Guns in Restaurants and Bars

Posted by Mostly Genius – June 5, 2009

Rustmeister has a clever business card to be dropped off at restaurants in Tennessee sporting the “No Guns” signs. I think this is a great idea. Going one step further: make several designs with or without links to firearms organizations. If a business owner gets ten identical cards he will assume he is being spammed by a small number of people. If he gets ten different cards it might make him realize the amount of business he is missing out on.

I live in a state where you are allowed to carry your concealed firearm into restaurants that serve alcohol and you are allowed to drink. You are prohibited from carrying a firearm into any areas of the restaurant (such as the bar) that are off limits to people under 21. Strangely this doesn’t seem to generate any sort of “wild-west” behavior. The nightclub shootings seem to center around areas of high gang and drug activity (to include “underage” dance clubs.)

  • Whitebread:

    Writing a letter has the benefit of showing a lot more conviction and interest than dropping off a business card, but it is just as easy to throw away and has the disadvantage of identifying you specifically as being an armed patron.

    If I have an established relationship with the business then maybe I could just have a face to face with the owner or the manager. I like the business card idea because I could just drop one off at any restaurant I happen to be passing.
  • I figure that a short letter with details about how often you WERE eating there, as well as a list of restaurants you will be going to instead, plus a request that they send you a letter (with a self-addressed stamped envelope?) when they change their policy, could go further than a generic business card which is easily thrown away. If you're in something less than a very large town, it's worth a little more time to "save" a restaurant that you enjoy.
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