Man Banned from Every Walmart Store for Legal Open Carry ~ VIDEOS

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Virginia – -(AmmoLand.com)- Virginia Citizens Defense League has been made aware of an incident at a Walmart in Kentucky where someone open carrying a handgun was approached by police and asked to sign a trespass document saying he acknowledges being banned for Walmart property anywhere in the U.S., indefinitely.

That contradicts the official policy as laid out by Walmart’s CEO.

I have also heard from a third party that Walmart is going to post their stores “no open carry.” However, I’m not taking that as Gospel until someone actually sees such a sign.

In the meantime, I recommend that you do not open carry in Walmart for at least a week until we see if such a sign materializes or we get more definitive information from Walmart.

Concealed carry remains a safe option, as Walmart’s policy specifically allows for such.

Walmart Pushing Gun Control Ala Dicks Sporting Goods

Walmart is now behaving much like Dicks Sporting Goods by pushing gun control and is going to lose a lot of business from gun owners, accordingly.

Walmart claims to be working with Moms Demand Action on lobbying Congress to look at “strengthening background checks,” to “remove weapons from those proven to pose an imminent danger,” and “the reauthorization of the assault weapon ban should be debated to determine its effectiveness.”

Lobbying Congress for more gun control crosses the line.

To hear the Walmart internal memo on gun policy read on the Guns & Gadgets podcast, click here and go to the 1-minute mark.

Clear above to watch the video of the trespass incident in the Kentucky Walmart and go here to see the follow-up video. I really don’t like how the police handled this incident. So much for the Walmart CEO’s claim that gun customers will be treated respectfully and non-confrontationally.

Tomorrow an alert will have more information on how to handle such an incident.


Virginia Citizens Defense LeagueAbout Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL):

Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc. (VCDL). VCDL is an all-volunteer, non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to defending the human rights of all Virginians. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a fundamental human right.

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olddognc

People need to open carry more. The public will slowly get use to it. As for Walmart and CVS and Walgreens I will take shopping elsewhere. Stand up don’t back down

ochwill

“the people will get used to it”..or they’ll be dead from gunfire..Either way problem solved right?? EverytownForGunSafety

Get Out

So says a supporter of a tyrannical government.

Firewagon

“….do not open carry in Walmart….” I’m no fan of “open carry,” even though legal, as I don’t want any BG deciding I may need to be the ‘first one shot.’ Wallymart deciding to not carry firearms and ammunition, after having put all but a few small gun store businesses out of business, is a much larger gripe! Check with Tucker Carlson on how he feels about Wallymart. The BLOWBACK from America’s 100 MILLION gun owners, almost one third the U.S. population, SHOULD be BANNING Wallymart from receiving ANY of their business. That would be a truly Walmart ‘pocketbook’ influencing… Read more »

ochwill

Americans will continue to shop at Wal Mart because they understand that America has the worst per capita gun violence rate in the developed world and they want something done about that that doesn’t involve the NRA’s standard solution . Which is more guns everywhere for everyone.

Get Out

Hmm, at least the NRA and anyone pro-gun has a solution Och. The anti-gunners standard solution is to double down on GFZ’s leaving people defenseless because people like you wet themselves at the sight of a firearm.

Knute

I can give some advice right now. NEVER sign anything. Your signature is the most valuable thing you possess. Whenever you sign a piece of paper, you are voluntarily agreeing to something. You cannot be forced to sign. A signature under duress means nothing. Never agree to anything just because someone tells you to. Always understand first, and sign later.

John

Agree one should fully understand the ramifications of signing a document, with that said, even if I think I have my bases covered, I still use”Proceeding Without Conceding” before my signature.

Tionico

just write “under duress” under your signature.

Tionico

this phoney piece of paper the local coppers FORCED him to sign is meaningless, as it was signed under duress.. they had him detained, they had guns, they likely secured his during the encouter, and the threat of keeping it (or seizing it if they had not yet done) was very real. They “made him sign”, thus he signed under duress, and his signatire may as well not even be there.

I’d ignore it. Find a different WalMart and walk on in. What, they got facial recognitioin software and scan every mug walks in the door?

Will Flatt

Actually since Walmart is partnered with DHS, they DO have facial recognition software! Whether they’re actually using it may be another matter.

olddognc

People need to understand all Walmart CVS & Walgreens will just create target rich areas. Think about it murder in some states is death and the others life. So as said so many times crooks don’t follow the laws. EU has some of the most strict gun control laws and the crooks have RPG’s that work full Automatic weapons. UK cops now carry weapons. A while back just night sticks. The point is the crook’s still have weapons no mater what you do.

ochwill

Gun safety laws work. Responsible gun owners embrace gun safety. ViolencePolicy.org

Get Out

Is stomping on the lawful gun owners Constitutional rights your idea of embracing gun safety?

