Kilgore's hardware, League City...carry or no carry?

[apostate]

This is an interesting question and the ramifications could be carried to an extreme. Many stores, at least in some states - for instance Krogers in Indiana, sell stamps. Does HEB? That kind of makes them a post office. I could see the argument applied to them also.

If the cat has kittens in the oven, that don't make 'em biscuits.

[Oldgringo]

If memory serves, when Texas just passed its concealed carry law back in the 90's it was also illegal to carry in banks. I seem to remember similar questions concerning carrying in stores that had a bank branch located inside. Was it just the bank, or the whole store that was off limits. Moved out of state before I heard a resolution to that.

Banks have never been statutorily off limits in Texas. The rule is simple. Federal property = off limits. The UPS Store, gas station, hardware store, etc that provides some postal services or sells stamps is not federal property.

Brian

plus "concealed is concealed".

[wharvey]

Banks have never been statutorily off limits in Texas. The rule is simple. Federal property = off limits. The UPS Store, gas station, hardware store, etc that provides some postal services or sells stamps is not federal property.

Brian

Could have sworn they were of limits but decade + old memories sometimes get muddled. Maybe my thinking was due to all the no gun signs, 30.05?, of the time.

[C-dub]

Banks have never been statutorily off limits in Texas. The rule is simple. Federal property = off limits. The UPS Store, gas station, hardware store, etc that provides some postal services or sells stamps is not federal property.

Brian

Could have sworn they were of limits but decade + old memories sometimes get muddled. Maybe my thinking was due to all the no gun signs, 30.05?, of the time.

That was and still is, although less so, a common misconception because of the whole FDIC thing. Some banks even tried to say they were off limits because they are "federally" insured. Some still do, but also not as many.

[Ameer]

Could have sworn they were of limits but decade + old memories sometimes get muddled. Maybe my thinking was due to all the no gun signs, 30.05?, of the time.

Maybe they were off limits in Indiana?

[Oldgringo]

Could have sworn they were of limits but decade + old memories sometimes get muddled. Maybe my thinking was due to all the no gun signs, 30.05?, of the time.

Maybe they were off limits in Indiana?

Banks are definitely off limits for CC in Montana which is a Gold Star OC state - and it seems that every major grocery store has a branch bank in it. Go figure???

[wharvey]

Could have sworn they were of limits but decade + old memories sometimes get muddled. Maybe my thinking was due to all the no gun signs, 30.05?, of the time.

Maybe they were off limits in Indiana?

Actually I found far fewer places off limits under Indiana law than Texas. In fact when I first moved up there the only places listed as off limits in the firearm codes were river boat casinos & commercial airplanes. The river boat casinos were the most interesting because first, they had to offer gun check services and second, the restriction INCLUDED off duty LEOs. I believe they've now added buildings with metal detectors and some government buildings.

Even gun buster signs, which are enforceable there, were very few and far between. There were also fewer places off limits in Kentucky.

{edit to change legal to enforceable}

[anygunanywhere]

I have carried in Kilgore's dozens of times and will continue to do so. It isn't a federal facility. It is a hardware store. You can buy stamps at most grocery stopres but that does not make them post offices.

Anygunanywhere