Open Carry Texas Activists Are Pretty
Upset With Walmart Right Now
Posted By: StormCnter, 8/4/2019 11:26:08 AM
After open carry went into effect in Texas on January 1, some businesses were inconvenienced by the size of the signs they had to put up, and other businesses were inconvenienced by the fact that they were forced to choose a side in a culture war when they mostly just wanted to sell hamburgers. But one corporation decided to punt the inconvenience over to a particular subset: its store employees. At Walmart, the official company policy regarding open carry is that customers are allowed to bring visible handguns into the store, but that store staff are responsible for verifying that the customer has a proper license for the weapon.
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Posted with Staff permission. The article was written after Texas passed the open-carry law. Walmart had (and has) problems with the requirements.