JMR

Opinion: Stop going to Walmart.

Tionico

but I cannot do that.

I already DID stop going to WalMart

Will Flatt

It’s simple. GET WOKE, GO BROKE. Every gun owner & their families ALL need to STOP SHOPPING AT WALMART FOREVER! That will send the right message!!

ochwill

Yes ! Americans have 400 million guns and America has the worst per capita gun violence rate in the developed world. Therefore, America needs more guns because ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,bang, bang.

Will Flatt

The top 10 gun control cities account for the vast majority of shootings in the USA, and other anti-2A cities account for quite a bit more. GUNS AREN’T THE PROBLEM, ANTIGUN LEFTISTS ARE!!

So take your antigun FAIL, STFU & GTFO of here!!

Scott123

Why would you do this? Why would you try to give them your money? Walmart has made it clear they do not support our rights. Read it straight from them https://tinyurl.com/y3h7mtym. I really like this part “Walmart is a charter member of the Responsible Firearms Retailer Partnership, organized by Walmart and Everytown for Gun Safety.” Looks like they are proud partners with one of the most anti-gun organizations out there. DON’T support them!! After a quick google search it appears that between 30 and 45% of households in America have guns. Don’t you think if these retailers lost 30-45% of… Read more »

willyd

Most businesses that would post signs stating that no weapons allowed, Wal-Mart CEO has stated that Conceal Carry is OK, just please don’t Open Carry, Respect their rights as a business they prefer the not open carry, If you care not to comply with their request and are confronted about it, use some common sense and just comply they have set their policies, they aren’t banning your right to carry they just prefer to have you carry Concealed! If you don’t want to do this just don’t shop there, there are other stores, just like TV’s if you don’t like… Read more »

Drawer22

willyd – By partnering with Everytown…, Walmart has done far more than merely express a preference as to how I, as a mature, law-abiding, superbly trained, combat experienced, responsible, former LEO, NRA-certified Instructor of firearms safety and skills should carry. Their corporate rights stop at the Preface to our Constitiution of the United States of America, inclusive of all unrescinded Amendments.

As for not wanting to shop at Walmart, I don’t wish to support Red China’s economy anyway, leaving aside Walmart’s counter-Constitutional perspective.

De Oppresso Liber

MICHAEL J

Citizens are safer when criminals don’t know who’s armed.

Tionico

true, but still no reason to deny anyone carrying openly. The open carry folks are needed to help the general public realise that guns are norma, safe, nothing to be feared. If the general public could realise how many of us carry everywhere already, after they recover from their apoplexy they’ll again realise these guns aren’t the ones to fear… it all comes down to INTENT, and normal folks just carrying on eveyrwhere do NOT have the evil intent of the recent mass murderers. Cars kill far more people than guns do, yet the general public are not panicked whenever… Read more »

ochwill

Citizens are safest when guns are not everywhere. Like , say, in every developed nation on earth , other than America, ALL of which have lower gun violence rates than America. Gun safety laws work and the NRA has worked for decades to convince people like you otherwise. ViolencePOlicy.org

Ej harbet

Shutup! Men talking man stuff. Now go take another drink from the mikey mule!

Drawer22

So, by their own admission, 7 armed, uniformed thugs who neglect their duties to keep the community safe from criminals, invade a Walmart, and hold a law-abiding American hostage. Then, they disarm the victimized citizen who only wants to assure his own safety (and, incidentally, the safety of others). Upon having returned the responsible American’s firearm and loaded magazine to him, the armed criminals watch the law-abiding American reload his sidearm and turn away from him, only to return and coerce the hostage into signing acknowledgement that he’s banned from Walmart. And these uniformed criminals who are oath-sworn to uphold… Read more »

Ej harbet

And not a walmart in some blue craphole! A walmart in KENTUCKY!

ochwill

Villainizing the police? How very NRA of you.

Get Out

Yet, you have no problem villainizing law abiding gun owners.

Wild Bill

I think that the cop villainized himself, and so did Wallmart.

Rowboat

I have not the slightest problem with you guys ( and gals ) that open carry ; but just remember that stealth technology was developed so the enemy doesn’t see you coming.

Ej harbet

Never reached for something high of bent to get something low.before this recent new era theyd say how bout that he takes his duty as a civilized man seriously! Now you get seven cops in your face! Next thing you know itll be CODE666 IN ISLE 20! And they blow your head off!
Times they is a changing!

BigJim

Walmart has revealed Itself as the anti-American activist that it truly is. It likes big China. Not big America. Those of you that can’t read between the lines; Don’t Feed the Bears!
It is obvious, the problem is you.

JIAZ

For Guns, Ammo, and Shooting Gear I happily go out of my way to patronize local mom & pop, family owned gun stores.

