Walmarts here in Oregon are not posted as far as I've noticed. I don't recall it in Tennessee either. I was once about to go into a store in downtown Portland when I noticed the sign by the door. I took down the name and address and wrote the owner explaining that the sign will not keep out criminals. They're not called outlaws for no reason. And that in order to have a CHL in Oregon you must not have ever committed any violent crime, no misdemeanor in the last five years, and no felony ever. That would exclude anyone convicted of minor shoplifting in the last five years and anyone ever convicted of check or credit card fraud. The crime rate among Oregon's CHL holders is considerably lower than the rate among Oregon's sworn law enforcement officers. By posting that sign, a business excludes the exact people they'd like to attract without keeping out any criminal. If some criminal is bent on robbing your store, do think he's gonna get to the door, see that little sign, and say, "Opps, can't rob this store. They've got a sign. I'll just have to take my S&W and try the place next door." Of course not. The next time I was down town, I noticed that the sign was gone from that door and so me and my P7 went in.
In Portland, the only businesses I know of that are posted are The Place To Shoot, an indoor shooting range, and you can appreciate their desire that all guns be brought in unloaded and in cases for safety sake, and The KOIN Center Tower. While The KOIN Center Tower is the headquarters of KOIN Radio and TV, it's really a big office building occupied by lots of professional businesses and such. There's also a movie theater complex that's part of it. Anyway, they had a very nasty mad gunman, take-over, hostage sort of situation there a number of years ago (the gunman was not a CHL holder, BTW) so you can sort of understand their sensitivity.
Radio Shack had a national policy to post all of their stores where applicable years ago, but most of the Oregon store managers, realizing that it wouldn't be politically correct in Oregon, sort of lost that memo. The national organization has since made that policy optional.
If the Walmart in your area is posted, here's what I want you to do: go in and ask to try on a pair of pants. Once you're in the dressing room, make a big production out of removing your jacket, the gun in your waist band, the one in your back, your shoulder holster, and your backup piece on your ankle, then take off a few large knives too, maybe a couple of collapsing batons, etc. Try on the pants, take them off, replace your own pants, replace all the guns, knives, etc., check yourself carefully in the mirror for any printing, etc., and then walk out. You know that all of those dressing rooms have hidden cameras. So, the question is this: will they admit that fact or not? If they bust you for carrying, they'll have to admit to the cameras. Hmmm.
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Chuck
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