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SATX-Scrub wrote:We actually have a fairly liberal policy on guns at our Hospital. If you're coming in by ambulance, the security guards can check the weapon for you and return it upon departure. We understand that stuff happens and you can't properly store it, and we've never called the LEOs when 'law abiding' citizens want to turn the weapon in for the duration of their stay. That being said, glad your daughter is fine!

Which hospital are you at? that's the one I want to go to! up to this point we've known when we were heading out to the ER and we've left the guns at home.....or it's been me taking the in-laws to the BAMC ER and and I've left my gun at home....but one of these days....its' either going to be the stress or the other SA drivers

Reminds me of:

When smoking in elevators became illegal.
It was a defense to prosecution if there was no place to extinguish the smoking materials.

They couldn't expect you to throw a lit cigar on the carpet prior to entering the elevator.

Something similar should be written for situations like that concerning hospitals, school premises when you must pick up kid at nurse's office and you are on your skateboard/bike/roller skates (took a train/bus/taxi/caught a ride in a convicted felon's car and can't store it out there with him) (I say funny situations, but seriously, say if across the street is an old retired felon who successfully served his probation 20 years ago for a $1,500.00 theft by check charge, and his car works and I might be too shook up to drive so he takes me to get my niece at nurse's office ... it's possible)

Any situation like going in the college classroom when riding bike to school and not wanting to duct tape your pistol in a plastic bag onto your bike before going in the classroom
if the facility does not provide an ashtray/storage place for your weapon, there should be a defense to prosecution.

I mean me and my neighbor could be shopping and the school call; kid is injured ...
You should not be forced to either hide a gun under a bush prior to entering the door of a school (for a kid to find) (or posted hospital) or commit a crime by carrying it safely into the prohibited place or commit a crime by having a felon keep it for you in his car.

We need a law ... no ashtray ... automatic defense to prosecution.
If you want these places prohibited; provide lockers and dressing rooms so my thigh holster garter/belly band doesn't offend anyone (So I do not have to intentionally fail to conceal while placing in a locker).

The law needs fixin' we should never be forced to choose between committing crimes and endangering children who look under bushes we have to use to store guns outside of school doors.

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now that I got my rant over, I agree with Keith to the extent of the part quoted; It depends how long I'd have t stay and circumstances whether I'd call a security guard to come get my gun I'm not supposed to have there; just seems risky to me; If I have to do an overnighter, I might inquire as to a motel in walking distance (for storage)

Keith B wrote:If you are the patient and go into the hospital unconscious, then you are not going to see the sign and have not received effective notice to leave, so you have not broken any law.

If you are going in under the scenario listed above by the OP, I would go on in and deal with the situation as it may take precedence over the gun issue. If you have to stay and can't get someone to come by and retrieve the weapon from you, .

The anti's know that at least for now they cannot hope to achieve their aim of prohibiting possession of a gun EVERYWHERE, and they must content themselves with making possession of a gun such a hassle, expensive, filled with uncertainties, risks, doubts, fears, etc that only a real gun nut would endure it.

Knowing that I have endured this nonsense here in CA for the last 44 years, you need not ask how I know this.

Go next door to Parkland. They have their own PD within the hospital and there is one at the front door near the metal detectors.
I've talked to a lot of them coming and going in there and they're all really nice. I can't imagine them not wanting to help you if you went in and just explained the situation to them.

It would seem to me that any hospital security would be happy to take your weapon and secure it for you.
I can't imaginegetting in hot water for trying to comply with a law.