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Well It had to happen to me sooner or later. I do my best to Avoid Walmart at all costs and normally spend my money else where, but sometimes when you need certain items they are the place to go to.So without further ado, here is my documented incident at WalmartAt approximately 10:20pm, Sat July 5th 2008, I entered the Walmart located on Glenwood an State St openly carrying my Kimber .45 in my hip holster. I grabbed a nearby cart and continued walking in, moments later an older gentleman (The store greeter) approached me from behind and positioned himself to my side, saying Sir, you can't carry a firearm in here, I asked why not? the greeter responded by stating "because it's store policy we don't allow firearms in the store". I asked if this policy was publicly posted, he paused and had no answer, he then asked if I was a LE officer, in which I said No. he then repeated that Walmart does not allow Firearms in the store. I told the old gent to have a nice night and turned around and exited the store, I walked back to my truck to secure my firearm, pulled my shirt over my now empty holster and walked back towards the store.
I was never asked to leave, Just told they do not allow civilians to legally carry a firearm in the store.
Upon walking into the store again, this time unarmed, The same old gent (greeter) seen me, this time he was mad dogging me and wasn't look at me, but was staring directly at the lump where my empty holster was located, The greeter said nothing as I walked by him, I then made my way to the Cleaning section where I needed some cleaning agents.
At this point I was half way down the isle of the cleaning section, when an older short grey hair lady hollered at me from the end of the isle saying "We Don't allow firearms in the Store" I turned, looked at the lady, lifted up the right side of my shirt exposing my now empty holster, and hollered back "Does this look like a firearm to you?" she noticed my holster was empty and walked away.
It's obvious the old greeter thought I re-entered the store concealing my firearm because of the bulge created by my empty holster under my shirt, and alerted other staff to deal with the "situation".
After selecting the items I needed, I exited the isle and observed the same lady who just hollered at me talking to 3 other people, I approached the older lady to ask why the store policy on firearms is not publicly posted, as I was approaching the lady and 3 others, I could hear one of the others saying "These people scare our customers, that's why we don't allow it", she paused for a moment glancing at the others, and then said "These people are strange and weird" While I didn't hear her directly reference me, it was obvious she was referring to me, and those of us who exercise our 2nd amendment rights.
When I approached their location, I politely asked the older lady who had just hollered at me moments earlier why they don't publicly post their firearms policy, the older lady side stepped and pointed to the other lady who was addressing the others with the above statements and introduced her as "Cheryl" the store manager. I asked Cheryl why they don't allow firearms? she responded and stated that Walmart is private property, and that it's their store policy. I asked why this policy is not publicly posted? she just looked at me and didn't provide an answer, she then offered to provide me the contact information of their legal team to address this policy, I politely responded with a "No thanks", and said I would be contacting Corporate about this incident and walked away.
After paying for my items and walking down the hall of shame, I noticed the old greeter sitting down, as I got closer to the exit, he noticed me, stood up, took a couple steps forward while staring intently at me, at this point I was expecting him to ask me to see my reciept, in fact I was hoping he would, so I could tell him to politely piss off, as this is now my Property, but the greeter never asked me
I was disappointed.
Once I got to my truck, I re-holstered my weapon and drove down the street to Los Betos mexican resturant on State St and had a kick ass super nacho meal, while OC'ing there without incident, the place was actually packed with about 30-35 people. young and old were all having a good time laughing and eating.
the Cashier/Order taker knows me as a regular customer, and is always admiring my firearms, and has told me he doesn't mind it at all. I have often educated the workers and the manager about thier gun rights, the manager at this location approves of me OC'ing my firearm, as they were once robbed at Gunpoint about a year ago, and feels safer when his customers are armed.
While on the subject of Los Betos, I spotted a young man OC'ing a revolver at Los Betos a couple weeks ago, after finishing my meal. I approached the young man and asked if he was a member on here, it turned out to be BlackFox who is a regular member here.
in short, gonna generate a nice letter and shoot it off to Corporate tomorrow. I doubt it will change anything, but you can bet I won't be spending a single penny there from now on.
