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General Categories => Carry Issues => Topic started by: brandingman on March 29, 2013, 10:46:56 PM
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When there is a bank branch inside a grocery store is the entire store off limits for concealed carry or just the actual square footage the branch occupies?
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This might have been touched on by your CCW teacher.
AFAIK, it's just the square footage of the bank.
If you walk up to a teller, you're prolly within the bank property BTW and shouldn't be armed.
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Acording to my CCw instruction, your ok as long as you do not enter the bank branch boundry, they lease the property and is not a bank, but don't go up to the teller. Once you cross the internal part of the bank you are in a bank.
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Maybe someone will be able to cite code that will definitively answer this question...but I doubt it. As mentioned above, the SAFE thing to do is not to enter the "bank area" inside the store. I think a prosecutor would be hard pressed to define what area is "the bank" when there are no physical walls. Some banks in stores (Russ's at 70th & Van Dorn for example) seem to have a pretty well defined structure representing the bank.
Fly
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This has come up a couple of times on the forum and I think the reason it hasn't been answered definitively is that there has been no case law to clarify... IIRC
Conventional wisdom is that you don't approach the bank or do business there if you are carrying. Some even plan their checkout lane so that they don't have to walk across the front of the bank on their way out.
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And concealed is concealed .....
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Everyone seems to be on the same page and that's what I thought too. Thank you all for your input.