So I have been open carrying for a couple of months now and frequent the lafayette academy a lot, at least once a week. I never had a problem until tonight.
I was looking at the wrangler jeans when I noticed a worker in his 40's locked onto my para warthog. I hear him call over another employee and tell her to keep an eye on me and then he calls for a manager. I knew I was about to be asked to leave and tried to ask the girl that was "watching me" a question before the manager came. The guy that called for a manager came over and told me that academys store policy didn't allow guns on the store floor and told me how if you buy a gun there they have to walk you out the store. I explained how I knew that process well as I had bought 5 guns from them last year. I asked if I covered it if it would be o.k. He said no he would know it was there. He said to go put it in the truck and next time to leave it there too. Now I was polite and complient the whole time and was even the one who asked if I should leave before they had a chance to ask me to leave but this is where it goes bad.
When he told me that I couldn't carry concealed and to leave it in my truck next time, I replied with "If that is the store policy I will not be shopping at academy." The guy gets pissed and says if thats the case I need to leave NOW and I guess you would call it "nudged" me towards the door. It was not a full push but there was phisical contact. I remained polite and the other manager walked me to the door. I felt like he had me against a wall cause I had been asked to leave and if I stayed and argued it would be refusing to leave. My mom was with me because she had just taken me and my daughter out to eat while my wife was at work. She went back in and got the guys name who had touched me and I will file a complaint. I gotta give him credit though, I am 6' 300 pounds with a gun on my hip and he still got a little phisical with me. Plus how hipicritical is it of academy to sell you a gun and then tell you they don't trust you with it.
I was looking at the wrangler jeans when I noticed a worker in his 40's locked onto my para warthog. I hear him call over another employee and tell her to keep an eye on me and then he calls for a manager. I knew I was about to be asked to leave and tried to ask the girl that was "watching me" a question before the manager came. The guy that called for a manager came over and told me that academys store policy didn't allow guns on the store floor and told me how if you buy a gun there they have to walk you out the store. I explained how I knew that process well as I had bought 5 guns from them last year. I asked if I covered it if it would be o.k. He said no he would know it was there. He said to go put it in the truck and next time to leave it there too. Now I was polite and complient the whole time and was even the one who asked if I should leave before they had a chance to ask me to leave but this is where it goes bad.
When he told me that I couldn't carry concealed and to leave it in my truck next time, I replied with "If that is the store policy I will not be shopping at academy." The guy gets pissed and says if thats the case I need to leave NOW and I guess you would call it "nudged" me towards the door. It was not a full push but there was phisical contact. I remained polite and the other manager walked me to the door. I felt like he had me against a wall cause I had been asked to leave and if I stayed and argued it would be refusing to leave. My mom was with me because she had just taken me and my daughter out to eat while my wife was at work. She went back in and got the guys name who had touched me and I will file a complaint. I gotta give him credit though, I am 6' 300 pounds with a gun on my hip and he still got a little phisical with me. Plus how hipicritical is it of academy to sell you a gun and then tell you they don't trust you with it.
because someone touched you.
