Works for me.
I’ll respect their private property rights by taking my business elsewhere.
If the lodging business owner does not wish to ensure the safety of its guests, and does not feel that any lawsuits may come from this, then let them!
Me? I’ll take my money elsewhere.
This sounds to me like another government solution to a non-problem and I would rather they stay out of it. I prefer having to enquire about hotel policies when booking a room to having the government stick its nose into private transactions.
Just make sure you avoid the “gun free zone” hotels like the plague. Crime will rates predictably soar at those joints. Ringing the dinner bell for the predators...
Now criminals will know which motels and hotels don’t have guns.
I tend to keep my concealed weapon concealed when in doubt about whether an establishment allows it. If in a hotel, I carry it in its concealed state and do not leave it in the room or store it “for safety” (how inane would that be).
This sounds like a smart law, especially requiring notification to guests *in advance* of their making reservations.
Importantly, this covers both hotels and motels, and *maybe* tourist homes, tourist houses, tourist courts, lodging houses, inns, rooming houses and bed and breakfast establishments, which can include private homestays. These are covered by some Texas laws, but not others.
To make things more complicated, some of these other places use several reservation services, and are listed in books that in future will all need to indicate their gun policies, unless those policies are the same as state law.
(For those who travel a lot, I’ll throw in a plug for B&Bs, because often these cost a lot less and offer a lot more than even expensive hotels. A lot of them are just hobbies of people with big homes whose kids have moved out, so you are treated, in effect, as “company”.)
in Texas, you can legally travel with a weapon in your car without needing to get a concealed carry permit. So what does a hotel think we are going to do with such tools overnight? Leave them in the car where they can be stolen from the hotel parking lot?
If the hotel didn't comply with those terms, the notice was not binding. Some places are apparently happy with that, or oblivious.
After this law is passed, I expect that the lawyers will get involved in the decision, and we'll see the notices where they were never seen before.