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I've driven just about everywhere between Miami and Montana, Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border. Never seen a motel with a sign banning guns. Don't ask, don't tell is my policy.
 
I've never seen a motel or hotel with any such sign or been aware of any such policy, or been made aware of any policy like that.

How would they possibly enforce it in a way that wasn't illegal?

Search my luggage?

Would they have to ask each guest?...

Motel: "Sir do you have any firearms on your person or in your luggage or in your vehicle?"

Tipoc: "Why do you ask me that?"

Motel: "Well if you don't have a gun my cousin Carl over there, the fella with the lazy eye, he'll drop over to your room about 3am. If you do have a gun he won't have to bother. It's all for his benefit ya see."

Tipoc: "What happens if I don't answer?"

Motel: "Carl sleeps in."

Tipoc: "Let Carl get a Good Nights in. By the way, Where's the next closest Motel?"


I've never seen such a policy.

tipoc
 
Pretty sure the Marriott chain has a no gun policy. Though that may have been a case by case thing.

They didn't allow guns during an NRA convention.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2015/...from-good.html
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. Even then, if the hotel wanted to, they could ask for no firearms to be allowed on the property (as the Marriott did when they had a hotel hosting NRA members near the last NRA convention in North Carolina.)
And CPAC as well
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It may not be Marriott. If you followed the links you posted to it looks like the organizers of security for both the NRA convention and the CPAC event instituted a no gun policy for certain of the venues where politicians were speaking. It does not look like a blanket policy by the hotel chain.

I did a story a few weeks ago about the fact that private citizens were outlawed from carrying guns into Sarah Palin speaking events. I decided to keep on the same topic and investigated the rules around firearms at the recent Conservative Political Action Convention held at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington D.C.

I wondered what the response would be from the people who run security at CPAC if attendees wanted to bring their firearms to the event, either with a legal concealed carried gun or a open carried gun.

I called the the person in charge of CPAC at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel who referred me to the person in charge of security. Instead of hearing from him, the next day I got a phone call from the District of Columbia police: Homeland Security Bureau, Special Operations Division, Special Events Branch. The nice officer from MPDC-HSB-SOD-SEB wanted me to know that attendees should not bring their guns to CPAC.

He explained that the only people who could legally have firearms at CPAC were active law enforcement and military in performance of their duties or retired officers who met the standards of HR218, the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act. Even then, if the hotel wanted to, they could ask for no firearms to be allowed on the property (as the Marriott did when they had a hotel hosting NRA members near the last NRA convention in North Carolina.)
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http://www.spockosbrain.com/2011/02/16/glock-block-no-civilian-guns-at-cpac/

tipoc
 
Technically its your home you are paying to live there however short or long the duration. Some folks do rent and live out of hotel rooms on what could be considered a permanent basis.
 
The motel/hotel should never know you even have a gun, therefore it is not an issue. Unless these are federally owned hotels or are schools, it is not illegal to bring a gun into their establishment no matter how many signs they post. The most they can do is ask you to leave, and that's considering they know you have a gun.
 
Hyatt Regency in Wichita, KS is. The last time I stayed there I just chuckled as I went along minding my own business carrying as normal. If there isn't a metal detector that I have to go through, I am oblivious to "no carry zones".
 
Isn't recently or even closed to recently, but I've been asked(was in the bar boozing at the time.) by a Toronto Holiday Inn manager to have a look at a few rifles a guest was claiming were MG's. They weren't. Semi-auto battle rifles purchased in a retail shop.
 
It's pretty hard to conceal a scoped rifle in a soft rifle case that I waltzed through the motel lobby with this weekend.

I guess everybody who says they should never know about it are unfamiliar with hunting trips. The week of Ohio deer gun season, EVERY motel in the south eastern half of the state has no vacancies, and its pretty obvious what these guys are dragging through the motel office. A "no guns" sign might get a lot of paughs, but thats about it.
 
If you are a N.C. resident or a CHL holding out of stater here visiting please be aware that the info in post 15 is in error. N.C. business owners do need to post their property with a conspicuous sign and it does carry the force of law. Charge is a Class I misdemeanor. While we now have more places we can carry there are businesses that are still signed. My bank, the local theater, and the closest mall to me, etc.
GS 14-415.11(c)
GS 14-415.21
 
Having traveled with a cased shotgun besides my handgun and standing there with the luggage, I have never been given a second glance at ANY hotel or motel in a lot of states both on the West and East coasts. I know of no corporate chain that has that policy.
 
I work for Hilton......

And worked for Marriott in the past. There is NO corporate policy regarding guns - except for being carried by workers, dang it. Not only do a lot of people carry into a hotel, and we never ask them, but it is not too uncommon for someone to check out and then our cleaning staff find a left-behind pistol in a nightstand, drawer, etc. The only place you might see a sign saying a hotel does not allow weapons would be a mom-and-pop independent hotel - or casino hotel, as stated already - but I think that really just applies to the casino itself. My PPK is sitting on my desk here in the Embassy Suites as I write this, in fact.

J
 
Strange question. I've never gone to the trouble to ask.

Doesn't matter where I'm staying for the night while on the road. I'm armed.
 
Extension of Home

I travel all the time and have always viewed the motel as an extension of my home. I'm with the "don't ask, don't tell" crowd on this one.
 
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Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies. Hope this says it all. None of their business whether you have or don't have. You generally will not have a problem
unless you invite trouble and make it known that you are carrying.
Regards,
Doc.
 
I've never NOT had a concealed gun on me at hotels/motels when traveling in gun-friendly states. If I can't wear my gun (concealed) when going to and from a motel room late at night, I might as well frequent inner city ATM's late at night unarmed.
 
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