LoveMyCountry
State Researcher
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I'm posting this in the Walmart parking lot. My family and I were shopping at Walmart in Sandy. We had been shopping for about thirty minutes with no troubles at all when a man wearing a Walmart stickers coat came around the corner making a bee-line in my direction. I asked him where the cheese was and he said right there "and you and that gun have to leave the store now!" I said "huh???" and he replied that this town has an ordinance saying no guns. I told him that the state has pre-emtion and he said that means the city over-rules the state. ??? I asked him if he was management and he replied "No, do you want me to get a manager?!" I said yes and he stomped off so we continued shopping.
As no manager ever showed up I paid for our items then went to Customer Service and asked for the store manager. They said that she was not in but would I like to speak to a co-manager? When Co-Manager Kristi showed up I told her what had happened and asked if this was corporate policy? She said NO and as long as people weren't waving it around they could carry what they wanted. . She then asked for info on the employee to "straighten him out". I said that he was probably just opinionated and uninformed and she said that it was none of his business.
Thanks for all of the info that has been shared on OCDO. I knew what the law said and stood my ground.
LoveMyCountry
www.reachtheworld.net
I'm posting this in the Walmart parking lot. My family and I were shopping at Walmart in Sandy. We had been shopping for about thirty minutes with no troubles at all when a man wearing a Walmart stickers coat came around the corner making a bee-line in my direction. I asked him where the cheese was and he said right there "and you and that gun have to leave the store now!" I said "huh???" and he replied that this town has an ordinance saying no guns. I told him that the state has pre-emtion and he said that means the city over-rules the state. ??? I asked him if he was management and he replied "No, do you want me to get a manager?!" I said yes and he stomped off so we continued shopping.
As no manager ever showed up I paid for our items then went to Customer Service and asked for the store manager. They said that she was not in but would I like to speak to a co-manager? When Co-Manager Kristi showed up I told her what had happened and asked if this was corporate policy? She said NO and as long as people weren't waving it around they could carry what they wanted. . She then asked for info on the employee to "straighten him out". I said that he was probably just opinionated and uninformed and she said that it was none of his business.
Thanks for all of the info that has been shared on OCDO. I knew what the law said and stood my ground.
LoveMyCountry
www.reachtheworld.net