“Walmart has partnered with Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown anti-gun operation in an effort to strip law-abiding Americans of their right to purchase, keep and bear arms in defense of themselves and their families.”
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/walmart-joins-everytown-for-gun-safety-in-its-responsible-firearms-retailer-partnership/

https://www.gunpowdermagazine.com/walmart-reveals-partnership-with-bloombergs-everytown-for-gun-safety/

https://tennesseefirearms.com/2019/09/walmart-partners-with-everytown-for-gun-safety-and-michael-bloomberg-to-advance-gun-ban-agenda/

Wild Bill

@JIAZ, Yes! Ninety-one percent of what is sold at Walmart is from China. China puts every wan of profit into their military, and we are the target of Communist Chinese ambitions. Their stated goal is to replace us.
Walmart cost small town America 400, 000 mom and pop businesses and gutted small town America.
Walmart has revealed themselves to be an enemy of our civil rights, only beginning with the Second Amendment.
Each of these is reason enough to never do business at Walmart again.

ochwill

Bloomberg’s anti gun operation,,,,Translation ….EverytownForGunSafety, because it supports the common sense gun safety laws that are working in states that enact tougher gun safety laws, is a group I need to villainies and lie about. Preferably with red texts.

Get Out

Och, can you disprove the links that were provided by JIAZ?

Question for you Och, Bloomberg travels around the country with armed security while pushing to disarm everyone else. Is he being hypocritical trying to take our firearms when he has armed security for his protection?

Ej harbet

Walmart and the clamoring hordes that follow it makes me feel like a jew in late 1930s nazi germany.everyone is putting on swastika armbands. People who never harmed anyone are being called terrorists and looked upon as less than human. Though i do my best and take comfort from my friends and family some who dont see whats coming. My heart grows darker towards our emboldened enemy and i prepare for the knock at the door. When it comes i wont say hello or open my door. Ill be ready for what comes through it! I dont look forward to… Read more »

ochwill

Ej. “People who never harmed anyone” is a pretty tone deaf comment. The gun industry and its enablers in the NRA and the GOP have diligently worked for the past 50 years to block any and all common sense gun safety legislation, block background check laws, prevent the ATF from finding gun traffickers by blocking funding for a modern computerized gun serial # registry, elected a convicted gun trafficker as its president, referred to federal security personnel as “jack booted thugs” prompting the Oklahoma City bombing, traumatized an entire generation of American school children who must practice active shooter lockdown… Read more »

RoyD

Are you aware that decades ago school children also had to practice drills intended to help them survive an attack. I don’t remember anyone being traumatized by performing those drills. I wonder why that might be?

Wild Bill

@RoyD, Swill the paid propagandist is just following the script that his supervisor gave him, and fattening his paycheck.

Ej harbet

Why the next civil war will settle this.your right to feel safe doesnt overide my right to defend myself and my loved ones.this is a right you have as well even if you refuse to use it. And the jackbooted thugs term came from a Michigan democrat senator long before crook la pierre stole it.and your “common sense gun free zones” keep a steady flow of innocent blood for you to dance in.the definition of tone deaf! Now you grow desperate because with each passing second your fool aid loses its potency.if you cant con people into giving up their… Read more »

Wild Bill

They won’t be coming to your house in the way that you contemplate. They will surveil you until they know your routine. Then when you are getting out or your car at the church parking lot or grocery store parking lot, when you are not expecting it, they will nab you. Then they will serve a warrant on your empty house, shoot your dog in the course of making entry, and take your what ever is on the warrant, plus other fruits, instrumentalities, or evidence that they stumble over.

Ej harbet

Actually i doubt they make it to flyover,it just takes word of the first few to kick the hornets nest and get them swarmed.they snicker about us hayseeds and our psa ars taking on the military.
The military will eat them! In the last civil war the democrats presided over the lost cause of enslaving people for use as farm equipment.they learned nothing! Now they want to enslave us,but we arent starving in the holds of ships wearing chains.are we?

Jim

DAMN IT GUYS, First the mouthy cop is and probably always has been an idiot! The customer is also stupid – he signed the document. He was not under duress if he didn’t and if he were it would not hold water. I am a super Second Amendment guy. But private property is private property. If you go into a restaurant barefoot with no shirt and are asked to leave-are you going to try to exercise your “constitutional” rights or get smart and immediately leave and keep your mouth shut to avoid a disturbance charge. The same for private property… Read more »

Wild Bill

@jh45gun, I like your first sentence. As to the remainder: would your analysis be different if I told you that the property is corporate, and that the corporation accepts a different set of rules when it voluntarily invites the general public onto that corporate property?

