Open Carry as political statement

[dogmush]

I was polite and honestly bemused the whole time.  I kept expecting a manager or something to come up, but the employees were perfectly friendly.

[Ben]

Ha ha! I've always wondered what the reaction would be in a Whole Foods or similar. The best I've ever been able to do is wear an NRA t-shirt into the Santa Barbara Trader Joes when I lived there. All I ever got was a couple of dirty looks.

 I think you should make a list of all the hippie places in Newport News and pay them all a little visit.  

[seeker_two]

Although Texas has OC now, I haven't OCd yet. To do so, I would have to tuck in my shirt outside of my (nonpermissive school district) workplace. And I'm just not ready to make that kind of sacrifice to exercise my Second Amendment rights.....

[zxcvbob]

I was polite and honestly bemused the whole time.  I kept expecting a manager or something to come up, but the employees were perfectly friendly.

You sound disappointed. 

[HeroHog]

Ya weren't properly strapped

[seeker_two]

Ya weren't properly strapped

The NAA revolver just puts the whole thing over the top....

[Strings]

I've only ever had a "bad" interaction once: at a fairly liberal coffee shop, I was asked if I would take my gun outside since I was "making other patrons nervous". Guy was actually quite receptive to me just untucking my shirt to cover the pistol

The fact I and a couple others had actually hung around one night when the barrista was getting threatening phone calls might have helped

[HeroHog]

My worst incident was when I was escorted out of an unposted hospital by a gaggle of cops and it wasn't an issue at all. They were nice, polite and apologetic and understood the law and my rights. They were called and told to ask me to take my gun to my car as it was "against hospital policy." End of story.