Anti-gun Businesses Listing iPhone app & Android app

xwing

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I've co-written a gun-carry iPhone and Android app that I think might be of interest. This app is a crowd-sourced listing of anti-gun locations (stores, restaurants, etc…) across the United States.

Posted! - Carry List Anti-Gun Locations.
iPhone/iPad: (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id530004581?mt=8)
Android: ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ryan.posted)
or search either the Google Play or the App Store for "Posted Gun"

I based this on what I and others I spoke with thought would be really useful! I always found it annoying to make plans with friends to go to a restaurant, only to be turned away at the last second because of their “no guns” sign, or to drive all the way to a store, only to find out I could not enter to buy the item I needed. This app makes it very easy to find locations that prohibit carry (based on current location, city, or name), so you know before going to one. And it makes it very easy to add such locations to the list (including picture, GPS, address, and description), so others will know where to avoid.


The description is below. Please let me know what you think! I’m always looking for ways to make it better.


App Description:
This application is for any gun owner! The purpose of this app is for the legal and conscientious concealed carry license holder to know where they cannot legally carry before getting there. A licensed permit holder or a resident of a constitutional carry state can usually legally carry their firearm in any location other than statutory "no carry" locations such as schools, gov. buildings, etc., and in locations that are posted prohibiting firearms. This is a list of those Posted locations.

Find hotels where you can’t carry before booking a trip to one. Find restaurants where you cannot carry before making dinner plans. Find stores to avoid before you step out the door. It is extremely inconvenient to not find out until you get to a location that they prohibit your second amendment rights. You have to either disarm in the parking lot (causing your vehicle to be a target for thieves) or go somewhere else at the last second. If you know beforehand, you can avoid the places that prohibit carry, or you can leave your firearm at home if you must attend.

We have a comprehensive list of "Posted anti-gun" locations collected in Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. We have assembled smaller lists in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Washington and West Virginia; all provided by many great gun forums and sites with their permission. Since it is crowd-sourced by users like you, please be patient while the list grows! The initial Database doesn't have listings yet for other states. Be the first person in your state to grab data and add it to the app! You receive attribution for listing, and will receive special thanks for starting your state's listing!

This list is user-updated, and will continue to get better over time. But this relies on you! If you go to a place not on the list and they have a sign, please add it with a few clicks via the "Add Location" button! If a place had taken down their sign, get it removed the same way! If you already have a list of anti-gun businesses in your area or state, please send me an email. We would love to include any data you have collected, and give you credit for it!
 
Nothing for California. :(
Currently only 4 locations added for California so far. This app has 33 states so far either well-covered or partially-covered. But if you're in CA, please add a few locations and help jump-start that state. :)

Sounds like a very good concept. Particularly if you could give some feedback to the stores in question that this sort of app exists.

Thanks. That mechanism does exist in the app. It has "Call", "Email" and "Website" buttons for contacting each business which are active for all businesses where such contact info has been added by users. Clicking the buttons let you provide feedback right away, and hopefully turn some of the locations onto the right path. I know a few that have...
 
As long as those idiots at Buffalo Wild Wings are on there.

Yep. They're actually currently #1 in the "Wall of Shame" for number of posted locations found, but it's a tight race with "Toys R Us" for worst business.

Will this work for iPad?
Yes. It works on the iPad, and has iPad specific views (instead of the simple "x2" option).

Some of the reviews for IPhone indicate it crashes upon opening. Is that problem being addressed.
Yes, that issue was already addressed. It was a problem with one specific update on IOS6, but has been solved.
 
Simon Malls listed? Like...all of them? They don't have signs at the doors. You only find out you're not allowed to carry in the mall after you enter the mall and go to the actual management offices...or as I like to say, you only find out you've committed a misdemeanor after committing a misdemeanor (or just get chucked from the place and put on a blacklist if it's Iowa).

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Simon Malls listed? Like...all of them? They don't have signs at the doors. You only find out you're not allowed to carry in the mall after you enter the mall and go to the actual management offices...or as I like to say, you only find out you've committed a misdemeanor after committing a misdemeanor (or just get chucked from the place and put on a blacklist if it's Iowa).


Simon malls are very anti-gun. There are a large number of them listed. Most of them do have postings in various spots, but they are sometimes very inconspicuous (e.g. hidden deep within the mall rules on a smaller sign somewhere in the middle of the mall.)
 
Nice concept, but if there are no metal detectors and you keep it concealed........................ it would actually be proof you should have known, (if found on your phone) So... I am NOT interested.
 
Simon Malls listed? Like...all of them? They don't have signs at the doors. You only find out you're not allowed to carry in the mall after you enter the mall and go to the actual management offices...or as I like to say, you only find out you've committed a misdemeanor after committing a misdemeanor (or just get chucked from the place and put on a blacklist if it's Iowa).

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In Iowa signage is not law. You are only breaking the law if you are asked to leave and do not comply. I carry everywhere even in posted stores other than govn. Buildings. Never been asked to leave, oh yeah because it's concealed.
 
In Iowa signage is not law. You are only breaking the law if you are asked to leave and do not comply. I carry everywhere even in posted stores other than govn. Buildings. Never been asked to leave, oh yeah because it's concealed.

Yeah whenever I'm in Iowa I'll carry wherever I want (except expressly prohibited locations of course). Screw those Simon clowns. I've seen their compound in Carmel, Indiana (near Indianapolis), my aunt lives there...it's literally impossible to see a single building from the street despite what the overhead satellite photos show (giant wrought iron fence surrounding the gated....estate). What looks like a nine-hole par 4 golf course. Armed guards at the gate, wee that's hyocrisy. I'd venture to guess that they have armed guards patrolling the property as well. Here's an overhead of Mel Simon's house...err, mansion:
Bing Maps - Driving Directions, Traffic and Road Conditions

The worst that they can do is ask me to leave and possibly blacklist me from a mall for not seeing a sign that's posted on the door of the management office of the mall, which would require me to actually enter the premises first. Actually having to enter a building to find out you can't carry in the building and then being thrown out if you are carrying (and they catch you, which is another story), not sure if that's quite legal. I guess the rent-a-cops don't even care as long as you're not OC'ing and I always see uniformed LEOs OC'ing in a Simon-owned mall in Moline, IL (even though the policy states otherwise).
 
Sounds useful, especially for those places where signs do matter.

Too bad all I have is a semi-bright phone.
 
Nice concept, but if there are no metal detectors and you keep it concealed........................ it would actually be proof you should have known, (if found on your phone) So... I am NOT interested.

It's not a question of knowing or not. In most states you are not required to comply with no guns signs on private property. You are simply required to leave if asked to do so if you are discovered to be carrying. If you leave when asked to do so you have broken no laws. You can't be arrested, detained by security or hassled in any way other than being asked to leave and escorted off the property.
 
Anti-gun Businesses Listing iPhone app & Android app

I have had the app for a few week and I am adding places as I find them.
 

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