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Grapeshot wrote:
Is the issue really disallowing CC or is the intent to not allow any firearms?
I know what the sign says and I would argue that OCing would be in accordance with the sign also; nevertheless, shopping centers, malls et al are notoriously bad about how they word their signs.
What is the practical day-to-day application there? Is OC in fact golden.
Yata hey
Most people CC in Alaska unless doing something specifically outdoors-ish in my experience. Mostly due to weather reasons and the convenience factor when wearing layers.
Chances are the corporate minded people who ordered the sign placement don't have the slightest fathom that OC of a firearm is legal and they thought they were covering all their bases by using the typical media understood phraseology for "no guns".
Or...they COULD know exactly what they were doing, and simply be attempting to curb a CC practice they understand exists in the state, in a way that has no practical effect one way or another.
Probably following the flawed liberal thinking that a sign somehow "forces" patrons to do something, and if a criminal-type sees the sign and is "forced" to open carry, he will think twice before entering the establishment at all. :quirky
A "gun free zone" by any other name and all that...
If I were still in Alaska, I would be tempted to go talk to the management and get their motives behind the sign. One way or another, it still goes against their general corporate policy to follow state law on the matter of allowing firearms.