Summary: From turning its facilities into victim disarmament
zones to funneling millions-of-dollars to rabid
gun-controlling Democrats, the
COSTCO
Wholesale "family" has embraced the very
nightmares that reduced its headquarters city, Seattle,
Washington, into a
feces-infested, crime-ridden Democrat hell hole.
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Creating a No-Go Zone for Your
Family
Why Is COSTCO Subverting Utah Statute?
Loose Cannons in Charge of the Henhouse
Costco's Political Crime Family
Unmasking COSTCO's New Mandatory Facemask
Policy Folly
Joe Biden getting all
"familial" with his fellow gun control zealot,
COSTCO
founder Jim Sinegal.
Both enjoyed the protection of an armed, elite,
taxpayer-funded security team. |
Creating a No-Go Zone for Your Family
COSTCO now actively promotes an environment where criminals
are encouraged to run rampant and law-abiding citizens are disarmed.
From the
COSTCO "Member Privileges & Conditions" page:
"Costco policy prohibits firearms to be brought into
the warehouse, except in the case of authorized law
enforcement officers." [bold added]
No open carry for either employees or customers.
No concealed carry for either employees or customers.
No secured storage for those with firearms, forcing employees and customers
to leave their firearms at home or
in unsecured vehicles in the COSTCO parking lot.
No commitment by COSTCO to protect you while you are in the
store, or to provide any armed protection at all in its
facilities.
How's all that for a "family-friendly"
environment?
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According to
Utah statute 76-10-530, a gun owner "may not knowingly and
intentionally... transport into", "enter or remain in", a "private
residence" (primary or secondary) if "notice" is given by
either:
* "Personal" (i.e. in person)
communication to the gun owner by someone from the
organization, or,
* By the posting of clear signs.
Follow the bolded portions of that statute below:
(1) A person, including a person licensed to
carry a concealed firearm pursuant to
Title 53, Chapter 5, Part 7, Concealed Firearm Act,
after notice has been given as provided in
Subsection
(2) that firearms are
prohibited, may not knowingly and intentionally:
(a) transport a firearm into:
(i) a house of worship; or
(ii) a private residence; or
(b)
while in possession of a firearm, enter or remain in:
(i) a house of worship; or
(ii) a private
residence.
(2) Notice that
firearms are prohibited may be given by:
(a) personal communication to the actor by:
(i) the church or organization operating the house of worship;
(ii) the owner,
lessee, or person with lawful right of possession of the
private residence; or
(iii) a person with authority to act
for the person or entity in Subsections (2)(a)(i) and (ii);
(b) posting of signs reasonably likely to come to the
attention of persons entering the house of worship or private
residence; [bold added]
Clearly, however, Costco is NOT a private residence,
at least as defined by
Utah statute 76-10-501:
(17) "Residence" means an improvement to real property used or
occupied as a primary or secondary residence.
Utah statute 76-10-530
goes on to grant "houses of worship"
unique, additional
ways to avoid personal communication with the gun owner.
Only "houses of worship" can, for instance, merely contact the BCCI
to let them know they want to prohibit firearms.
BCCI then posts a list of those
"houses of worship" on their "Houses
of Worship Prohibiting Firearms on Premises page, and,
according to statute, appropriate notice has been given to gun
owners.
Note: For more history on these
unique special exemptions, see, "Mormon
Corporation President Russell Nelson A-Buzz for Gun Control."
Unless perhaps in the sense that its "family" worships
gun control and other globalist excrement, COSTCO is
NOT a "house of worship."
The only other exception that can be found regards a "secure
facility" under
Utah statute 53-5-710, which, again, clearly does NOT
apply to COSTCO.
It is the current understanding of UT Gun Rights that
COSTCO does NOT have the explicit statutory authority to
prohibit the carrying of firearms, as does a private
residence or "house of worship." Contrary opinions are
demanded at
info@utgunrights.com.
UT Gun Rights has some ideas that it plans to expose in the
future with regard to Utah's corrupted
criminal trespass and
disorderly conduct statutes. These corrupted
statutes empower gun controlling businesses like COSTCO to
circumvent and subvert fundamental natural rights.
In any event,
COSTCO's operations in Utah demonstrate the manner in which so
many of these megalithic corporate conglomerates operate: In the
dark and using every vagary and nuance they can to trick and
deceive their customers into buying in to their deadly gun
control agenda.
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Kenneth French, a
32-year-old non-verbal autistic man, with his parents.
All three were shot, and Kenneth was killed, by an
abysmally-trained Statute Enforcement Agent in a
COSTCO store. |
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COSTCO's only firearms exception is for Statute Enforcement Agents (SEAs, aka "police").
This special treatment
is both dangerous and ignores reality.
For example, on July 10, 2019, SEA Salvador Sanchez shot and
killed Kenneth French, a "non-verbal", "developmentally
disabled" 32-year old, who had shoved the officer to the
ground.
"Sanchez fired not once, but 10 shots that [not] only killed
Kenneth, but also severely wounded both parents. Less
than 5 seconds elapsed between the initial push and Sanchez
opening fire. The Frenches had their backs to Officer
Sanchez when he shot."
Source:
"The
Autism City: The Shooting at Costco," by Michael Bernick,
Forbes, October 29, 2019.
A growing body of evidence indicates that SEAs are less reliable than
citizens at preventing violent crime. Consider these examples:
* SEAs
appear more likely to commit murders than citizens who possess concealed carry
government "permits".
* SEAs are
far more likely than the general population to commit domestic
violence.
*
Concealed carry citizens are often better trained with
firearms than are SEAs. Typical SEA training is
abysmally inadequate.
*
Armed citizens appear to be at least as successful as SEAs at stopping
violent crimes.
COSTCO promotes the false narrative that natural
rights are granted by government, and that government agents
constitute the only legitimate defenders of a just society.
Utah gun owners should take notice: The only "family" COSTCO
is promoting is its political crime family, as further
described in the next topic.
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