Costco anti gun!

[tmajors]

Why is it that the whim of a store manager or a corporation can nullify the Second Amendment by posting a sign?

Actually for the same reason a store manager can nullify your First Amendment rights. Private property rights generally trumps Bill of Rights. Try to protest a store on their property sometime. Doesn't work. That's why the sign holders stand on the sidewalk which is public property and and store can't do jack about that.

 

[gunsmith]

not me

If you're a CCW holder and you're carrying you have the responsibility as an American to the rest of your RKBA friends here on THR to not violate any gun laws.

I have a higher authority then store managers whims and silly commies
laws, RKBA is a God given right, I have a duty to protect this gift that our Creator has bestowed upon me, life.

 

[FourTeeFive]

Anyway, fellow Washingtonian here (Snohomish). You've got to admit, as leftist as our state is, we have the anomoly of having some pretty open gun laws. Except for a total MG ban, we've got some of the most gun friendly laws here. Maybe it harkens back to the early days of our state, and it's really anarchist roots.

Having lived here a long time I think the citizens of Washington state are as a whole pretty ok with guns. It is mostly the politicans from this state that seem to jump on the anti-gun bandwagon.

 

[Libertyteeth]

Today I was accosted by management at Costco in Bozeman for Open Carrying a 1911 .45 semi auto handgun (third time in, open carrying). First, the pharmacist, who seems to be an independent operator, chased me down as I was shopping and told me they would no longer fill prescriptions if I were
carrying. He said his assistants, all women, had freaked out... He said he personally supported me, but with all the DRUGS they sell, it was different than selling, say, COFFEE, like the rest of Costco.

So I continued on my way, and the Costco General Manager tracked me down and told me I would no longer be allowed in the store if I were armed. He personally supported me, you understand, but Costco has a No Guns policy...

(Which I knew from reading on line forums, so this didn't really surprise me.)

I said too bad, I was providing a service to Costco, enhanced security, at no cost to the store. I told him concealed carry permit holders were carrying in Costco anyway. He said that wouldn't surprise him, but they don't frisk people at the door. I said, Well not yet!

There has been controversy over my carring in the Chronicle letters to the editor, naming Costco, which didn't help. This Costco store has no signs saying "No Firearms Allowed" that I know of.

But the bottom line is that if Costco is an anti-gun corporation, I will no longer be a member. It is a nice place to shop. But an added benefit is that I will no longer have a Costco card, which constitutes a potentially incredibly invasive computerized database on your personal buying habits, on the structure of your life in significant aspects. I have refused to get supermarket cards, but Costco was sufficiently attractive that I sold out. No more. Next week I will be in Costco for the last time- with an empty holster- as I cash in my card and get a refund.

I have not been hassled elsewhere in Bozeman or the Gallatin Valley in 3 weeks of open carrying.