Local news reports
Some Beaufort County bar and restaurant owners say guns and alcohol are a losing combination.
This week, when Gov. Nikki Haley signs a bill allowing South Carolinians with concealed-weapons permits to carry firearms into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, signs prohibiting those weapons will go up in some businesses across the county.
Other establishments, also wary, are deciding to wait and see.
Thomas Viljac, owner of the Old Town Dispensary in Bluffton, said he's not worried about gun owners being responsible. He just does not want concealed weapons near patrons who have been drinking alcohol.
"We've talked about it, and we don't want anybody in the bar with a gun," he said. "Mixing alcohol with weapons -- that's risky."
Read more here: http://www.islandpacket.com/2014/02/08/2937020/guns-and-alcohol-dont-mix-beaufort.html#storylink=cpy
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