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Walmart Asks Customers to Refrain From Open Carry
AmmoLand ^
| December 28, 2024
| Dean Weingarten
Posted on 01/03/2025 7:48:41 AM PST by marktwain

Walmart Asks Customers to Refrain From Open Carry
This correspondent walks into a Walmart about once a week to monitor local ammunition prices. Long experience has demonstrated that no gun signs are seldom noticed. Some effort is expended, attempting to do better at noticing them. At the entrance of Walmart, a sign mentioning a firearm was noticed, in relatively small letters, among other information, toward the top right corner of the entryway. The notice said:
Kindly refrain from openly carrying a firearm.
This correspondent is armed nearly all the time. Whether a firearm is carried openly or concealed or firearms are carried both ways, depends on what is deemed most advantageous for the particular time and place. Open carry is especially effective as a political statement. Open carry is not as necessary or useful in Arizona since the state restored Constitutional Carry in 2010.
This correspondent carried openly in the local Walmart in May of 2021 and met another customer there who was carrying concealed. At the time, Walmart did not ask this customer to leave the store.
Astute readers will notice the current Walmart signage is a polite request, not a demand or a command. The request only required a minor shifting of clothing to accomplish. A polite society is a positive value. Acceding to a polite request does not mean it must be followed if it becomes burdensome or dangerous to do so.
There are only four states where open carry is generally banned by law. They are California, Florida, Illinois, and New York. One of those states is not like the others. Florida has permitless carry, but bans most open carry of firearms.
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To: Fai Mao
> Exactly. And it is their business, so their rules
Interestingly that’s only cited as a reason when curtailing actual rights but should Walmart put restrictions the lefty activists don’t like or actually stop crime,it’s no longer their rules is it?
I already had my fill of this bleat while Every Single Media platform worked in unison and under the direction of government to silence people on medicine and politics. The antis would be happy to have big business turn Constitutional Carry into No Carry by making it “their rules” that you must be defenseless if you want to eat or shop or conduct normal life.
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posted on
01/03/2025 8:24:42 AM PST
by
No.6
To: marktwain
I actually don’t mind this. Safer to be concealed for reasons mentioned above. Plus, let’s face it - some people are nervous around someone walking in with a gun exposed.
I myself have a seen a couple of really creepy looking people open carry that put me on guard big time.
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posted on
01/03/2025 8:27:07 AM PST
by
Codeflier
(Don't worry....be happy)
To: marktwain
That will be widely ignored here in NH.
Matter of fact, I expect to see MORE open carrying if they post signs like that.
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posted on
01/03/2025 8:29:36 AM PST
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
To: Leaning Right
Concealed is better as it makes you less likely to be chosen as a first target.
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posted on
01/03/2025 8:31:14 AM PST
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
To: Lee N. Field
I searched People of Walmart and couldn’t find much of interest.
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posted on
01/03/2025 8:32:00 AM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)
To: marktwain
This Walmart sign is a simple, polite request, not a command.
Exactly!
It reminds me of homes to which one visits where the host asks you to please remove your shoes.
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posted on
01/03/2025 8:32:38 AM PST
by
EliRoom8
To: Roadrunner383; Gaffer; marktwain
And technically it is a Georgia Weapons Carry License. Issued by the Probate Judge’s office in your county. Probably best to keep one current, for travel if nothing else. Not every state has Constitutional carry.
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posted on
01/03/2025 8:35:36 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Concealed carry....
But ‘Printing’ none the less.
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posted on
01/03/2025 8:36:14 AM PST
by
Big Red Badger
(ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
To: LittleBillyInfidel
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posted on
01/03/2025 8:37:34 AM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: grey_whiskers
“do the needful!”
LOL...sounds like somebody has worked with Indians. That phrase always drove me crazy.
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posted on
01/03/2025 8:39:44 AM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)
To: marktwain
To: Leaning Right
I was at Walmart one day, and this older man had on a slightly tight T-shirt covering an OWB holster with a large framed handgun.
It was so ridiculous that he had to be doing it on purpose. I can’t even imagine looking in the mirror and thinking that no one would notice that.
