How many of you carry to the BAR/CLUB

How many of you carry one inside the bar/club?

  • I carry it anyway

    Votes: 9 17.3%

  • I don't carry where I am not s'pose to

    Votes: 31 59.6%

  • I don't want to answer that stupid question

    Votes: 12 23.1%
  • Total voters
    52
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I have carried in the bar when visiting a friend up in PA, it's legal there (plus his family owns the bar and I wasn't drinking...I wouldn't if I was drinking though).

Don't here in Texas has it's illegal.
 
Live in Virginia, and like said before, it's illegal to carry anywhere they serve alcohol. We came real close to being able to carry as long as we weren't drinking, but the bill was vetoed.

This means I often have to leave my weapon locked in my car when I go out to eat. Still, they haven't passed any laws about carrying pocket knives in bars yet. And it's better than nothing.

I will admit to getting takeout from a BBQ place down the street from my work about 15 times before I noticed that they had beer in a cooler behind the counter.
 
I don't go to bars as a general rule but it's about 50/50 because it's different in different states. I don't really get the choice here because I'm in a county run by an evil hell creature.
 
Its legal in Michigan if the establishment makes less than 50% of its revenue from alcohol sales. So bars = No, Restaurants = Yes. Our Blood Alcohol Level requirements for carrying is < .02 so you really can't imbibe, but you can be there.
 
You can't carry if they sell ANY alcohol? Wow!

Here in Florida, it's illegal to carry in areas where the sale and consumption of alcohol are the primary purpose. So you can carry in Applebees, but you have to be sitting at a table, not up at the bar.

I have to imagine that even a night out with the wife means the gun spends a lot of time in the car, since most restaurants sell alcohol, and even some movie theaters do as well.
 
I'm not much of a bar guy; in TX, if the place gets more than half its revenue from the sale of liquor, no guns are allowed ... I always carry when we go to restaurants; if my wife can con me into going dancing at a C&W bar, I leave the gun in the car ... safely locked up, of course ...
 
I'm an experienced homebrewer, and without tooting my own horn too much, have learned by experience that I simply can't find better beer in a bar than I can make myself. Since beer is the only alcohol I consume, and I'm married and have a kid, there really isn't much reason for me to ever go to a bar.

That said, I think the zero tolerance policy of Texas and other states (can't carry after having any alcohol whatsoever, can't carry in a "51%" establishment) is too draconian and strict. I think a CCL holder should be trusted to behave as an adult to the same degree that other adults are; and that the only if the CCL holder is behaving irresponsibly should his license be jeopardized. I don't think having a beer or two in a bar is behaving irresponsibly.
 
While it's legal here in Indiana, I don't frequent bars or clubs (I'd much prefer to have a quiet drink at home or a friend's home and I do not dance) so it isn't really an issue.
 
Haven't been to a bar in years, but it is again the law here, and a club is something they use to play golf....right?
BTW, unless you brew with grain (not syrup) you are not an experienced home brewer.
 
Florida law prohibit bars. You may be in a restaurant that serves alcohol, but must not be in the bar area, usually an area off by itself or separated in some way from the dining area. Though they may serve food in the bar area, one may not enter that area or eat in that area, or even pass through it.........................ck
 
I dont drink anymore but when I did, bringing the gun never even crossed my mind. I have never liked the taste of beer or liquor and didnt like the bar scene, so if I was going out, I was gonna get stupid drunk. For that reason and the fact it is very illeagal, I never carried in bars.
 
Live in Virginia, and like said before, it's illegal to carry anywhere they serve alcohol.
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Incorrect. You may carry openly anywhere they serve alcohol, unless the owner/manager objects and requests that you leave. If, for some odd reason, you refuse to leave, you could be charged with misdemeanor trespass. You may not carry concealed, permit or no, in establishments that serve alcohol for on-premises consumption.

The General Assembly passed legislation lifting the ban on concealed carry (with a permit) in restaurants or bars, but the measures was vetoed by Governor Timothy Kaine
 
I am almost sure the it's illegal in every state to carry inside the BAR/CLUB or anywhere where they sell alcohol except for restaurants I think.
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Why are you sure, and why should it be illegal? One would be hard pressed, while traveling thru Nevada, to find a place to eat that didn't also have a bar and slot machines. It's common to have to go from the restaurant thru the bar and gaming area to get to the restroom.

I have on occasion, sat at a bar and drunk a non-alcholic beverage (legally) while waiting for a table--like at Outback. The standard in my state for alchohol comsumption is the same as for driving.

It's strongly recommended that one doesn't go drinking while armed. I wouldn't do it, even if I still drank.

A while back in the small town of Winnemucca, Nv., a gentleman was in an establishment (best described as a roadhouse/bar/nightclub that also serves food) in the early hours of the morning, doing I'm not sure what (probably eating), but he wasn't drinking.

A man with a gun came in and murdered another individual at the bar--emptying his pistol in the process and hitting two innocent victims.

As the murderer was reloading his pistol, the gentleman I mentioned, drew his licensed 1911 and shot the murderer once in the chest, followed up quickly with one in the head--- ending the matter rather decisively.

The samaritan was questioned and released. Had he been drinking, I'm not sure things would have gone as well for him. Even the liberal Reno Gazette Journal didn't make an issue of it.


The shooter spotted his adversary in a bar, left, and came back armed.

Incident was, reportedly, a revenge shooting involving two individuals, said to be gang affiliated, who were residents of a country that has a common border with our own.

The samaritan was unaware of the nature of the shooting, and saw a man empty a pistol in a bar, shoot multiple people, and attempt to reload. Bar patrons generally praised the man and felt that he'd saved innocent lives--especially their own.
 
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Incident was, reportedly, a revenge shooting involving two individuals, said to be gang affiliated, who were residents of a country that has a common border with our own.
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Damn those Canucks! How are they able to enter this country so easily anyway?
 
I've been carrying since I was a kid and well before all of these new laws. The laws are WRONG and I'll keep carrying on just as I've always done. Bars aren't a big factor for me anymore but I can remember times when you carried open just so everybody knew.
 
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