dwetnight
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I was making my regular biweekly stop the National Pawn on Roxboro St. in Durham yesterday evening on my way home from work. After a few minutes of looking around the store I was approached by one of the clerks. She started off by asking for my concealed permit, which is odd as I was not concealing my .45. After I frustrated her by telling her that I did not have a permit and did not need one to open carry in NC, she walked off. A few minutes latter I was approached by the manager who it seems was trying to get me to take my gun out of the store without actually saying that I had to leave. She asked me if I thought it was a good idea to carry when it was making her employees nervus because it was a bad part of town. I countered that I would be nervus in that part of town without my pistol. She tried to tell me that I could not carry there because they were considered a financial institution, which I countered by telling her that open carry in banks was legal if the door was not posted with a sign indicating otherwise, her door was not posted. I asked her I she wanted me to leave, she wouldn't say that she did. She kept asking me if I wanted to "push the issue", which was a bit confusing, as I was minding my own business until they bothered me. Once she exhosted all of her arguments short of asking me to leave she gave up and I continued looking around the store for a few more minutes before continuing home. I found the whole event rather amusing, especially for a place that buys and sells guns in a "bad" part of town.
I am curious to know if anyone here has info on the pawn shop as financial institution issue. I would not imagine that they would qualify for the same concealed carry prohabition as banks, but I don't know for sure.
This is my first encounter with resistance since I started open carrying. I carry pretty much everywhere possible since I started in Dec. I intend to continue open carry in this pawn shop until they put up a sign or actually tell me that I can not. If they do so I guess I will have to stop shopping there.
I was making my regular biweekly stop the National Pawn on Roxboro St. in Durham yesterday evening on my way home from work. After a few minutes of looking around the store I was approached by one of the clerks. She started off by asking for my concealed permit, which is odd as I was not concealing my .45. After I frustrated her by telling her that I did not have a permit and did not need one to open carry in NC, she walked off. A few minutes latter I was approached by the manager who it seems was trying to get me to take my gun out of the store without actually saying that I had to leave. She asked me if I thought it was a good idea to carry when it was making her employees nervus because it was a bad part of town. I countered that I would be nervus in that part of town without my pistol. She tried to tell me that I could not carry there because they were considered a financial institution, which I countered by telling her that open carry in banks was legal if the door was not posted with a sign indicating otherwise, her door was not posted. I asked her I she wanted me to leave, she wouldn't say that she did. She kept asking me if I wanted to "push the issue", which was a bit confusing, as I was minding my own business until they bothered me. Once she exhosted all of her arguments short of asking me to leave she gave up and I continued looking around the store for a few more minutes before continuing home. I found the whole event rather amusing, especially for a place that buys and sells guns in a "bad" part of town.
I am curious to know if anyone here has info on the pawn shop as financial institution issue. I would not imagine that they would qualify for the same concealed carry prohabition as banks, but I don't know for sure.
This is my first encounter with resistance since I started open carrying. I carry pretty much everywhere possible since I started in Dec. I intend to continue open carry in this pawn shop until they put up a sign or actually tell me that I can not. If they do so I guess I will have to stop shopping there.