Free Meal with Concealed Handgun License

Gun Watch ^ | 29 June, 2015 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Chicken Express, located at 2 Warnock Springs Rd in Magnolia, Arkansas, is offering a free meal to people who present a concealed handgun license at their location on July 4th, 2015.   From facebook.com:

On Saturday July 4th we will be giving a FREE #1 combo to anyone with a Conceal Handgun License.
This will be DINE IN ONLY.

You must have your License with you! We hope everyone has a happy and safe 4th of July!

There have been a number of other businesses that welcome both the open and concealed carry of firearms and offer promotions based on the same.  There are many advantages to such an offer.

First is the attraction of a prosperous, well educated, and responsible clientèle.  People who have concealed carry permits or CHLs, whatever the local idiom many be, have been shown to be all of the above.  They are better educated, more prosperous, and are more responsible than the general population.   They are precisely the type of customer that a business would want to attract and keep.

Secondly, there is the increase in store security.  It takes an especially stupid criminal to decide to attempt a robbery at a place that is openly attracting legally armed citizens.  It may still happen.  Many criminals are stupid, many are functionally illiterate, and many are high on drugs or alcohol or a combination when they commit their crimes.  But just as you seldom see cop bars or gun stores as the victims of robberies, there is a clear deterrent effect.

The market will favor signs such as the one above over the dwindling number of "gun free zone" signs.

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[marktwain]

The carry of weapons is becoming normalized.

[dware]

I don’t get it. Celebrate freedom by showing the license that says you have permission to exercise a natural God given right? Can I just show a copy of the 2nd Amendment?

[gaijin]

Meaningful and encouraging.

I don’t have one of those restaurants in town but if I see them ever I’m going to stop immediately I heard they’re fantastic.

[QBFimi]

So, I guess you vote for the Loosertarian candidate in elections?

Please, let’s give credit where it’s due.

[showme_the_Glory]

And the media will continue to say otherwise.

[ExGeeEye]

Yay-men.

Recently read and agreed: a permit is a Right that the government took away from you, in order to sell it back to you, if it wants to.

[WKUHilltopper]

Winner, winner. Chicken dinner!

[dware]

Please, let’s give credit where it’s due.

Ok, here goes: Great job licking those jackboots, statist thug! Nice shine ya got there.

Better?

[dware]

Recently read and agreed: a permit is a Right that the government took away from you, in order to sell it back to you, if it wants to.

Free men don't ask permission to exercise a natural right. If you have to ask permission, you're not free.

[BigCinBigD]

I have spent many a lunch there after mornings of Bass fishing on lake Columbia. That’s some good chicken!

[glorgau]

Darn! I was planning to rob the place on that day.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Requiring a license is one thing, but in gun liberty states they should cut to the chase and say if you come armed, you and your spouse and your minor children get a discount.

And I still hope that somebody can get a big enough venue to hold another “no dealer” gun show.

[dware]

f you come armed, you and your spouse and your minor children get a discount.

Shooter's Grill in Rifle, CO. - "Armed & Delicious" - Just up the road from me. The wife and I pop in every now and again. The waitresses are all armed, and they welcome folks like me who open carry on the regular.