Should Your Small Business Welcome Legally Carried Guns?

[Randy]

There are some social issues in our country that are just downright contentious and even after years of public debate, sides seem as polarized as ever. Most don't impact the small business owner, but gun law is an issue that some owners need to consider.

http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/entrepreneurs/2014/08/20/should-your-small-business-welcome-legally-carried-guns/

[jFader]

Interesting..... thanks for sharing.

I try my hardest not to patronize any business that does not allow FireArms inside.

Other than my bank of course because of that idiotic clause in the Nebraska CHP statute.... I hope that in the near future we can get that reWrote & then I can choose a bank that respects the 2nd amendment.... I really like the credit union that I recently switched to, they are posted but I don't really hold it against them too much because I can't defend myself in any bank anyways.

[Mudinyeri]

I light of the recent ruling related to the Colorado theater shooting this is very interesting indeed:

Businesses must take measures to help assure customer safety. That's why we put out orange safety cones when the floor is wet. After a shooting outside of a Jackson, Mississippi convenience store that prohibits guns, David Butts, an attorney from Tupelo, said this:

"...what about the situation where a customer, legally armed, either openly or with a concealed carry permit, disarms themselves to do business in the 'no firearms' business and is injured or killed by some gun-wielding thug intent on committing a crime? What does the owner’s duty of 'reasonable care' to protect the customer mean in those circumstances?"

[gsd]

Other than my bank of course because of that idiotic clause in the Nebraska CHP statute.... I hope that in the near future we can get that reWrote & then I can choose a bank that respects the 2nd amendment.... I really like the credit union that I recently switched to, they are posted but I don't really hold it against them too much because I can't defend myself in any bank anyways.

Drive-Thru.

[jFader]

Drive-Thru.

I usually do!  I try to avoid banks like the plague.... even though they always have attractive women employed there!

[DenmanShooter]

1.) If it is concealed, we don't know they are armed.  Legally or otherwise.  No harm, no foul.
2.) Nebraska is open carry.  So if they aren't waving it around and threatening, then it is legal and no harm, no foul.

We (where I work) are not signed either way.  But most know we don't really care one way or the other and  just expect folks to behave.    Of course, most of the employees are used to it anyway. Also they have no idea if we might be carrying or not either. 


I realize the question covers more than Nebraska, but since that is where we are...

[Mudinyeri]

My business doesn't have signs either but we have at least two NFOA members working here and I sell Tactical Walls ....  Not that we get a lot of customer traffic but that may change in the not-too-distant future.