Costco Gun Policy

by maxkalehoff on January 5, 2013

Costo No GunsI love Costco. It’s a great place to spend a Saturday morning alone or with your loved ones. :-)

On Christmas day 2012, in the wake of the Newtown tragedy, I was wondering about Costco’s policy on fire arms and other weapons.

What if one of my favorite places and retail institutions supported easy access to guns and ammunition? I would have to rethink my Costco passion.

My local Costco in Westchester County certainly doesn’t sell firearms or other weapons, but what about other locations, further from New York City?

I could not find Costco’s gun policy published anywhere on the company’s website. I couldn’t find any guns for sale on the Costco website, either.

So I emailed my question to Bev Akada in Costco’s corporate communications office.

Her assistant replied:

Hi Max,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Costco’s policy prohibits weapons within our buildings.

All the best,

PJ (Peggy-Jo) Faria

My loyalty to Costco has increased.

  • frijoli

    Which means only criminals have guns in the stores. Feel better?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=707270629 Jim Speed

    REALLY? Now Explain to me exactly HOW this Policy is GOOD? It PROHIBITS people like myself with a CCW/CWP permit from carrying in the store.. but .. A CRIMINAL is going to carry one inside No matter WHAT little sign they have outside. What happens when that criminal or “insane” person pulls out that gun of his – after IGNORING the sign and starts Shooting people?

    Do NOT say it can’t happen.. this kind of insanity happens ALL THE TIME to people who say it CAN’T happen to the. Now all you’ve done is put a bunch of SHEEP in a big building and NOT allowed someone who has LEGALLY demonstrated they can handle a gun and KNOW the laws of their state in regards to the use of deadly force.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=707270629 Jim Speed

    I forgot to add the ENDING…

    The ONLY thing you have done is made yourself “Feel Good” by putting up a meaningless sign”.. when in reality all you have done is made yourselves MORE SUSCEPTIBLE to this kind of danger. MORONS.

  • Josh

    You are the worst kind of moron — one with an arrogant little smugness that makes me sincerely hope that you are mugged at knife point some day, maybe even beaten into unconsciousness by some criminal thugs. Then you will suddenly understand that guns DO have a place in society, in stopping people who are bent on senseless assault and murder. It’s the ONLY way to stop them, before they kill you or put you in a disability ward. And by the way, A**HOLE, it makes little difference what Costco’s stupid policy is. I carry my Glock in there every time I go, just like I carry it everywhere else. I have a license and it’s lawful. As for their policy, well they can ban me from shopping there if I ever have to defend my life on their property. I’d rather live to be banned than be dead because I complied with their idiotic weapons free policy.

  • Kim Murphy

    No binkies allowed in Costco? Tantrums follow….

  • Murphy

    I’m sorry that you can’t bring your binkie EVERYWHERE, but as you get older, letting go of toys and binkies is a step toward adulthood.

  • dxpiper

    The policy is great for ownership and stockholders alike. As the boss said, we can sleep better knowing we dont sell guns. As to the store-wide policy against carrying weapons, if the policy keeps people like you from going to Costco, it is a great policy. As if guys you are going to obey the sign, anyway. The simple fact remains you are far more likely to be killed living in a house where a weapon is present than you are in a Costco.