If you even think you'd like an AR, you're not welcome here.......

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All I can come up with is the ever popular, All-American two-word response. Fill in the blanks with your choices.....
 
I try to support pro 2nd amendment places and avoid anti 2nd amendment places. It's not an absolute.
 
Speedo66 said:
So what say you, would you entertain patronizing a business that attempts to police your thought process? Forget the gun aspect for a moment, just substitute any subject you might disagree with a shop keeper on. "If you even think it's OK to put catsup on my prime steaks....."
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I'm 180-degrees out of phase with the restaurant owner on this subject, but I respect her right to choose who to do business with. Granted - there's no way she could enforce such a thing. But if she wants to make it known that certain people aren't welcome in her establishment, more power to her. It's her business. Let the market sort it out.

I also happen to feel the exact same way regarding people of different races & sexual identities. If a handful of hicks want to ban colored people or gays (or people who suppor them), let them. In today's political climate it's a self-correcting problem. All they're doing is allowing other business owners come in & take the money.
 
Slop chutes like hers shouldn't be selling heart attack causing food. Food kills more people than AR's.
 
I spend a lot of time and money in Portland, ME.

The great thing about Portland, is that there are a LOT of great dining options. I'm quite sure I could eat just fine without ever spending a dime at this fruitcakes restaurants.
 
At my place of employment, hybrid, electric, and LEV owners have special preferential parking in the closest spots, right next to the handicapped spaces. Corporate security harasses anyone parking there without an approved vehicle. So bingo... Hybrid owners are suddenly a protected class apparently.
 
I recently read a business-related statement by Michael Jordan on why he doesn't take sides in political discussions.
Something to the effect of "Republicans buy sneakers too."

There's a reason he's worth a lot more now than he was when he was playing ball. :)
 
If you want customers you leave politics out of business. She can take whatever positions she wants but should also expect some backlash.
 
Surface appearance is important to many on several issues, but for the AR-15, would it help to put out the fact that it's not a powerful weapon?

It has the momentum of a .45 ACP and the power of a .44 Mag. Many firearms with different, traditional appearances exceed that.

Would some people with remnants of thinking ability realize what's really going on?
 
I frequent Portland as well and it shows that the intellectually stunted have vacated Massachusetts/NY in droves and ended up in southern Maine. We now show as a Dem state because of the influx of "enlightened individuals" from the lower New England states that settled in southern Maine that want to make it just like what they originally fled from.:banghead: That said, There are many other establishments that welcome me and my 2A views when buying an overpriced meal in that city.:D
 
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“If you own this gun, or you condone the ownership of this gun for private use, you may no longer enter either of my restaurants, because the only thing I want to teach my children is love.” -- Anne Verrill
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Because "Your kind isn't welcome here, scum" is the epitome of "love".
 
Of course I would not give them my business. For a restaurant that's an easy avoidance.

Sometimes it's less easy to avoid those who take a contrary stance regarding the RKBA...like when you and your friends and family have kids but babys r us and toys r us ban firearms from their property.
 
I would bring a bunch of friends in with t shirts, lapel pins, etc. of AR15's. The whole thing would be captured on video. When we were asked to leave, lawsuit. FL-NC
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This may have the biggest impact if 20 people did enter approximately at the same time and order first or even wait until your food arrives before removing your jacket to eat. Drink her wine and let her food sit. That makes her decision count in visible losses if they ask you to leave before paying for anything. Thank them for the wine and bread.
 
About 15 years ago when my parents still lived in Maine, my sister and I drove up from Massachusetts and met them at the Kittery Trading Post as it was a convenient halfway point. We browsed and shopped, then went to the Weathervane restaurant across the street. It was posted with a prominent NO GUNS sign.

I wouldn't have thought it was a good idea to post that sign across the street from one of the largest gun dealers in the state, but what do I know? I asked my family if we could eat somewhere else but was voted down. I talked to the manager on the way out but my admonishment had little weight since I had just eaten there. I wonder if they ever changed their policy.
 
The Weathervane is a decent meal at a cheap price, but it's management has the same corporate culture as the big national franchises. As such, it's a pretty crummy place to work (I've never worked there myself, but have friends who were ill treated there).

Drive up the road a half mile to the new York River House for a real treat.

It's owned by a former Weathervane manager, and he's no Massachusetts Corporate critter.

No anti-gun libs running that establishment.

If you follow local politics, the Weathervane's corporate lawyers tried to sue the York River House out of business with a hogwash bunch of zoning ordinance violation suits. (the place has been a restaurant since the dawn of time, but had a fire and was rebuilt).

If you can't compete, sue em! Typical Mass corporate hacks.
 
GRIPPER - " But us AK guys are welcome,right :) "
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Of course, just as are the H&K 91/93 guys, the Galil guys, the FN/FAL guys, the Springfield M1A1 guys, etc. :cool:

L.W.
 
Tirod said:
Publicly aligning your business to one candidate or single issue means that you are telling other customers to take a hike.

If we would boycott a gun maker for that (like Ruger in the past,) or a restaurant, or a chain store (Dick's, or half a dozen on line retailers) and you think it's a good way to express discontent with their bias, then why do you keep financing the national media and local paper?

Most of the younger generation doesn't - it's the habit of those who won't do a little surfing on the internet for a true balance of perspective who hand them their power base. Turn off the TV and stop watching the 6:00 news. It's been known for a long time they like to rub it in our face, it's now documented that the media is simply passing along political points from their handlers in the DNC.

As long as you continue to enable them they will continue to lie to you and your neighbors, then you get to hear their narrative regurgitated and spouted back at you. I don't understand why so many don't get that - it's as if they not only keep going to an anti gun restaurant to eat, they like having the owner lecture them during the meal.

Square that with some irritation over a vendor shipping more slowly than you like, or that their CS seems to be somewhat cynical. At least we have vendors and they actually answer the phone. But when it comes to stopping the local paper or firing up a laptop for the evening news, they see to prefer being trash talked and lied to.

In the big picture I see a lot of hypocrisy over who to boycott and who not.
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Newspapers? I broke that habit a long time ago. Local TV news is just more national bs.
 
We have to look into the mind of Ann Verrill. Stating that even the THOUGHT of an AR 15 was a ban offense from her property.

Never have I heard even the most virulent anti gunner publicly speak in this psychotic manner.

Is it possible that this person is certifyable? :scrutiny:
 
It is a bad business practice to deny service to paying customers.
Carrying a gun or a wedding cake, just poor judgement turning down money.
 
But refusing to sell a cake to a gay couple will get you arrested; not so for refusing your right to bear arms.
 
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