CCW-friendly AZ Dining Guide

Please use our contact form to submit pro or anti-CCW establishments. We do require that you confirm the pro- establishment's policy with management due to numerous inaccurate submissions in the past. Thank you for your active support!

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When you call your favorite restaurants to make reservations for your family, please check if they are posted. If they are, please cancel the reservation for your party and let them know you regret that you and your family will no longer be able to patronize them. Thank them for their years of service.

If given the excuse that it is a liability problem, note that they have been misinformed because:

The law only applies to CCW permit holders who have voluntarily passed background checks and taken legal training to comply with the law. Many CCW permit holders are retired police officers The permit holders have agreed not to drink alcohol on the premises. The weapon MCHINAT be concealed. The same law, sometimes with fewer constraints, has been in effect in 40 other states without problems (with no drinking prohibition in many cases). Numerous national chains have chosen to allow lawful carry by permit holders and certainly would not have if it truly was a "liability" problem.

Remember that establishments that post may not automatically be anti-gun, they may just have a regularly disruptive and rowdy clientele that causes problems. You don't need the problems, and there are many fine restaurants with a higher opinion of you that deserve your business. We have also found an amazing degree of misinformation and many restaurants and bars made their decision with incomplete or incorrect facts. We must try to dispel this ignorance and help them make their choice from an educated, factual position.

Stop and Think

When one of the managers of a place says "just leave it in the car," imagine your insurance rates going up due to constant window breakage from criminals searching for unattended weapons they now assume will be in cars at restaurants or bars that prohibit CCW. While these restaurants might as well put up "Unarmed Victim Zone" signs on the front door, they should also add "Unattended Weapon Storage" to the parking lot. Will that owner reimburse you for? That could be your car broken into whether you own a firearm or not.

If these owners with an agenda really have their way you permit holders will be bullied into leaving your only protection at home and now be disarmed for your entire trip, not just in the restaurant.

Even if you are anti-gun, don't get the idea that an establishment is safer because of a "no weapons" policy. The establishment may have what the management considers a "problem" clientele and is naive enough to think that a sign will prevent a criminal from having a weapon. The management may not be anti-gun, but may not have educated themselves enough to understand that CCW permit holders do not break laws, don't cause problems and will NOT drink as long as the law requires it. Note that many of the 40 other states that allow CCW in bars and restaurants actually allow drinking, yet they still have had no problems.

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