Isnt it funny you ran to find out when I started and stopped but not your comrades? ;-)Ruger357SP101 started this @ 3:43AM today it is now 10:27 PM, stop he is playing with your heads and laughing. He has no life! Good Night to all perhaps I will wake up and this will have stopped.
Respectfully, that's not what Arizona law says. Arizona law defines trespassing as:
A no firearms sign is not prohibiting entry. The no firearms sign is expressing the desire of the property owner that you not possess a firearm on their property, but does not prohibit entry. In other words, just because you are found to possess a firearm past the sign does not mean you are trespassing. Now, once the owner or agent makes a reasonable request for you to leave, and you remain there....THEN you are trespassing.
Further clarification is:
As long as your intent for entering the premises is for a lawful purposes, IE: shopping, eating, you aren't trespassing until the owner/agent asks you to leave. Now, if your intent is to rob or steal, then you are trespassing when you enter.
A no firearms sign is not prohibiting entry. The no firearms sign is expressing the desire of the property owner that you not possess a firearm on their property, but does not prohibit entry. In other words, just because you are found to possess a firearm past the sign does not mean you are trespassing. Now, once the owner or agent makes a reasonable request for you to leave, and you remain there....THEN you are trespassing.
Isnt it funny you ran to find out when I started and stopped but not your comrades? ;-)
Bias much?
WRONG.
Here in Ohio those signs are LAW if they are posted properly..so YOU need to think again.
We're not kommifornia here. The law still respect the RIGHTS of business owners for the time being.
I now feel sorry for you that this is your life and you have nothing better to do. Because this has been a waste of all involved time. non productive and not helpful to anyone.
And so I encourage everone to shun you as I will be doing from now on.
Good Day and May God Look after you.
The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday
Hilarious since I see that your fat rump is sitting behind a PC screen right now posting here just like I am ;-)I now feel sorry for you that this is your life and you have nothing better to do. Because this has been a waste of all involved's time, non productive and not helpful to anyone.
Who cares ?And so I encourage everyone to shun you as I will be doing from now on.
Uh...yeah....you disagree then prove me right....ok :wacko:No, only wrong in Ohio (and some others).
Fine.Several states, including my own, specify what constitutes legal signage.
Which Im not talking about....never have been.Signs that do not meet these rules are NULL and VOID. In addition, a private property owner is not allowed to restrict the possession of a handgun carried by a CHP holder in a vehicle on any property accessible by the public as long as the weapon stays in the car.
Hmmm.The same goes for an employer. An employer may only restrict the possession of a CHP holders firearm in company vehicles. They have no right to restrict the possession of a firearm by any CHP holding employee in a private vehicle parked on any lot accessible by the public. In Nebraska, this rule is by default. In other states such as Oklahoma, and I believe Florida, the rule is specifically mandated by law.
To give an example of how important firearm rights are in my state (as opposed to private property rights), owning and carrying of firearms are protected by the FIRST amendment of our State Constitution. The CHP law states that a concealed handgun may be carried by a CHP holder ANYWHERE IN THE STATE that is not specifically prohibited by law. The law is pretty clear where you cannot carry, and who can tell you where you can and cannot carry. In addition, state law specifically preempts all local laws and ordinances as regards a CHP holder, including all laws or ordinances regarding owning, possessing, transporting, registering and carrying of concealed firearms. These kind of protection are NOT given to property owners, and in fact what you can do you your supposed private property is HEAVILY restricted by laws, regulations and ordinances; at the state level, county level, municipal level, and even by homeowners associations. It would seem to me that gun owners have many rights in this state, while private property owners have little right. A right is hardly a right when nearly anyone can infringe upon it.
Is that a threat, big man?
No, youre just assuming things you dont know.Well, I am rather large, but not one that makes threats. The point was that you make a lot of assumptions about people while knowing very little about them.
Thats pretty ironic because with a few of you guys Im picturing overweight, yellow toothed, middle aged, backwoods hicks wanting to shoot up the woods with machine guns because its their 'right' to hunt with a full auto weapon...hyuck :wacko:What one posts on an internet forum is not the big picture. If I were to judge you by what you write, I would think that you were a pathetic creature living in your mom's basement with an IQ of less than room temperature. I would guess that your parents were related other than by marriage and that the only way that you could reach climax with a woman is if she says "no daddy, please not that again". However, I do NOT know you other than from your posts, and only on this particular subject at that, so I CANNOT say with any certainty that any of the impressions that I have of you are in any way accurate. Consequently, I would not accuse you of such.
Thats pretty good because what youre saying in essence is that you can trample anyone elses rights UNLESS they are willing and able to stop you with force.As to respecting rights, I do not believe in "rights".
A person has only the rights that they are prepared to secure by force.
