Steve was heard babbling to Paul Nixon 
 about TARGET,but no guns 
 PN> There is a very exact requirement as to signage in Texas, it has to
 SG> It can't be one of those "No guns" icons, the letters have to be a 
 SG> certain size, etc. But if they *tell* you personally that they don't 
 SG> allow concealed handguns and you don't leave, they can still charge
 SG> you  with criminal trespass with or without a sign. (We tried to make
 Okay, thanks for the clarification.
 SG> Too bad we don't at least have something like your AZ law, requiring
 SG> those  places which prohibit carrying of firearms to have a place to
 SG> check them.  If they had to worry about that aspect, most places
 SG> wouldn't bother to  post.
 That's a mistaken notion that a lot of even Arizona residents have.
 There is no statutory requirement for an entity to check weapons.
 There has been an inferred requirement on the part of governmental
 entities, based on state constitution.  It works less than perfectly in
 practice, with many governmental entities effectively saying "Screw the
 law, Screw the constitution, we're gonna do what we decide to do, and
 you have no recourse, so go piss up a rope."
 We're a long way from being as bad off as f'rinstance
 Massa-freaking-chusetts, or Kalifornicate, but we're experiencing
 significant pressure on legal gun ownership and carry.
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