"Only Ones" exempted, of course.
Maybe the armed robber couldn't read. He probably won't go through the state-mandated waiting period or pay any background check fees, either. Heck, I'll bet he didn't even have the sign-required carry permit--hardly anybody in LA County/Redondo Beach does.
But perhaps they lucked out and he left the required thumbprint...
I'm glad everyone was OK--that store is about a mile from where I used to live and I've been to it many times.
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I think the cashier would agree that my gun needs a little bore cleaning, but otherwise is in working order, so I won't bother him/her to "check" it. Maybe I'll just take my business elsewhere, too. I've had every conceivable self-defense bad dream: forgotten the gun safe combination; disassembled gun; wrong/no ammunition; stranger who "knows best" seizes my gun arm, leaving me a human shield...
Not duing my waking hours, thanks. Being another schlub herded into a back room and executed, and laughed about later, is not in my plans.
Unarmed gun store employees? Too rich. Not at the gun store I frequent.
AJK
I also have not seen an unarmed gun store employee. . . .
But I also have to say the sign was not only "Only Ones" but CCW holders were also permitted.
I don't know what the laws for the area are so I don't know if open carry is legal and that is what they didn't want in the shop.
We all know that the signs don't work but it is a private business so he can do what he wants. . . and we can shop someplace else if you don't like him
jd, Redondo Beach is in the People's Progressive Demokratik Rerpublik of Kollyvornia. Although it's a "discretionary" state, good luck getting a permit!
I haven't been to a Turner's since the 1990's, but there were always armed employees back then. Maybe they got taken over by the corporate types who prefer to see their employees killed rather than face a lawsuit after a robber is killed. :-(
Incidentally, it's actually really easy to get a CCW in LA County provided your net worth is in excess of $100 million and you share it freely with our notoriously corrupt sheriff, Lee Baca.
(Appropriately enough, his last name means "idiot" in Japanese.)
I don't know the Ca. policy as far as gun store employees, in Florida every one I've been too, each employee is armed. One I used to frequent had a loaded full-auto Krinkov behind the counter. I can't believe the sick irony of this.
In Texas, every gun and pawn shop employee I know has carried/carries, some open, some concealed.
It's a private business and whatever is ok by the employer is all that matters.
Any non-employee that walks in with a non-open action, non-cased or holstered firearm will likely make it 2-3 steps in the door, if that, before being verbally accosted. After that he will be drawn upon. Perhaps both at the same time.
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