Are you committing a crime if you peel off a NO GUNS sticker on a business door?

[Frosty]

NTSA!

Ok, I'm old, what's ntsa?

 

[IndyDave1776]

I wonder too, never seen anyone try it. You volunteering?

Last summer, someone spraypainted an entire wall at one of the cop shops in Evansville and so far as I am aware never got caught.

 

[bear-girl]

But indiana doesn't have any laws for signs, they are meaningless, unless your asked to leave and refuse or leave and return with your weapon again, you are illegally trespassing. …

This thread is about Illinois and North Carolina, not Indiana.

 

[printcraft]

I make stickers for a living. Remove a sticker, and you remove a part of someone's soul.
30 yrs to life for sticker removal. True story.

Just print more!!!! It's a win, win.
What's a soul worth in today's market anyhow?

 

[Frosty]

This thread is about Illinois and North Carolina, not Indiana.

in my defense it has been several days since I read the op

 

[hysteria]

Recently in North Carolina there was an anti-gun lady who went around to the stores and restaurants where she was a frequent customer and she posted NO GUNS signs on the front doors of the businesses. These were small stickers that she carried with her and she placed them in inconspicuous places in the corners of the doors, windows. She posted the stores as NO GUN so that she would feel safe shopping there. According to the NC law, it is illegal to carry a gun into a store posted with a NO GUNS sign.

She got caught. Turned out it was NOT a crime to post a NO GUNS sticker. But she did make headlines because she was ordered to NEVER return to a BBQ joint in her town by a pro-gun owner.

Illinois has a law similar to the North Carolina law, if a NO GUNS sign is posted at the entrance then it is ILLEGAL to carry into the business; what happens if you PEEL OFF THE NO GUNS SIGN at an Illinois business?

I ask this because my wife frequents JoAnn Fabrics and in Indiana they allow guns. But I recently had to go to an Illinois location to pick up some fabric for my wife and found out NO GUNS sticker on the front door. ​

Is there no language in the law about size and placement?

I haven't read the article but I find it telling that she placed them "in inconspicuous places" and then reasoned that it was to make herself feel safe while shopping there under the guise that it would keep guns out.

 

[Mark 1911]

You're going to need a razor blade to peel off one of those Illinois stickers. Finger nails don't work. Honest.

 

[rolodetective]

I'd say so......not a huge one but it is.
The placing of the sticker is technically a crime too.

In Indiana anyway for both.....and neither are likely to be prosecuted.

 

[Bfish]

You're going to need a razor blade to peel off one of those Illinois stickers. Finger nails don't work. Honest.

I wouldn't say a lot of us here are above that though… I mean we are being honest

 

[Mark 1911]

I wouldn't say a lot of us here are above that though… I mean we are being honest

If it was easy, they would all be gone by now!

 

[sbz]

Yeah, I would just inform the business owner of the sticker. No reason to take a risk, and wind up with some stupid charge for a sticker.

 

[Hogie08]

Depending on where you are in the country, the anti-gunner placing the sticker would probably get a slap on the wrist at worst, but you as the evil gun-toting crazy would likely 3-5 next to Bubba. Never mind that the maximum time served for that crime is only 6 months.

I always just tell the manager or owner, "I'm sorry inform you, but it seems some crazy Feinstein worshiper has defaced your property with a 'No Guns Allowed' sticker. I assumed as a red-blooded American that you would want to be informed so that you can remedy this at once."