Grrrrr:cuss:
Well It had to happen to me sooner or later. I do my best to Avoid Walmart at all costs and normally spend my money else where, but sometimes when you need certain items they are the place to go to.So without further ado, here is my documented incident at WalmartAt approximately 10:20pm, Sat July 5th 2008, I entered the Walmart located on Glenwood an State St openly carrying my Kimber .45 in my hip holster. I grabbed a nearby cart and continued walking in, moments later an older gentleman (The store greeter) approached me from behind and positioned himself to my side, saying Sir, you can't carry a firearm in here, I asked why not? the greeter responded by stating "because it's store policy we don't allow firearms in the store". I asked if this policy was publicly posted, he paused and had no answer, he then asked if I was a LE officer, in which I said No. he then repeated that Walmart does not allow Firearms in the store. I told the old gent to have a nice night and turned around and exited the store, I walked back to my truck to secure my firearm, pulled my shirt over my now empty holster and walked back towards the store.
I was never asked to leave, Just told they do not allow civilians to legally carry a firearm in the store.
Upon walking into the store again, this time unarmed, The same old gent (greeter) seen me, this time he was mad dogging me and wasn't look at me, but was staring directly at the lump where my empty holster was located, The greeter said nothing as I walked by him, I then made my way to the Cleaning section where I needed some cleaning agents.
At this point I was half way down the isle of the cleaning section, when an older short grey hair lady hollered at me from the end of the isle saying "We Don't allow firearms in the Store" I turned, looked at the lady, lifted up the right side of my shirt exposing my now empty holster, and hollered back "Does this look like a firearm to you?" she noticed my holster was empty and walked away.
It's obvious the old greeter thought I re-entered the store concealing my firearm because of the bulge created by my empty holster under my shirt, and alerted other staff to deal with the "situation".
After selecting the items I needed, I exited the isle and observed the same lady who just hollered at me talking to 3 other people, I approached the older lady to ask why the store policy on firearms is not publicly posted, as I was approaching the lady and 3 others, I could hear one of the others saying "These people scare our customers, that's why we don't allow it", she paused for a moment glancing at the others, and then said "These people are strange and weird" While I didn't hear her directly reference me, it was obvious she was referring to me, and those of us who exercise our 2nd amendment rights.
When I approached their location, I politely asked the older lady who had just hollered at me moments earlier why they don't publicly post their firearms policy, the older lady side stepped and pointed to the other lady who was addressing the others with the above statements and introduced her as "Cheryl" the store manager. I asked Cheryl why they don't allow firearms? she responded and stated that Walmart is private property, and that it's their store policy. I asked why this policy is not publicly posted? she just looked at me and didn't provide an answer, she then offered to provide me the contact information of their legal team to address this policy, I politely responded with a "No thanks", and said I would be contacting Corporate about this incident and walked away.
After paying for my items and walking down the hall of shame, I noticed the old greeter sitting down, as I got closer to the exit, he noticed me, stood up, took a couple steps forward while staring intently at me, at this point I was expecting him to ask me to see my reciept, in fact I was hoping he would, so I could tell him to politely piss off, as this is now my Property, but the greeter never asked me
I was disappointed. Once I got to my truck, I re-holstered my weapon and drove down the street to Los Betos mexican resturant on State St and had a kick ass super nacho meal, while OC'ing there without incident, the place was actually packed with about 30-35 people. young and old were all having a good time laughing and eating.
the Cashier/Order taker knows me as a regular customer, and is always admiring my firearms, and has told me he doesn't mind it at all. I have often educated the workers and the manager about thier gun rights, the manager at this location approves of me OC'ing my firearm, as they were once robbed at Gunpoint about a year ago, and feels safer when his customers are armed.
While on the subject of Los Betos, I spotted a young man OC'ing a revolver at Los Betos a couple weeks ago, after finishing my meal. I approached the young man and asked if he was a member on here, it turned out to be BlackFox who is a regular member here.
in short, gonna generate a nice letter and shoot it off to Corporate tomorrow. I doubt it will change anything, but you can bet I won't be spending a single penny there from now on.
Grrrrr:cuss:
