1) Indiana has no restrictions on carrying in bars / places that sell alcohol.
In Ohio, it's a FELONY to carry into an Applebees that serves alcohol, even if you aren't at the bar, or drinking.
Wow.. you had a good meal at Chuck E Cheese? What happened to the cardboard pizza and rancid salad bar??Today my wife and two little girls were out and about, and the girls wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese in Avon. So we stopped in and had a good meal and a good time. But on the way out, In the entry way, my wife spotted a sign with a picture of a handgun with a circle around it with a line through it. It said " No firearms alowed on property, Violators will be prosecuted" I did not see it on the way in, and I had my S&W 9MM, IWB, and the shirt I was wearing was a little short, and my gun could be seen if I moved certain ways. I remember having to pull my shirt down to cover it a few times while I was inside. Luckily I made it out with no one seeing it. So I just wanted to give everyone with kids that may go to Chuck E. Cheese, A heads up, so they wont make the same mistake I did .
I think even with the sign next to the door and even if such signs had any legal bearing, they would have a hard time proving you saw/read the sign.
Violators will be prosecuted?
Can they really do that?
It costs the municipality to prosecute the case too, but yeah, they don't seem to care about our money being spent on prosecuting dubious or arbitrary and whimsical cases. I also suspect that sometimes politics/ ego plays more of a role than we would like.The problem is they don't have to prove anything to cause real issues. The mere prosecution could cost someone tens of thousands of dollars to defend against. So the prosecutor gets a "Not guilty" verdict, the cost of the trial and the person's defense isn't coming out of his/her wallet!! That's part of the problem with the CJ system.
The problem is they don't have to prove anything to cause real issues. The mere prosecution could cost someone tens of thousands of dollars to defend against. So the prosecutor gets a "Not guilty" verdict, the cost of the trial and the person's defense isn't coming out of his/her wallet!! That's part of the problem with the CJ system.
The only law in which you might get prosecuted would be for trespassing:
IC 35-43-2-2 Criminal trespass; denial of entry; permission to enter; exceptions
Sec. 2. (a) A person who:
(1) not having a contractual interest in the property, knowingly or intentionally enters the real property of another person after having been denied entry by the other person or that person's agent;
(b) A person has been denied entry under subdivision (a)(1) of this section when the person has been denied entry by means of:
(2) posting or exhibiting a notice at the main entrance in a manner that is either prescribed by law or likely to come to the attention of the public
Basically, a county prosecutor would have to argue that this sign, as it stands, fulfilled the requirements of (2). Gun owners/right supporters make the arguments all the time that guns don't shoot themselves. Well, the same argument could be used in this case: Guns don't walk into restaurants by themselves either.
Such a criminal prosecution would be very dependent upon the signs size, the exact wording, and the location of the sign. Also, the state may prosecute even if one doesn't see the sign, so long as the sign is "at the main entrance" and gets the attention of the public. Sounds like it got your wife's attention.
Would be interesting to see how trespassing charges based upon a 'No guns' or similar sign would play out.