Reply #63: gee, I think that's what I've been asking [View All]

In jurisdictions that permit the carrying of concealed firearms, property owners/occupants may post their properties as off-limits to concealed-firearms carrying.

So, if I may quote you:

"The sign actually stops someone from bringing in a gun?"

About as well as it might stop some people from speeding or walking on the grass, is my guess. And my feeling is that anybody who feels the bizarre need to have a firearm within reach at all times isn't the person I'm going to trust most to obey signs like that.

Without a permit, someone carrying a concealed firearm is committing a crime. For some people, that might be a bit more of a deterrent to doing it than a sign telling them they may not bring it onto premises that don't belong to them -- when, by definition ("concealed"), no one will know whether they have done so or not unless inquiries are made.

To make the sign effective, one might want to include something like retail stores say about shopping bags that customers carry in. Stores "reserve the right" to inspect shopping bags; if you don't want your shopping bag inspected, go shop somewhere else. A wise property owner might post a sign reserving the right to search the persons of people entering, for concealed weapons. If you don't want to be frisked, go someplace else.

But obviously, the best assurances of the least likelihood of anyone, and the smallest number of people, bringing firearms onto private property where they are not wanted would be (a) to ban handguns from private possession except in extraordinary circumstances (it being pretty difficult to conceal a rifle on one's person), and (b) to implement other measures to deter the toting about of firearms in public, which would of course include all the measures that would make it difficult for people who should not be doing that to get hold of firearms in question in the first place.

Then we could all feel and be safer. And you can just all take *my* word for that last bit.

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