Post by Admin on Sept 9, 2019 6:01:34 GMT
Walgreens, CVS, Others Also ‘Ask’ Customers Not to Open Carry – Are Open Carriers to Blame?
by John Boch |Image courtesy of Walgreens.
Walgreens Statement Regarding Open Carry in Our Stores
05 September 2019
We are joining other retailers in asking our customers to no longer openly carry firearms into our stores other than authorized law enforcement officials.
Obviously, asking customers is not the same as forbidding it. At the same time, anyone open-carrying in a Walgreens will probably be asked to either conceal their Roscoe or take it out to the car. That would no doubt go double for anyone slinging a long gun or a braced AR pistol that the average Joe/Jane would call a long gun.
Is this sudden and very public change by prominent big chains a direct result of open carry “activists” doing “Second Amendment audits?”
I’m talking about the boneheads who open carry their long guns in public places. These imprudent people say their purpose is to test police knowledge of the law and acclimate everyday people to seeing other folks carrying firearms out in public. In reality, they freak out Suzie Soccermom and their soy latte-drinking spouses. They scare children. And they alienate the general public from gun rights and gun owners alike.
Courtesy NewsNowOKC and YouTube
Courtesy NewsNowOKC and YouTube
Here’s the video from that incident.
Videos like these are all over YouTube. And these folks don’t always do their “audits” in public parks.
by John Boch |Image courtesy of Walgreens.
In a single-sentence statement Thursday, pharmacy giant Walgreens joined Walmart, Kroger, CVS and others in asking customers not to open carry in their stores.
Walgreens Statement Regarding Open Carry in Our Stores
05 September 2019
We are joining other retailers in asking our customers to no longer openly carry firearms into our stores other than authorized law enforcement officials.
Obviously, asking customers is not the same as forbidding it. At the same time, anyone open-carrying in a Walgreens will probably be asked to either conceal their Roscoe or take it out to the car. That would no doubt go double for anyone slinging a long gun or a braced AR pistol that the average Joe/Jane would call a long gun.
Is this sudden and very public change by prominent big chains a direct result of open carry “activists” doing “Second Amendment audits?”
I’m talking about the boneheads who open carry their long guns in public places. These imprudent people say their purpose is to test police knowledge of the law and acclimate everyday people to seeing other folks carrying firearms out in public. In reality, they freak out Suzie Soccermom and their soy latte-drinking spouses. They scare children. And they alienate the general public from gun rights and gun owners alike.
For example: An “auditor” in Edmond, Oklahoma scared some families while open carrying his 9mm “pistol” in a park there. Of course, concerned folks with their kids called 9-1-1 and guess who responded….
The screen grab above is the backup. Below is the first first responder.
Courtesy NewsNowOKC and YouTube
Here’s the video from that incident.
Videos like these are all over YouTube. And these folks don’t always do their “audits” in public parks.
Others have garnered mainstream media coverage of their antics. And more often than not, they aren’t doing gun owners any favors.
