"A furniture store in Takoma Park, Maryland that calls itself a “Weapons Free Environment” took its policy a bit too far on Independence Day.

That’s when a loss prevention officer at IKEA approached Alan Goldberg, who carried a visible, holstered firearm into the store, telling him he would have to leave the premises or place the weapon in his vehicle, according to NBC Washington.

The request caught Goldberg off guard: he is Takoma Park’s chief of police, and he was in uniform during his visit."



In fairness to IKEA when contacted by Goldberg it announced, “We regret that there was a misunderstanding of our weapon policy in our College Park Store,” IKEA said in a statement. “Our weapon policy does not apply to law enforcement officers. We are taking steps to ensure that this is clear for all our co-workers.” and Chief Goldberg pronounced himself satisfied. Still...

http://news.yahoo.com/store-ignores-obvi...-134805594.html

Let's be honest. Only Socialist dope smoking college students and really dumb poor people shop at IKEA.

"Only Socialist dope smoking college students and really dumb poor people shop at IKEA."

Or work there in loss prevention apparently.