PsychoUSMC

I fail to see what the fuss is about. Walmart has said they don’t want open carry, so don’t open carry there. Don’t shop there if you don’t want to but, it’s a business and they can set their own policies. This guy was being an idiot by going against their policy and then acting like the victim. It seems like there are a lot of people who want their rights to be respected but don’t want to respect the rights of others.

24and7

I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT RESPECTING THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS IF I AM MINDING MY OWN DAMNED BUSINESS..THAT IS WHAT THE BILL OF RIGHTS IS FOR!! I DONT ASK YOUR PERMISSION OR ANYONE ELSE’S TO EXERCISE MY RIGHTS..THAT’S THE PROBLEM IN THIS COUNTRY.. EVERYONE THINKS THEIR TENDER FEELINGS TRUMPS YOUR RIGHTS..THAT IS WHY WE HAVE SNOWFLAKES AND ANTIFA..THATS WHY THIS COUNTRY IS ON THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL..

Lee

You do not have the right to carry at all on my property if I so choose. Period. And I do not have to have a blanket policy. I can single you out if I wish just as I can deny you access to my property in the first place. I don’t like their policy and I especially do not like the over the top response to this guy. He should have been told to leave, but their remedy is their choice. I vote with my dollars and Walmart does not get to have any more of my dollars, just… Read more »

24and7

Hopefully no gun owner will visit you on your property then.. furthermore if my weapon is properly concealed I wouldn’t ask you shit..

Tionico

on YOUR private peroperty where YOU alone control all access, yes. That all changes when you open your doors to any and all comers. Further, since it is YOUR property and YOU control who accesses, if there IS a problem and I am harmed by a dirtbag YOU allowed onto your property, YOU are civilly liable for my harm, as YOU are the one in total control of your dirtpatch. Again, open the doors to anyone who wills, you then MUST also open the door to all the individual rights that accompany each individual who enters, and accept responsibility for… Read more »

Johnny Angel

Yes, you DO have to worry about respecting other people’s rights. They own the store, and if they don’t want you carrying openly then don’t. Just like if you say “no one is permitted to park on my yard”. If they do, you call the police for trespassing and have them towed. Your property, your rules. If we, as gun owners, don’t respect other people’s rights then why should we expect them to respect ours. You reap what you sow.

24and7

No I Dont..If I am minding my own business you best mind yours…

Tionico

except YUOR yard is not open to public access, butWalMart’s is. And THAT makes all the difference.

Hundreds of laws that do not apply to your dirtpatch, because it is PRIVATE land, DO apply to WalMart, as their dirt is public access. And those laws demand MY rights be respected in ways YOU do not have to on your dirt.

24and7

A ten hut!!..hurry marine turn in your weapons before the Amory closes at sundown..

Littlejohn1411

Totally agree, just cover it up! They aren’t completely banning firearms in their stores they just don’t want them too be seen and someone uneducated about firearms to create a scare. I personally haven’t shopped at a Walmart in years and don’t plan to. I do not agree with a lot of the things that the ceo has put in writing but this point is just if you want to shop there and carry, just cover it up, you will still be armed.

24and7

Sound like a commie to me..

Littlejohn1411

I understand your frustration and knew I would get flamed. Believe me I’m disgusted with where this country is going, but it’s gun owners like you that fuel the fire and give anti’s ammunition. Save your anger for the revolution should there be one and don’t fight the very people on your side in this battle.

Heed the Call-up

Not everyone can CC. In most states one must be 21 years old or older. In my state, you are “allowed” to own and carry a handgun, but you do not have the ability to legally CC.

I don’t shop in Wal-mart, so I don’t really care what policies they have, they do not and will not get any of my money.

Heed the Call-up

Meant to state that those 18 years old and under 21 years old can legally OC a handgun, but are not legally able to CC.

An 18 year old in Virginia can be gifted or buy a handgun in a private sale, but not from a FFL. And at any age, with a legal guardian or adult supervision, is allowed to handle and fire any firearm, but again, not legally CC, except on private property.

Tionico

Business are public access, thus are bound by the laws of the state wherein located. I know Texas provides the option for publicalll accseeible venues to prohibit open carry, but they CANNOT prhibit concealed carry. Specific signs must be posted at all entrances before the no open carry policy can be enforced. Kentucky, if I’m not mistaken, have firearms preeemtion laws at the state level. I know of no mechanism where the manager of a public venue can deny access on the basis of someone legally carrying a weapon. I KNOW Missouri cannot. Nor can Washington Arizona, many other states.… Read more »

AZguy

As to AZ your comment is incorrect. AZ law states clearly that private property owners of any kind have ultimate authority on whether anyone can carry a firearm (concealed or open). There is no such thing as an exception for businesses which are open to the public as being fundamentally different from a residence. Private property is just that. The owner is in charge – no exceptions. They are supposed to post a sign on the entrance to a business, but even if they have not they can ask you to leave or have the police come and do it… Read more »

jake

Texas businesses can post 30.06 signs to prohibit CC. 30.07 for open.