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posted on
01/03/2025 8:46:53 AM PST
by
scott7278
(Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.)
To: MCSETots
Bentonville insider here, I know a lot about Walmart.
Since 2013, after the Sandy Hook event, many businesses put up signs to ban guns from their site. Starbucks, for one was one of those who did not. So In 2013 those here at freerepublic decided to give Starbucks our business in a coordinated “thank you” of sorts.
Starbucks responded by making it clear that they did not want our business. They clarified that gun carry was not welcome at their store, but there was nothing legally they could do about it. In Newtown CT where i patronized Starbucks they even closed early to avoid the disgusting gun owner from coming in. Managers there said we trampled on the employee “right to feel safe”.
It was also congruent with Walmart. Walmart also did not put up any sign banning firearms. Having backlash from the middle of the country and the biggest users of Walmart, they instead decided to craft that sign. It admits there is nothing they can do to do you from doing it but ask that you do not.
In 2013 there was a big showing of open carry throughout the US.
Walmart has had these signs on their doors since late 2013. Yes. 12 years. They were printed in the Walmart print shop on j Street in Bentonville. I know one of the printers. He told me the story.
The Walton family believes that plebes such as is should only have single shot, small caliber rifles and shotguns and that they themselves should have access to anything they want. The Walton boys are avid shooters, elitest jerks and well known around here.
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posted on
01/03/2025 8:49:32 AM PST
by
Celerity
To: Leaning Right
>> Better to carry concealed, I think.
That’s how I see it. I don’t want to advertise exactly where my weapon is, or even that I have a weapon on me.
It’s your right and all that, so open carry if it makes your socks roll up and down... but it’s smarter and safer to carry concealed.
To: marktwain
A few years ago you would see it all the time. After the pandemic (whether or not that was the reason) you don’t anymore.
To: MCSETots
Bentonville insider here, I know a lot about Walmart.
Since 2013, after the Sandy Hook event, many businesses put up signs to ban guns from their site. Starbucks, for one was one of those who did not. So In 2013 those here at freerepublic decided to give Starbucks our business in a coordinated “thank you” of sorts.
Starbucks responded by making it clear that they did not want our business. They clarified that gun carry was not welcome at their store, but there was nothing legally they could do about it. In Newtown CT where i patronized Starbucks they even closed early to avoid the disgusting gun owner from coming in. Managers there said we trampled on the employee “right to feel safe”.
It was also congruent with Walmart. Walmart also did not put up any sign banning firearms. Having backlash from the middle of the country and the biggest users of Walmart, they instead decided to craft that sign. It admits there is nothing they can do to do you from doing it but ask that you do not.
In 2013 there was a big showing of open carry throughout the US.
Walmart has had these signs on their doors since late 2013. Yes. 12 years. They were printed in the Walmart print shop on j Street in Bentonville. I know one of the printers. He told me the story.
The Walton family believes that plebes such as is should only have single shot, small caliber rifles and shotguns and that they themselves should have access to anything they want. The Walton boys are avid shooters, elitest jerks and well known around here.
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posted on
01/03/2025 9:08:42 AM PST
by
Celerity
To: marktwain
Yeah, I can respect that, and I appreciate the polite ask. I don’t think open carry is wise anyway.
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posted on
01/03/2025 9:19:29 AM PST
by
Obadiah
To: MCSETots
Quite a few years back when Walmart sold handguns, some person bought one at a Walmart in Little Rock AR. Upon legally obtaining the handgun, he bought ammo, loaded it and promptly shot himself in the head.
One reason Walmart decided to cease selling handguns. Then the anti-gun fanatics went after them for still selling “As-s-s-ault rifles!” So they ceased selling those. Now it is only hunting style rifles they have.
On the other hand, a farm store a quarter mile from Walmart has huge counters of handguns and rifles that would make an anti-gun fanatic lose bladder control right in the store.
To: marktwain
Such a sign was on the doors in 2020
At least at my local stores
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posted on
01/03/2025 9:34:06 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ....... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Ate, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Looks like Walmart has a problem with cantaloupe thieves!
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posted on
01/03/2025 9:35:42 AM PST
by
chickenlips
(Neuter your politicians)
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