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how do you know if it's just the request of the employee
Doesn't matter. The employee represents the store. It's within their authority. What do you want, a registered letter from the owner, or each and every shareholder?
Do you have a right to ask for a copy of the specific company policy?
You can ask for anything you want.
Can you still legally carry concealed in a business that has a firearms ban?
Well it's not a crime in Washington until it rises to the level of trespassing.
If the store really does ban guns on the premises, then they are required to have a sign on the front store window incidcating this policy.
Not in Washington. In fact, they could choose to ban one person carrying and not another. Or they could leave it up to each individual employee. They could predicate it on their mood, or what color you are wearing. They really have full autonomy, no notice required. It is private property, after all.
I've found it's often hard to convince store employees that it's my right as a U.S. and Washington citizen to carry my pistol.
But it's not when you're on private property. Maybe that's where your trouble lies. They might be smarter than you think.
Unless it was a store manager or someone else with the authority to ask me to leave the property I would keep on wave and keep on walking
You are setting yourself up nicely for a trespassing charge.
*edit* note, this is from the store manager or other person in power, who is not subordinate to a larger corporate policy.
Please explain how a private corporate policy which can be changed and enforced on a mere whim, which they have no obligation to share with anyone, has any bearing on a criminal trespass charge?