Drawer22

USA – Being banned could become the new badge of honor! Gotta luvit!

Cogito, ergo armatus sum.

clevernickname

Support your local gun shop! Any big box store takes money out of your community.

Tionico

that meme is a fake meme anyway. No, the big box stores don’t take all that money out of the community. MOST of their COGS involve the real estate where they locate, and wages paid to LOCALS to run the place. their margins are far smaller than local Mom n Pop stores, they actually leave a greater perccentage of their total revenue IN the local communityu. Do I like them? Not much. But lets be honest about the “taking money out of the community”. That false claim is a left over from the early days of liberal types hating on… Read more »

Ryben Flynn

The correct procedure if you violate their policy is to ask you to leave, if you don’t, then call the police and charge you with trespass, and never sign anything.

xring2245

Walmart has become the gun owners’ enemy.

ochwill

If that keeps you out of the store with your gun, I’m supportive of that concept.

Get Out

Will you be able to spot the people who CCW though?

Firewagon

“….the reauthorization of the assault weapon ban should be debated to determine its effectiveness.” How about doing just a bit of research, and learn that after a full ten (10) years of that infamous “Assault Rifle Ban,” ended in 2003/4, it affected 1/10th of 1% (.001) of ALL crimes committed, including those whacks shooting up some place with a rifle of ANY type! There are no consoling words or deeds for those who lose someone to violence of any type. You do have to ask where is ALL the concern and calls for some ban or solution for the over… Read more »

ochwill

Bogus gun nut numbers. The ban prevented a lot of death and destruction , which, as we all can see has now resumed in full force. Your claim is a steaming pile of gun sales and marketing propaganda courtesy of the gun and ammo industry which sells these weapons of war as if they’re “sporting” rifles and which are featuring over and over in mass shootings. Your bogus claim and denial of gun violence reality gets a gigantic red flag for dishonesty and ignorance and denial.#NoRANow

JPM

If I go into Walmart at all, I carry concealed and it isn’t a problem, at least not in Snowflake, and Show Low, Arizona. Sorta like, “Don’t ask, don’t tell”.

Rock

Sadly WalMart has taken the fork in the road to the left…. First the elimination of the scary “BLACK RIFLE” sales cause some leftist snowflake WHIMPS shuddered when they see one,. Now the open carry again because some leftist snowflake shuddered when they saw one… You can almost feel the ground shudder as MILLIONS of proud AMERICAN ancestors and veterans roll over in their graves… Today is the anniversary of 9.1.1, can you imagine that the Dems and libs really WANT those responsible for the over 3000 murdered to live here now… How fast they forget, they will do ANYTHING… Read more »

Stripeseven

Providing signage of their policy had not been placed outside for all to see, he should have just been asked to leave the store voluntarily before any call was made. Just don’t patronize them…

USMC0351Grunt

If Walmart ever got the practice by hiring anybody with intelligence I would have just walked the gentleman over to the clothing department and bought him a concealed carry friendly shirt

RoyD

Because sometimes I think it useful to question how many spirits can dance on the head of a pin, I posit this: The person in the video is “banned from Walmart property nation wide.” Does this include the parking lot? If so would that not interfere with his wife shopping there if he has to drive her? What if he is a passenger in a friend’s car who wants to stop at Walmart on the way home? Just how far is Walmart willing to push this in order to make a point? Suppose the “banned” person, not necessarily this guy,… Read more »

ochwill

Answer to all your questions. TOO BAD .

Unhyphenated Anarchy

Imagine if flash mobs of 300 plus gun toting shoppers showed up all at the same time to shop at Walmart…it’d be glorious rebellion!!!

Drawer22

USA – Genghis Khan is a leftist, when compared to my conservative leanings, yet when invited to join in a choral “flash mob,” I was more than merely enthused to sing. So, according to you, I’m a leftist, eh? Since ol’ Genghis is left of me, does that go full circle and make him a consevative? And if I can be just a little more radically left than singing in a “flash mob,” might I be reinstated as a real conservative? Of course, I mention the above in jest, as I envariably carry when singing, sandwiching in rehearsals between teaching… Read more »

ochwill

Speaking of drawers. Maybe you should clean yours out.

ochwill

Anarchy……your solution is certainly very anarchic. Anarchy AND guns everywhere.
That’ll certainly help lower our out of control gun violence epidemic. NOT

Ej harbet

For some reason the left organizes easily. We on the other hand organize like cats.
Unless somehow we survive getting our arses kicked.then god help them.
It would be lovely to sling the vepr and just stroll around with a bunch of america loving patriots.
Saying with a smile”we dont want war but if they mean to have war let it begin here!

