Question about open carry and bars in VA

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Slateman

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So, I went to the movies tonight. The theater is really nice. And it has a bar. In VA, you can't carry concealed in a place that has a license to serve alcohol. However, you can open carry.

Well this theater has a bar. Its in a seperate room, but there is no door seperating it from the main lobby. Just walk through the . . . doorless doorway. I'm not sure, but I don't believe you are allowed to carry your alcoholic beverages into the theater.

So what do you think? Conceal carry as long as I don't enter the bar? Or does the law apply to the whole theater?

Also, what about bars in malls? Like a Bennigans or something? Do I have to open carry over the whole mall?
 
When a restaurant or bar wants to serve alcohol they must get permits from the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to do so. The permits state in which areas the establishment has permission to serve alcohol. You'll notice some bars will not let you take alcohol off their deck, or past the front door; those are the borders covered in their ABC permits. Any establishment that has a permanent ABC license also has registered ABC managers on-duty during their normal business hours. Those people can tell you where the alcohol serving areas begin and end.

I conceal carry everywhere I go, if you're doing it right to begin with no one will ever know.
 
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