[AnalogReigns]

Another thing, no one has mentioned. It may well be that Costco gets a big break on their insurance with the "no weapons" rule. This way if someone was shot inside their store, it would be harder to win a lawsuit against (gigantic) Costco corp. claiming some sort of liability.

There are all kinds of reasons why private businesses make private rules for their own private property.

[diemkae]

IF any insurance company gives "big discounts" for clients that institute "defenseless victim zones", it will stop the first time they have to deal with a suit by law-abiding victims who might have been able to protect themselves had they not been made defenseless by a "no guns" policy.

Such policies only disarm the law-abiding... surely no rational person believes that a predator who has already decided to commit capital murder would be deterred by the additional misdemeanor/trespass charge for ignoring a "no guns" sign!