StreetSweeper

Oh please, how is “every Walmart” going to know who this guy is? Just pay cash, you’ll be fine. And how can this store manager bar him “nationwide”? It’s laughable. I got thrown out of Kansas once as a kid, true story; I’ve been back many times since.

StreetSweeper

Yes, the whole state.

24and7

After years of policing I can tell you the Walmart trespass policy doesn’t mean crap.. they do the same thing with shoplifters.. the only entity of Walmart that can trespass you successfully is Sam’s Wholesale Club.. you can’t even enter unless you are a member or with a member..

RoyD

I have talked to the Walmart customer service center in Springdale, Arkansas twice now about this. My next step is to converse with the manager at my local supercenter. They say that concealed carry is good to go. What if my concealed carry gun is exposed because I was reaching up to the top shelf or my shirt inadvertently gets pulled up by something unbeknownst to me? It is no longer concealed and that is fine under OK law with a CCW permit. Will that pass the Walmart “concealed is OK” test? Enquiring minds want to know.

Justsayingisall

Food for thought, switch out word (NRA) with the generic (lobbyist) and the word (gun’s) with (sugar) and a much better case could be made for banning something dangerous, But diabetes, obesity and many other slow killing illnesses don’t get near the news coverage. And so Walmart (and many more) sell hundreds of tons of the deadly and addictive substance yearly… P. S. I’m not for banning sugar or guns

RoyD

Forget about being “law enforcement”, I assume that everyone over the age of 12 is carrying something that could be deadly to me or others. I had a girlfriend in high school who carried an eight inch long hat pin inside the top edge of her purse and no one knew it. I only found out as she picked it up off her dresser and slid it into her purse seam when I picked her up at her house after we had been dating for a while. The only thing you saw was a half inch diameter plastic ball on… Read more »

Ej harbet

Unless she was nuts,you shoulda kept her perhaps making something a bit sturdier from a mosin nagant bayonet.smart empowered women are awesome

RoyD

I had a world to see and went and played in Uncle Sam’s Green Machine for three years. On my way back home to Fairbanks Ak I was side tracked by the folks in Oklahoma. Second day there I was introduced to a young woman that I didn’t think much of at first. We have been married for almost 43 years now. So I think I did alright.

Ej harbet

And 43 is doing well in this era of disposable marriages!

Drawer22

musicman44mag – Properly trained LEOs *do* handle each encounter as if the Subject is armed. Unfortunately, few LEOs are well trained, so the badge-heavy ones make it exceptionally obvious that they’re ready to draw down on everyone, which doesn’t do much for community relations. Matter of fact, it leads better-trained citizens to prepare for assuring their own safety and that of others from the threat of violence from *all* LEOs. As an exceptionally well-trained, educated, former LEO, most other LEOs scare the crap out of me, either from their nonchalant handling of firearms or their paranoiac badge-heaviness, characterized by being… Read more »

ochwill

Guns everywhere sucks. “Draw down on everyone” Translation. Hoping to get to shoot someone with their gun.

Tionico

approached by police and asked to sign a trespass document saying he acknowledges being banned for Walmart property anywhere in the U.S., indefinitely. Hah, no copper would ever force me to sign such a document. He would be outside his scope of authority. And I suspect the copper in question would be serisouly violating my rights per US COnstitution and law. I’d a signed it all right.. I would have signed No. Hellno. The manager/person in control of THAT WalMart might have his knickers in a big wad and try and tell me I cannot enter HIS store, but even… Read more »

Ed

The cop has no business having the individual sign the trespass order but he can stand by, if requested,as the manager approaches the person.

As far as if the manager/store has the right to ban an individual, that’s up to a civil court.

Ed

You can get sued for near anything. Will it go anywhere? Who knows? Wal Mart does pay out a lot to just quell a lot of minor litigation.

Johnny Angel

1. It’s not arbitrary. Open carry is open carry.
2. They are not saying you can’t exercise your constitutionally protected right to carry. They specifically said concealed carry is fine.
3. It is their property. They are allowed to make any rule they want as a condition of being ON their property. Do you let anyone do anything they want on your property? I think not. You have rules and expectations from visitors and guests.

Unhyphenated Anarchy

I live in Texas too. You are wrong Will. Fuck signage! If it’s private property they have every right to tell you what to do or you can leave!