WOW.As to respecting rights, I do not believe in "rights".
A person has only the rights that they are prepared to secure by force.
This applies to people as well as governments. So, if a property owner is prepared to keep me off his property by force, I pretty much have a choice to make. I will probably follow his wishes unless there is something that I REALLY need to do on his property (seldom the case).
How about moving to Ohio?However, if his entire effort to disarm me is to post some sign that is not even legally posted under the laws of this state, I feel no compelling need to pay much attention to his wishes.
Wrong.I assume that he wants me to buy something, and that is what I am there to do, not discuss his opinion on gun ownership and concealed carry.
You sound like an ex convict...or shortly to be an ex con.I believe that a person only has the "right" to tell me what to do if he has the means to enforce what he is telling me.
Contrary to what you learned in prison, the real world doesnt work like that here in America.Otherwise, he can pretty well kiss my hind end. I really do not consider this at all hypocritical since I also do not believe that I have any right to tell anyone else what to do unless I feel strongly enough about it to force him to do it, possibly at my peril.
I understand completely.Now, my impression of you is that your seemingly small mind is likely to be unable to understand the above concept,
Thats pretty funny, you know?and that you would have to have someone tell you what to think about this since it seems that you really like to have people tell you what to do and have all kinds of laws to follow. However, as I said above, I really do not know you at all, and I may be surprised to even receive an intelligent, thoughtful, and coherent response from you.
Please...let me know when youre done toying with me, friend.You may even display some higher wisdom (although it seems to be hidden up to this point). In any case, if you do not hear from me in the next few hours, it is not because I have tired from toying with you. It is just that I have laughed so hard that my stomach hurts and I really need to lay down and rest.
Then maybe you can explain the tow away signs at our walmarts here that indicate that it IS private propertyWrong ! Walmart, Target, Home Depot et al are not privately owned. They are publically traded.
No, YOU are the one that is mistaken here, not me. A BUSINESS may be privately owned, but it is NOT Private property, it is BUSINESS property, hence the name BUSINESS. If it were the same thing as Private property, it would be CALLED PRIVATE, not BUSINESS. What is so hard for those like you to make that VERY SIMPLE distinction?
Let me give a very simple sample.....
(not debating zoning laws here, so dont use that as a comeback, this is only an example)
If I buy or rent/lease/whatever a building downtown in Smithville, USA....and decide to operate a Retail BUSINESS out of that said building.... I would need to follow certain BUSINESS laws would I not? Licensing, permits, occupancy codes, health codes, etc..... RIGHT? As a RETAIL BUSINESS, by virtue of being such, I have INVITED the PUBLIC into it, have I not?
(remember, most manufacturing type businesses do NOT invite the PUBLIC into their property and can deny entrance to anyone they see fit, the same thing goes for PRIVATE CLUBS)
If, on the other hand, I decide to have my home in this building.... Because I havent NOT INVITED THE PUBLIC into my house/home...... I can deny entry to anyone for whatever reason I want.
Great post.You're very close to being right. But to simplify things even further, look at it this way...There is a property. Either it is owned by the government (fed, state, county, city, etc) in which case it is public property, or it owned by a private entity (i.e. business, co-op, individual, etc) which makes it private property. A business property is still private property. It doesn't matter whether the public is invited or not.
Also, lets look at that concept, the invitation. If I bought a building on 5th Avenue in NYC (yeah, I;m a billionaire. LOL), that would be private property. I own that building. I have all the rights that any other property owner would have. So then I open my building and make it into a business. I invite the public in. I still have all the same rights as the property owner that I had yesterday before I opened my doors. I can ask them to leave and they have to comply or be charged with trespassing.
But lets look at the sidewalk outside my business. I don't own that space. That is owned by the City of New York. I can't forbid anyone from doing anything legal there. Someone can march, and carry signs, and stand on a box and extoll the evils of eating broccoli if they want. As long as they don't create a public nuisance, and don't block the entrance to my business, I can't do anything about it. I can ask them to leave and they can laugh in my face.
Now suppose the planets all aligned and NYC decided to allow the carrying of handguns. I have no say if someone carries on the sidewalk in front of my business. I don't own the sidewalk. But the minute they step foot in my business, I have a say in the matter.
Its a common misconception that a business is public property. But the reality is that it is still privately owned so it is private property.
Public property can also be divided up into categories (i.e. parks, public areas, military installations, etc) but in the eyes of the law, it is still public.
As I stated, I had to become very familiar with these distinctions when I was the Director of Security at that mall.
On a side note, the mall forbid the carry of weapons on the property. I would not shop there when I wasn't working for just that reason. About 2 years after I left that job and moved away, there was at least 1 shooting in the mall, and I think there may have been others. I don't remember. I have always wondered how the mall owners liked their policy after that.