The Big Guy
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My wife and I were in Lee's Liquors at Boulder Hwy and College Ave in Henderson on the evening of Oct 11th and were confronted by a manager named Allan. I was carrying myTaurus85 on my belt as I always do. When we approached the check out I was asked by what turned out to be the manager "is that loaded?". I assured him in a friendly way that an unloaded firearm didn't have much use. He started shaking his head and fidgiting and said quote, "that feaks me out". I asked him why that was as I set my items on the counter. He told me that he is not used to seeing people carrying guns in a store and again that it "freaks him out". He told me he was from CA and had never seen that before. He then asked me not to bring it into the store again. He asked me to leave it in the car. I told him that I had been shopping in there nearly weekly since the store opened, and that I carry everywhere and that if he wanted my business this is the way he gets me. He then told me not to come in again if I was armed. I said that was fine and headed for the door leaving my items on the counter. Note that at no time did he say he was not going to sell to me that evening. Just don't come back again armed.
I tend to voice my displeasure with my money and would have simply never done business with Lee's again. In fact as an example I got mad at Sears in 1983 and have never stepped foot in a Sears store since. My wife on the other hand takes the opposite tactic. She confronts them. When she got to the car she told me she was going back in to get the managers name so she could contact Mr Lee and see what he had to say. While doing so, the manager went off on her and told her not to come back. Telling her that you can't just go into anywhere with a gun, for instance you can't just walk into a bank with a gun. She assured him that I go into Wells Fargo all the time with my gun and no one ever says anything. He told her he just didn't believe that. Guess she should have taken that as a challenge and and offerd to make a friendly Las Vegas bet with him.
My wife has contacted people within the Lee organization, another store manager and another person who just happens to have the last name "Lee", and they all assure her that it is definately not Lee's policy, that Allan hadno right totry to set store policy and that they have armed people who come in their stores regularly, and that we were welcome back anytime, open carry or not.
Asa side note, I went down the steet that evening to Sin City Liquor and walked in, had a nice chat with manager (owner?) there and he had no problem at all with the way I was dressed. To bad we have escapees from Arnolds zoo who want to come over here and tell us how to live.
My wife and I were in Lee's Liquors at Boulder Hwy and College Ave in Henderson on the evening of Oct 11th and were confronted by a manager named Allan. I was carrying myTaurus85 on my belt as I always do. When we approached the check out I was asked by what turned out to be the manager "is that loaded?". I assured him in a friendly way that an unloaded firearm didn't have much use. He started shaking his head and fidgiting and said quote, "that feaks me out". I asked him why that was as I set my items on the counter. He told me that he is not used to seeing people carrying guns in a store and again that it "freaks him out". He told me he was from CA and had never seen that before. He then asked me not to bring it into the store again. He asked me to leave it in the car. I told him that I had been shopping in there nearly weekly since the store opened, and that I carry everywhere and that if he wanted my business this is the way he gets me. He then told me not to come in again if I was armed. I said that was fine and headed for the door leaving my items on the counter. Note that at no time did he say he was not going to sell to me that evening. Just don't come back again armed.
I tend to voice my displeasure with my money and would have simply never done business with Lee's again. In fact as an example I got mad at Sears in 1983 and have never stepped foot in a Sears store since. My wife on the other hand takes the opposite tactic. She confronts them. When she got to the car she told me she was going back in to get the managers name so she could contact Mr Lee and see what he had to say. While doing so, the manager went off on her and told her not to come back. Telling her that you can't just go into anywhere with a gun, for instance you can't just walk into a bank with a gun. She assured him that I go into Wells Fargo all the time with my gun and no one ever says anything. He told her he just didn't believe that. Guess she should have taken that as a challenge and and offerd to make a friendly Las Vegas bet with him.
My wife has contacted people within the Lee organization, another store manager and another person who just happens to have the last name "Lee", and they all assure her that it is definately not Lee's policy, that Allan hadno right totry to set store policy and that they have armed people who come in their stores regularly, and that we were welcome back anytime, open carry or not.
Asa side note, I went down the steet that evening to Sin City Liquor and walked in, had a nice chat with manager (owner?) there and he had no problem at all with the way I was dressed. To bad we have escapees from Arnolds zoo who want to come over here and tell us how to live.