way to LA going that way due to bridge washouts north of Vegas on I-15. Then had a two truck, car collision in California at the 95 north cutoff, what a disaster. Delivering in La Mirada now.
An older guy, the cook I think came over and asked if that was a pistol on my belt. I said yes. He asked if I was a police officer. I said no. (Irrelevant) he said you will have to leave, you are not allowed inside the building. I asked why is that, and he just repeated you are not allowed inside the building. So, we left and went a couple blocks east to the Range? I think.
I had asked in the store if they sold alcohol, they don't. And they said no problem with a OC firearm.
Range was full , no parking and long wait. This was Sunday morning about 10 am. We went back to Little Anita's and had the worst breakfast and service I have ever had.
Went back to the TSA and asked to see the manager. When he came down he looked like he had been sleeping. I offered to shake his hand and when I got a limp wristed, wet dish wash cloth shake in return, I suspected this was not going to go well. I asked about those firearm policy and he said they follow the laws of the state. I told him I had been thrown out of the diner for OC by the guy who I thought was the cook. At that point I wasn't about to eat there any way. Manager said he must have thought I looked like a threat to the other customers. Keep in mind, I had just had a shower, had on a pink long sleeved shirt and clean jeans. I was the most clean cut, best dressed person there, including him. I asked him if I looked like a threat, and he just repeated that the guy must have thought I was. Carriying a Baby Desert Eagle IWB, hand never on firearm and never out of holster. Daughter is a professional at the hospital, and the best looking woman in that place in a long time!
I said well you are NOT following the laws of the state, since the law says I'm allowed to OC . He said they can refuse service to anyone they want to. I said well I won't be coming back here anymore and I will also be telling this story on the CB radio for the next week or so. He didn't seem to care.
I didn't get managers name, Hispanic guy about 35 with his left arm in some kind of a cast. Cook was a white guy about 60 or so, pretty tall.
Thought I did my homework, what did miss? Overall, visit to ABQ pretty unfriendly. I'm a truck driver, I was on my way to LA going that way due to bridge washouts north of Vegas on I-15. Then had a two truck, car collision in California at the 95 north cutoff, what a disaster. Delivering in La Mirada now.
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