To YOU that would understand a sign's intended communication and purposefully ignore it:
It is a terrible shame that a large percentage of "law abiding" citizens, at least from reading the responses herein, would ignore a private property owner's wish, no matter how it is communicated. I also see great shame in the way many adults act like fickle teenage girls when deciding moment to moment if they want big brother under foot, or holding their hand. I'm embarrassed for their parents, spouse, kids, associates; they don't have real friends because they can't be trusted.
If it is NOT YOUR PROPERTY, then someone else gets to choose the preferences for the property; preferably the OWNER, NOT the STATE, and NOT YOU. If you insist on visiting that property, why would you intentionally pretend the government is at once your best friend? Just so you can trample someone else's rights? If that's the way you roll, you are not trustworthy nor expected to be a loyal friend, and are definitely of questionable character.
What do you really stand for?? Do you know? So you decide minute to minute?? or depending on the measurements of a sign? Really? That is why I mention the Fickle, teenage mentality.
Either you believe in big government, or you don't. Please stop picking and choosing item for item, minute by minute, one side to the other. You wish the "Govment" to not touch your gun rights, yet you want to use that same "govment" when you can use it to abuse someone else. That just proves that you know just enough to get in the way. Any politician can bag & tag you into one group or another and have YOU voting against your own gun, your own church, your own combustion engine, your own tax-increase, etc.
It would be best if you could pry yourself away from the soap opera, horders, idol, MSNBS, etc and do some studying of your State Laws, or the Federalist Papers, or SOMETHING real.
The SC State law code defining No Concealable Weapons signs is articulated so that law-abiding citizens don't get tricked into entering an unfriendly shop where a warning sign might have been missed due to color, size, or location where you're not accustomed to looking. Not to give you an upper hand in an argument. If that's you, just go apply at your city hall for a badge. They need more folks that want to push people around while hiding behind a law.
IF YOU UNDERSTAND THE MESSAGE, AND IGNORE IT, THEN YOU NEED TO BE FINED OR JAILED FOR YOUR OBSTINATE INTENT, no matter how the message is communicated.
FNSMOAK