VIDEO: Officer Asked to Leave ‘Gun-Free’ Outback Steakhouse

By Tactical-Life

A uniformed officer armed with his service gun was asked to leave an Outback Steakhouse in Cleveland, Tenn. last Friday after he was told the restaurant was a “gun-free zone.”

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In a Facebook post, Officer Andrew Ward of the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency explained that he and his wife had stopped by the Outback Steakhouse to eat dinner when a manager came up and asked him to put his gun in his truck.

“I let her know that I couldn’t because I was in uniform,” Ward recalled. “She then went and made a call and came back and we were asked to leave because Outback is a gun free zone.”

Ward explained that a complaint from another customer sitting nearby spurred the manager to approach he and his wife.

“There was another customer that was ‘scared for her life’ who was seated across from us,” Ward wrote. “This customer also stated that she was afraid because ‘police are shooting people’ and this customer went on to demand to be escorted to her vehicle out of fear of being shot.”

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Source:: Tactical Life