Tionico

go and educate yourself on what the “30.07 sign posted” is and means in Texas. I know, you obviosuly do not. You further fail to comrehend the massive difference between your own PRIVATE dirtpatch at home, and the very PUBLIC dirtatch on which the WalMart sits. Two different kinds of property entirely. Be glad all the laws, rules, requirements, etc, that BIND on all publiccly accessible property do NOT bind on your own private hovel. You;d go nuts trying to comply, fail often, and get fined tens of thousands of dollars for your non-compliance. Educate yourself on these things. Your… Read more »

Old Scout

Last time I checked, Walmarts are private property and they have every right to prohibit open carry. If you don’t like the policy, then don’t shop there, but don’t forget that private property rights exist, too. I am a strong supporter of 2A, but I think that anyone who open carries in urban areas is just asking for trouble.

Jim

Unfortunately I agree, just scares the hell out of the locals…

Wild Bill

@OS, Corporate. Corporate property inviting the general public onto that corporate property. Different rules.

45 is my other auto

I need a “safe space” during this discussion…….
We are under attack by all anti gun people and institutions. All of us need to be smart in how we conduct ourselves when confronted by anyone regarding our mode of carry.

I always Carry concealed as I like to know I am the only one who knows I have a gun.

Element of surprise is key. But to each his own!

Scotty Gunn

I carry concealed, never an issue. I understand the open carry people and their arguments, but in this age, go concealed. Stop trying to argue the laws,etc. It’s about keeping your family safe, not “I am allowed to do this, etc”.

Idadho

Go ahead, open carry where they don’t want you to open carry and show Open Carriers to be jerks. If a business owner says No Open Carry, state Open Carry laws do not matter. If you do not know that about the laws, leave your gun at home. We don’t need more ignorant people feeding ammunition to the AntiGunners.

Rowboat

After perusing all the comments to this article, I now understand how lawyers get rich ! Like gun control, seems there are no standards of agreement. The keyboard commandos and armchair lawyers are out in numbers : is common sense dead. ? Case in point; two of my friends and I stopped for lunch after shopping at Bass Pro. One of my friends was OC , while my other friend and I were CC . Not an eyebrow was raised in Bass Pro on the OC guy. Conversely, at the sandwich shop, my OC friend was getting some really hostile… Read more »

ochwill

“one of my friends was OC…Time for smarter less dangerous friends.

ochwill

“miuslims and communists” Translation. Anyone who is concerned they might get shot by me and my gun are bad people and I need to hate them. There. Clarified your comments contents.

ochwill

Or jeepers. Maybe you could leave your firearms at home safely stored under lock and key and your ammo locked up separately. Like they do in say, the US military where there are virtually zero gun violence incidents on US military bases.

Get Out
Ej harbet

And on a still quiet night you can hear the holololol of och servicing lil nappy bloomberg!
Hope mikey gets a nice reach around digit in the bum.

cwellt

Hmmm….I conceal carry, but would not dare challenge authorities if approached about unauthorized [or unlawful] possession of a firearm. I dream of a day where I can safely open carry anywhere without fear of being viewed by closed-minded individuals as a threat [thug/drug dealer/gang-banger]. I’m certain it wouldn’t end well if there’s ever an encounter where I show that type resistance and nonverbal aggression toward authorities [this idiot shopper is even allowed to touch his firearm multiple times while debating his rights with authorities]
Wow! smdh

RoyD

Drinking a little early today aren’t you?

cwellt

Nope, not drunk/high…..ijs

Heed the Call-up

Thugs, drug dealers, and gang-bangers do not OC, that is why CC was illegal for so many years in the USA. It was believed that only those with criminal intent concealed their arms. Now so many people are ignorant about firearms, the mere thought of someone carrying, but oddly not the police (a topic for another day), makes them wet themselves.

cwellt

Point taken. I was just highlighting that perception is reality. Some who OC will always be viewed as GUNG-HO…..others as thugs

Ej harbet

I get what you feel.youre far from the only one feeling this. Open carry is more convenient and comfortable and people should leave you be unless you are a threat.when i see oc i think interesting and as long as theyre not giving me a bad vibe i go on about my business.evil people will use freedom to their advantage and free people have a duty to be ready to counter evil using our freedom to prepare our software and hardware.

ochwill

When I see OC I see a potential shooter. Which he/she is.

RoyD

ochwill pay attention: We are talking about carrying a firearm not going to one of your transvestite parties.

ochwill

Guns carried in public scare people. And with good reason. America has the worst per capita gun violence rate in the developed world. The tyranny of the gun is eroding our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

ochwill

If you’re carrying openly you are alerting anyone who sees you that you have the capability of shooting them to death …. how comforting for your fellow citizens.

Get Out

Does the sight of an armed LEO frighten you too, they OC as well?

