businesses who support the 2nd amendment

by Zee

It holds that businesses who are customer friendly tend to get more business. Concealed license holders know which businesses post signage, and they avoid those that they can not enter. Would you put up a sign that says NO MEN ALLOWED or one that says NO BRUNETTES ALLOWED? No, then why alienate the CHL demographic? CHLs account for 400,000 consumers, and that number is growing.

The better solution is to post one or both of these:

Note that the above signs ban the ILLEGAL / UNLICENSED possession and encourage the LEGAL / LICENSED possession respectively.

Businesses should understand that legal carry is not a threat to their employees or patrons. In fact, quite the opposite. Businesses that post no gun signs and effective notice signs are potential killing zones.

So business owners, before you post a "NO GUNS" sign, consider what you are really doing. Criminals won't obey the law or your sign. And prohibiting a trained, tested, background checked, and licensed honest citizen from protecting themselves (and you) by refusing them the ability to exercise their 2nd amendment rights is not going to win you any business, nor protect your business, employees or customers.

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Consider this: Upon passage of Tennessee's concealed carry law in 1995, the Captain D's restaurant chain made a decision to ban CHL-holders from their restaurants. Rather than posting discriminatory signs, which they feared would drive away business, the chain obtained a liquor-by-the-drink permit, and placed beer buckets in their front windows. They did NOT place their new product on the menu! After a series of extremely violent robberies and murders of employees in several fast-food stores (which became known in the media as "the Captain D's murders", the restaurant chain quietly removed their beer buckets.
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/What-Business-Owners-Need-to-Know-About-CCW

And in some states, BUSINESSES THAT POST NO GUNS SIGNS WILL BE HELD LIABLE for those deaths.

Businesses May Incur Extraordinary Liability if firearms are not allowed
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/Extraordinary-Liability-Advisory

"Generally, when these businesses consult their attorneys and their insurance companies concerning the extraordinary liability and the extraordinary duty to provide more extensive safety and protection for customers, the signs immediately come down.

We recommend that businesses that have posted such signs check to be sure they understand the legal and financial consequences of such unwise actions, and to be sure their insurance is sufficient to cover the potential for additional liability."

Fortunately, businesses are starting to get the message.

Businesses across Ohio which have removed their "no-guns signs and opened their doors to CHL-holders.
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/BUSINESSES-ARE-GETTING-THE-MESSAGE

NO GUNS SIGNS COME DOWN in businesses
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/SIGNS-COME-DOWN-in-businesses-across-Ohio

Business posts sign "Holstered Firearms Permitted"
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/1399

Bank encourages second amendment
http://www.brenhambanner.com/articles/2010/08/19/news/news03.txt

Lawful concealed carry permitted

Nationally-renowned Charleston (SC) Police Chief Reuben Greenberg told a group of business owners, frustrated by a rash of robberies, that one particular downtown business in a high-crime area hasn't been held up in 20 years because the owner and employees, including the guy mopping the floor, are armed. Try as they might, and great as they are, law enforcement is still most often relegated to cleaning up after the crime has occurred, rather than actually preventing it from happening. As Greenberg put it, "this is the kind of world [we] live in."

And some states are trying to help and encourage businesses to allow licensed carry

UTAH Bill urges businesses to allow concealed carry permits on property
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=9864958

"If a private property owner allows somebody to come onto their property with a concealed weapon with them, [the property owner] cannot be held civilly or criminally liable for the actions of that permit holder,"

http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/What-Business-Owners-Need-to-Know-About-CCW