Gottahaveone
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I guess I'm fortunate in that the guy that runs the company I work for is an exceptionally intelligent and enlightened person. (OK, It's really me 
) Not only is CCW allowed at work, I have built a small (25yrd) range behind the office. The company sits on 10 acres in a business park. There is maybe 300 feet between our building and the next closest business. The range is off the back of the empty lot that separates us, extending down into the trees and ending with a 5' berm. There is a chain across the road with a "Posted-No Trespassing" sign on it. Remember that point. Because on workdays I usually have the courtesy to wait until after hours to cut loose with big stuff, I went out about 5:45 this afternoon and let the SMLE I just finished cleaning up talk a little bit. I loosed my 20 rounds of destruction upon the plastic bottles I brought in short order. I policed up my litter and pulled back out, stopping to lock the chain on the way out. As I'm leaving I see an employee from next door standing out at the road at the end of their driveway talking on a cell phone and looking to his left at the two approaching Sheriff's vehicles. I would normally turn right and go home. I put two and two together and turned left instead and pulled into our main parking lot. I got out and unlocked the building and went in and sat at my desk. After 15 minutes when nothing happened, I was on the verge of leaving when I heard the door chimes announce a visitor. A deputy stuck his head in my office door and asked if I could come out and speak with them. I replied "Sure" and followed him down the hall to the glass lobby door. He stepped outside the door, then still holding the door open turned to talk to me. His first words were "Were you just back there shooting?" He was a young guy and fortunately his demeanor was friendly so I didn't make any crude suggestions in reply. I said "You mean a few minutes ago at our range on our lot out back?" He said "Yes, and let me start off with saying that you aren't in any trouble, I just wanted to touch base with you because we had a complaint." I told him that I had put the guy on the cell phone together with two cruisers driving down the street and came to the conclusion that he had called me in, and that's why I stuck around rather than heading home. Then he told me that they had gone back there and checked out the area I was shooting in and they were pleasantly surprised at what a good job we had done from a safety aspect and that it was a perfectly acceptable place to shoot and that it violated no county ordinances. He told me that he informed the complainant that it was perfectly safe and that there was nothing that either he or the deputy could do about us shooting there. I thanked them for their time and turned around and walked back down the hall. Then it occurred to me....the ONLY way they could have checked out the range was to have stepped over the chain across the road with the "NO TRESPASSING" sign to walk down there and basically, trespassed. All ended well and I'm not going to raise a stink, but my question is, is it allowable for them to trespass onto clearly unoccupied (they watched me pull out of that driveway) posted property to "check things out"? As a side note, SC requires notification of carry status if you are actually asked for ID. Because they didn't even ask my name, much less for ID, I felt no need to mention the .40 I was carrying. That's why I despise the concept of disarming a CCW holder for "officer safety" during a traffic stop. The kinds of people who lead the kinds of lives that allow for CCW aren't the kinds of people who will shoot you over a speeding ticket, you know? If I were of such a mind I could have easily gotten impolite when he turned around and walked down the hallway with his back to me. I considered saying "Bang" just to reinforce his lack of tactical common sense...I mean, if I'm responding to a shots fired kind of call, I'm not turning MY back on the very person I have reason to suspect FIRED those shots. But discretion won out 
) Not only is CCW allowed at work, I have built a small (25yrd) range behind the office. The company sits on 10 acres in a business park. There is maybe 300 feet between our building and the next closest business. The range is off the back of the empty lot that separates us, extending down into the trees and ending with a 5' berm. There is a chain across the road with a "Posted-No Trespassing" sign on it. Remember that point. Because on workdays I usually have the courtesy to wait until after hours to cut loose with big stuff, I went out about 5:45 this afternoon and let the SMLE I just finished cleaning up talk a little bit. I loosed my 20 rounds of destruction upon the plastic bottles I brought in short order. I policed up my litter and pulled back out, stopping to lock the chain on the way out. As I'm leaving I see an employee from next door standing out at the road at the end of their driveway talking on a cell phone and looking to his left at the two approaching Sheriff's vehicles. I would normally turn right and go home. I put two and two together and turned left instead and pulled into our main parking lot. I got out and unlocked the building and went in and sat at my desk. After 15 minutes when nothing happened, I was on the verge of leaving when I heard the door chimes announce a visitor. A deputy stuck his head in my office door and asked if I could come out and speak with them. I replied "Sure" and followed him down the hall to the glass lobby door. He stepped outside the door, then still holding the door open turned to talk to me. His first words were "Were you just back there shooting?" He was a young guy and fortunately his demeanor was friendly so I didn't make any crude suggestions in reply. I said "You mean a few minutes ago at our range on our lot out back?" He said "Yes, and let me start off with saying that you aren't in any trouble, I just wanted to touch base with you because we had a complaint." I told him that I had put the guy on the cell phone together with two cruisers driving down the street and came to the conclusion that he had called me in, and that's why I stuck around rather than heading home. Then he told me that they had gone back there and checked out the area I was shooting in and they were pleasantly surprised at what a good job we had done from a safety aspect and that it was a perfectly acceptable place to shoot and that it violated no county ordinances. He told me that he informed the complainant that it was perfectly safe and that there was nothing that either he or the deputy could do about us shooting there. I thanked them for their time and turned around and walked back down the hall. Then it occurred to me....the ONLY way they could have checked out the range was to have stepped over the chain across the road with the "NO TRESPASSING" sign to walk down there and basically, trespassed. All ended well and I'm not going to raise a stink, but my question is, is it allowable for them to trespass onto clearly unoccupied (they watched me pull out of that driveway) posted property to "check things out"? As a side note, SC requires notification of carry status if you are actually asked for ID. Because they didn't even ask my name, much less for ID, I felt no need to mention the .40 I was carrying. That's why I despise the concept of disarming a CCW holder for "officer safety" during a traffic stop. The kinds of people who lead the kinds of lives that allow for CCW aren't the kinds of people who will shoot you over a speeding ticket, you know? If I were of such a mind I could have easily gotten impolite when he turned around and walked down the hallway with his back to me. I considered saying "Bang" just to reinforce his lack of tactical common sense...I mean, if I'm responding to a shots fired kind of call, I'm not turning MY back on the very person I have reason to suspect FIRED those shots. But discretion won out 
