jeepinbanditrider
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Well I had to go to Wal-Mart today to get more cans of Krylon Desert Tan for my KLR. After being in the store for a good 20 mins we are back towards the kids isle getting something for my son and a gal of milk over at the dairy section.
I see a chuby guy and a tall guy in Wal-Mart garb tailing me and pointing at me with his radio antenna talking to the talk guy. I ignore them and continue shopping. Keep in mind I've probably got about 50+ bucks worth of stuff in my cart right now.
As I pull out a Gal of milk and put it in the cart he walks up and says:
"Excuse me sir, I'll have to ask you to leave if you are going to wear that firearm in here."
"Where are the signs on the front door saying I can't carry?"
"It's store policy sir that you can't carry."
"Can you show this to me in some book that ya'll may have?"
"Sir if you would like I can go get my "co-manager" and you can discuss this with him."
We discuss the usual anti vs. pro speak. He insists that I am some sort of safety/liability hazard and that anyone could come up and take my gun at a moments notice. I try to explain to him that no crazed killer is going to listen to some rule in a book somewhere or a sign on a door if they feel like killing people................yada, yada, yada, you know how this conversation usually goes. The whole timeother guy I'll call "the lackey" is just standing next to the short fat asst. manager staring me down the whole time.
"Co-Manager? Sure go get him, I'll leave if ya'll ask me to but Wal-Mart corporate WILL be getting a phone call and e-mails from me and I'm sure others on this subject, by the way you never answered me about the signs on the front door."
"I'll have to take care of that sir if I have too."
"So how come I've been in here about 5 other times Open carrying and not one employee or anyone else said anything to me. Not to mention the other Wal-Mart that I've shopped at for the past 4 years has never peeped a word to me about my handgun."
"They should sir it's store policy, I'm not allowed to carry a firearm."
"Hmm.... that could be because it's store policy that EMPLOYEES don't get to carry I'm willing to bet that, that rule says nothing about the CUSTOMERS."
"Sir once again I'll have to ask you to leave." At this point he goes off on a rant about how HE thinks that only police should carry out in public and blah blah blah needless to say I was getting tired of hearing him blab. So I said.....
"Fair enough Have fun with that buggy."
I grabbed my kid out of the buggy and walked out the door.
Then drove to the other supercenter on the other side of town and had a pleseant shopping experience with no one bothering me Iwonder just how much of a threat I looked like with abouncing 2.5 year old in the cart I was pushing LOL.
I'll be sending an e-mail to their corporate headquaters soon and even if signs do show up out there I'll just conceal carry in there. Not to mention take pictures of them and send those into corporate.
Edit-by the way the "Co-Manager" what ever the hell that is never showed up on the scene and here is the website if you feel like contacting their corporat headquaters along with me
http://www.walmartstores.com/GlobalWMStoresWeb/navigate.do?catg=224
Well I had to go to Wal-Mart today to get more cans of Krylon Desert Tan for my KLR. After being in the store for a good 20 mins we are back towards the kids isle getting something for my son and a gal of milk over at the dairy section.
I see a chuby guy and a tall guy in Wal-Mart garb tailing me and pointing at me with his radio antenna talking to the talk guy. I ignore them and continue shopping. Keep in mind I've probably got about 50+ bucks worth of stuff in my cart right now.
As I pull out a Gal of milk and put it in the cart he walks up and says:
"Excuse me sir, I'll have to ask you to leave if you are going to wear that firearm in here."
"Where are the signs on the front door saying I can't carry?"
"It's store policy sir that you can't carry."
"Can you show this to me in some book that ya'll may have?"
"Sir if you would like I can go get my "co-manager" and you can discuss this with him."
We discuss the usual anti vs. pro speak. He insists that I am some sort of safety/liability hazard and that anyone could come up and take my gun at a moments notice. I try to explain to him that no crazed killer is going to listen to some rule in a book somewhere or a sign on a door if they feel like killing people................yada, yada, yada, you know how this conversation usually goes. The whole timeother guy I'll call "the lackey" is just standing next to the short fat asst. manager staring me down the whole time.
"Co-Manager? Sure go get him, I'll leave if ya'll ask me to but Wal-Mart corporate WILL be getting a phone call and e-mails from me and I'm sure others on this subject, by the way you never answered me about the signs on the front door."
"I'll have to take care of that sir if I have too."
"So how come I've been in here about 5 other times Open carrying and not one employee or anyone else said anything to me. Not to mention the other Wal-Mart that I've shopped at for the past 4 years has never peeped a word to me about my handgun."
"They should sir it's store policy, I'm not allowed to carry a firearm."
"Hmm.... that could be because it's store policy that EMPLOYEES don't get to carry I'm willing to bet that, that rule says nothing about the CUSTOMERS."
"Sir once again I'll have to ask you to leave." At this point he goes off on a rant about how HE thinks that only police should carry out in public and blah blah blah needless to say I was getting tired of hearing him blab. So I said.....
"Fair enough Have fun with that buggy."
I grabbed my kid out of the buggy and walked out the door.
Then drove to the other supercenter on the other side of town and had a pleseant shopping experience with no one bothering me Iwonder just how much of a threat I looked like with abouncing 2.5 year old in the cart I was pushing LOL.
I'll be sending an e-mail to their corporate headquaters soon and even if signs do show up out there I'll just conceal carry in there. Not to mention take pictures of them and send those into corporate.
Edit-by the way the "Co-Manager" what ever the hell that is never showed up on the scene and here is the website if you feel like contacting their corporat headquaters along with me
http://www.walmartstores.com/GlobalWMStoresWeb/navigate.do?catg=224