THE BRIGHT SIDE

For those all wrapped up in waiting to shoot other people, or simply those living in fear. 
The following stores allow ‘open carry’ with loaded firearms in their stores locally:  Home Depot.  Yes, of all the ‘big box’ stores, only Home Depot really goes with the holster on the hip thing, or maybe more.  TJ Max, unbelievably, also has no firearms policy.  Walgreens, Aldi’s, Lowes, Target, CVS, Best Buy, and most of all the others have policies against open carry and most of them against carrying conceal too.  Even though they don’t want the exposed guns around, however, all those operations ‘respectfully request’ that guns not be openly displayed or carried.

Good luck on putting teeth into that weak statement.

Also, last Friday, two open carry customers at the Delavan Lowes filed through a checkout line but were not encountered at all by employees about the brazen wearing of pistols on their pistol belts.  In fact, when a customer complained, the many checkers gathered, called management, and management supposedly said that Lowes has no policy about firearms.  The Lowes home office disagrees.  No guns in Lowes at all, by ‘respectful request.’  Make that phrase should be changed to ‘fearful request.’  Starbucks doesn’t allow firearms either.

Wisconsin is an open-carry state.  It’s quite legal, without any permit or training, to carry a loaded weapon in public anyplace that’s not posted against such action.  The Geneva Shore Report recommendation, with respect to places where open carry weapons are witnessed, is to leave.  Just walk out.  There are plenty of places where you will not be exposed to that flashy form of unacted upon (hopefully) macho aggression.  The stores have plenty of staff to reshelve the items you might leave behind in your basket.

Lake Photo of the Week

Beautiful Geneva Lake after the ice storm in late February.