5jeffro7
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My daughter (9 in august) and I went to the Walmart on 164th in Lynnwood this afte4rnoon to pick up a couple "stadium chairs" and see what kind of pricing they had on yogurt. As we were 75% done with checking out, the "co-manager" (Roy) approached me & this is the conversation that took place:
Roy: Excuse me, sir, do you have a concealed permit?
me: yes
Roy: We heard you were coming in & we're going to have to ask that the Next time you come in you conceal your weapon
Me: you heard I was coming?
Roy: someone saw you in the parking lot & called us to let us know
Me: nice! so, why do I need to conceal my weapon, Walmart's corporate policy on customers carrying firearms is to conform to state law & carrying out in the open such as this is completely legal in this state.
Roy: Not in a private business, though
Me: Tell you what, let me sign the slip & we can go somewhere where we're not blocking the check-stand & I can show you how the state law(s) read.
I sign my charge ticket & we proceed to go over by the optical department where I show him the state law pamphlet, the gun rights pamphlet & the training bulletin pamphlet
Roy carefully reads through the entire state law pamphlet & states that he can't see specifically whereit says you can't carry a firearm in a private business. he also states that he also doesn't see anything stating that open carry is legal.
I explain that we base our laws on British practice whereby if there's no law stating that something is unlawful then it is completely lawful. At this point, I also pointed out in the training bulletins where Kent does a direct "question and answer" format & states that there is no illegality with carrying a firearm out in the open.
Roy thanked me & asked if he could get copies of the materials & I told him that I had plenty & that he was more than welcome to have the ones he was looking at.
Roy apologized for bothering me & stated that he would pass all this information on to the General manager of the store & the district manager as well.
Everything went politely & neither of us ever began getting indignant about our points & all in all, went really smooth.
As we were leaving, I asked my daughter if she'd been "freaked out" & she said, "No, not really, but to be honest, dad, I didn't even know you had it on"....:banghead:...TELL MEIHAVEN'T RAISED A SHEEPLE!
My daughter (9 in august) and I went to the Walmart on 164th in Lynnwood this afte4rnoon to pick up a couple "stadium chairs" and see what kind of pricing they had on yogurt. As we were 75% done with checking out, the "co-manager" (Roy) approached me & this is the conversation that took place:
Roy: Excuse me, sir, do you have a concealed permit?
me: yes
Roy: We heard you were coming in & we're going to have to ask that the Next time you come in you conceal your weapon
Me: you heard I was coming?
Roy: someone saw you in the parking lot & called us to let us know
Me: nice! so, why do I need to conceal my weapon, Walmart's corporate policy on customers carrying firearms is to conform to state law & carrying out in the open such as this is completely legal in this state.
Roy: Not in a private business, though
Me: Tell you what, let me sign the slip & we can go somewhere where we're not blocking the check-stand & I can show you how the state law(s) read.
I sign my charge ticket & we proceed to go over by the optical department where I show him the state law pamphlet, the gun rights pamphlet & the training bulletin pamphlet
Roy carefully reads through the entire state law pamphlet & states that he can't see specifically whereit says you can't carry a firearm in a private business. he also states that he also doesn't see anything stating that open carry is legal.
I explain that we base our laws on British practice whereby if there's no law stating that something is unlawful then it is completely lawful. At this point, I also pointed out in the training bulletins where Kent does a direct "question and answer" format & states that there is no illegality with carrying a firearm out in the open.
Roy thanked me & asked if he could get copies of the materials & I told him that I had plenty & that he was more than welcome to have the ones he was looking at.
Roy apologized for bothering me & stated that he would pass all this information on to the General manager of the store & the district manager as well.
Everything went politely & neither of us ever began getting indignant about our points & all in all, went really smooth.
As we were leaving, I asked my daughter if she'd been "freaked out" & she said, "No, not really, but to be honest, dad, I didn't even know you had it on"....:banghead:...TELL MEIHAVEN'T RAISED A SHEEPLE!