Are guns allowed in grocery stores?

[Goosepond Monster]

This is from the Hotline column in today's Herald Times (the Bloomington paper)...

Packing heat in the produce aisle

QUESTION: I was shopping the other day in a local supermarket when I noticed another shopper pushing a grocery cart. There was a baby in the cart, all properly strapped in and everything, and the man was just pushing the cart, doing his shopping. Stuck into the belt of his shorts at the back was a handgun. His T-shirt was pushed sort of behind the gun’s handle so the weapon was clearly visible. It appeared to be something on the order of a .45-caliber semi-automatic or a Glock, similar to the weapon police carry. Can you figure out the legality, if not the advisability of such activity? It was kind of spooky, to say the least.
C.S., Bloomington
ANSWER: To carry a handgun in Indiana, “you have to have an Indiana handgun permit,” said Bloomington Police Chief Mike Diekhoff. Indiana law prohibits carrying firearms in certain places (except by law enforcement officials or security guards) such as school property, school buses, airports, commercial or charter aircraft and riverboats. In addition, firearms must be locked in vehicles on certain Department of Natural Resources property in the absence of a valid hunting permit and sign-in at the applicable station. A private property owner or business may establish its own policy about whether guns are permitted on the premises. In the future, if you see someone with a gun at a retail store and it makes you uncomfortable, Hotline suggests reporting it to the customer service office or store manager.
Search the concealed carry handgun permit database at HeraldTimesOnline.com/data/gun_permits. Results — provided by the Indiana State Police in October — will include street name, city, county, number of permits on the street and permit type.

Source.

 

[deter]

So its up to the store

 

[PatriotPride]

Yes, it is up to the store. Signs carry no weight-of-law in Indiana; however, if asked to leave it's in your best interest to, as you could be facing a trespassing charge if you refuse to leave. There are some threads kicking around here that detail some of the Pro-2A stores as well as the anti.

 

[PatriotPride]

Try this thread out to get started:

https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...e_flier_of_indiana_s_gun_laws_summarized.html

 

[Goosepond Monster]

I'm guessing folks here can't read them without a subscription, but there are some really good comments people have made regarding this. A lot of your typical freak out because someone is carrying a gun types, but there are also quite a few people who are saying he has every right to carry the gun...he just needs to carry it in a little safer spot.

 

[CSK22]

It appeared to be something on the order of a .45-caliber semi-automatic or a Glock, similar to the weapon police carry.

ohhh brother......here we go

 

[schafe]

Once again the Herald Times is promoting their soon to be illegal LTCH database !! They intend to get all the mileage they can out of it before the new privacy law goes into effect. They must be seething about gun owners standing up to their bullying. They stuck the knife in and twisted it by recommending that the armed citized, just doing his grocery shopping, be reported to management "If it makes you uncomfortable". Nice folks, eh?

 

[eldirector]

In the future, if you see someone with a gun at a retail store and it makes you uncomfortable, Hotline suggests reporting it to the customer service office or store manager.

In the future, if a disarmed patron makes you uncomfortable, report them to customer service!

 

[AndersonIN]

Indiana: Herald-Times Publishes Gun-Permit Database

Go to this web site and follow the NRA recomendations!! LOL I DID!!!

 

[Shadowbeach]

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[AFA1CY]

Indiana law prohibits carrying firearms in certain places (except by law enforcement officials or security guards) such as school property, school buses, airports, commercial or charter aircraft and riverboats.

WRONG! Airports are not prohibited as long as you don't go beyond the security screeners.

 

[jeremy]

I think you are allowed to carry on charter aircraft also...

 

[jeremy]

I wish this camel they have the dish on over here would stand still long enough for decent internet....

 

[pathfinder317]

And the sight of a gun prompted this person to write the local paper , instead of calling the cops ????
Wow they are lucky the guy didn't go postal and shoot the place up , or take hostages

 

[Griffeycom]

Once again the Herald Times is promoting their soon to be illegal LTCH database !! They intend to get all the mileage they can out of it before the new privacy law goes into effect. They must be seething about gun owners standing up to their bullying. They stuck the knife in and twisted it by recommending that the armed citized, just doing his grocery shopping, be reported to management "If it makes you uncomfortable". Nice folks, eh?

I understood the new law to prevent the further release of the LTCH database from ISP. Existing lists will not be made "illegal." I could be wrong though, just the way I understood it.

 

[rmabrey]

I'm going to the grocery store now......maybe its time I lose my OC V-card

 

[Mr. Habib]

I'm going to the grocery tonight, in Bloomington. I will be OCing.

 

[Jack Ryan]

buzzzz

buzzzz - wrong button

 

[bigiron]

bloomington 911, whats your emergency?


oh my GOD! maaaaa.....maaaaaan........maaaaaaaaaa......man with gu.....ggguu.......gggguuuuuuuunnnnn...nnnnnn......send help, hes buying doritos and a frozen pizza! hes holding a child hostage in a shopping cart by strapping the poor child in with the safety belt. send help soon, he has a glock and those guns go off unexpectedly. please hurry, my ice cream is melting!

 

[2cool9031]

I carry in the grocery store all the time BFD...