RoyD

I remember here in the OKC area, before we got CC, there was a KTOK talk radio host that went by the moniker, “Carol Arnold.” I remember her saying once, when the topic was citizens being able to carry handguns, that the thought that the person sitting in front of her in the theater might have a gun just scared her so much. Never mind the fact that before CC that person might be carrying without the blessing of the State. It’s what I did for twenty years until I got my CC permit. You can go through life scared… Read more »

BrianG

Good! This is exactly what needs to happen. And Walmart isn’t going to lose any business because most right wing gun toting nut jobs live in small rural areas where Walmart is the only option. And I’m not sure where you’re getting your information from, but Dicks Sporting Goods has actually INCREASED their revenue by almost 4% in the past year. I’m so glad I have a brain and can think for myself unlike the author and fans of this article.

I hope they stop selling guns and ammo all together.

tomcat

@ BrianG I know what you are saying, those pesky guns might go off and hit someone. The problem is that there is no way you are going to take all the guns from everyone. Therefore, the only guns would be in the hands of the criminals. You have to hope you never faced with one of those actors.

Autsin Miller III

Hi Brian G, as one of those “Right wing gun toting nut jobs” who lives in a rural area, I can tell you that I won’t be shopping at Walmart going forward and it will entail some inconvenience but as it turns out supporting what you believe in sometimes does that. Besides, there is always Amazon. I too am glad you can think for yourself, possibly you should think about how fast you are to categorize and criticize.

USMC0351Grunt

@BrianG, your brain is obviously eroded from the constant Essence of Jockstrap because Dick’s. Is getting dicked because of their decision! I would imagine if Dick’s remains on course they’re going to end up selling jockstraps at every off-ramp in the United States in order to turn a buck!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/business/dicks-sporting-goods-stock-gun-control.amp.html

Will Flatt

@BrianG You dont have a brain, you’re a libtarded commie NPC! GTHO of here and take your FAIL with you!!! Dicks is losing so much business they had to restructure, including getting out of the hunting/camping market altogether! You can make up whatever fake news you want but normal, sane, intelligent people reject your fakery and your left-wing koolaid!

Conservatives out in the country have other options – Meijer’s, Big R, and also RURAL KING, which supports the 2A and gun owners!!

Heed the Call-up

Not being a “right wing gun toting nut job”, but from a rural area where there is no Wal-mart nearby. However, this Conservative now lives in a suburb of a mid-size city where there is a Wal-mart nearby. Additionally, I don’t shop at Wal-mart, and will not be in the future, either. I also do not buy Chinese products as much as possible, and do buy American as much as possible. I can afford to spend the extra money, not that it always costs more, though. You clearly not only cannot think for yourself, but based on your grammar, syntax,… Read more »

Ej harbet

As long as they sell orange shirts to you bloomberg whores!

ochwill

Why is it necessary to carry a gun that everyone can see. Guns don’t save us. Guns kill us. And 120 Americans get shot to death, or commit gun suicide daily.

Get Out

CCW would be better so they don’t frighten you.
Keep telling that lie Och, CDC Study: Use of Firearms for Self-Defense is ‘Important Crime Deterrent’
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cdc-study-use-firearms-self-defense-important-crime-deterrent
You supposedly carried a gun while in the Marine Corps, did it ever try to kill you?
Please show stats in the future, might make your BS credible.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
Heart disease: 647,457
Cancer: 599,108
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383
Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404
Diabetes: 83,564
Influenza and pneumonia: 55,672
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,633
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173

Scotty Gunn

It’s not frightening people, it’s about being tactical to keep my family safe. If you think I am a sheep, all the better.

Thedoor

@GO i like how all the stats you showed are all natural occuring deaths (besides suicide) where we dont really have power over them… Unlike gun related deaths where it is someones doing. Being shot and killed is not a natural death.

Thedoor

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Get Out

That would be Legal Open Carry.

Wild Bill

@wjd, he thinks that his fake statistics are even relevant. Our civil rights are not based upon crooked statistics or even newspaper polls or public opinion or Congressional votes.

Oathkeepr2020

Nearly 1.25 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day. An additional 20-50 million are injured or disabled. More than half of all road traffic deaths occur among young adults ages 15-44. ochwill, I want to ban your car@!!!!!! Seems more young people are being killed daily by drivers.

Idadho

Those suicides happen even when guns are not available.

12345

That’s great Walmart you doing the right thing… Open carry is wrong it’s asking for trouble innocent people are losing their lives over the insanity of guns so I know that

ochwill

Good post. The “guns everywhere” people here don’t like to hear about the reactions of everyday Americans to their NRA defined “right” to walk around intimidating their fellow citizens with their guns.

Get Out

You keep telling us you were a Marine Corps zero, didn’t you swear an oath to support and defend the US Constitution? Did your Oath not include the BoR 2nd Amendment?

Wild Bill

@GO, Do you suppose that a up vote or a down vote counts as a response for propagandist pay purposes? They are trying hard to post outrageous comments to guarantee a response. Swill must be behind on his garage living space rental.