I've been thinking of leaving PNC because most branches around me have the metal detector security doors. The closest branch to me is 38th and Central. You couldn't pay me to go in there unarmed, so I usually end up driving to Keystone Ave. our Broad Ripple just to hit the ATM.
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Huntington Bank, "Are you police?"
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I've been thinking of leaving PNC because most branches around me have the metal detector security doors. The closest branch to me is 38th and Central. You couldn't pay me to go in there unarmed, so I usually end up driving to Keystone Ave. our Broad Ripple just to hit the ATM.
Hmm... good to know. Maybe I'll inquire with PNC corporate on their "official" stance.
I am thinking about leaving PNC also. When I visited the 79th and Michigan branch and asked about licensed concealed carry and getting through the security doors, they cheerfully stated that if you're carrying, they simply won't let you in.
Some 5/3 branches have the security doors.
My local branch doesn't have them... thankfully!
All the tellers know me pretty well as I run a business and go there quite often. They know I'm always looking out for there safety as well as mine. They have thanked me before when I asked about something suspisious.
They've had several robberies over the years, so I'm always a little more alert while I'm there. To date, I'm told they've caught each person that held them up. You'd think they'd learn! 5/3 isn't the place to be holding up!
I know what you mean and I wouldn't be surprised to hear that she was from one of those branch locations.She must have been a transfer from a Maximum Security Branch....
Sorry, I love saying that.
Boost Lee said:It's unbelievable to think that there is a uniformed deputy that banks with them that removes his duty belt before entering their branch.
Logic lost.
geez. I remember you talking about that. It's still hard to believe. I guess some people don't mind the "extra security" that much.
Hammerhead
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Had to make a run to Indy a few days ago, and a friend asked me to run an errand to their bank branch. Sure thing.
The branch wasn't in what I would consider to be the best of areas, so I was glad I was armed, but I stayed in the truck while Sockmonkey ran inside real quick. Walking around outside the building was an armed security guard.
As he approached where I was parked, I leaned out the window and asked him how many times he counted the steps around the building. He answered that it was 160 yards around. He then said that if he didn't go home all sweaty at night, he didn't feel that he'd done his job.
As he started his circle again, I told him to stay safe. IIRC this was a Huntington branch. I was OCing at the time, but that didn't matter. There were large letters on the front window of the building that said that there was always an armed guard around while the branch was open.
The branch wasn't in what I would consider to be the best of areas, so I was glad I was armed, but I stayed in the truck while Sockmonkey ran inside real quick. Walking around outside the building was an armed security guard.
As he approached where I was parked, I leaned out the window and asked him how many times he counted the steps around the building. He answered that it was 160 yards around. He then said that if he didn't go home all sweaty at night, he didn't feel that he'd done his job.
As he started his circle again, I told him to stay safe. IIRC this was a Huntington branch. I was OCing at the time, but that didn't matter. There were large letters on the front window of the building that said that there was always an armed guard around while the branch was open.
I don't think it is stupidity as much as it is ignorance. I constantly talk to people that don't know anything about firearms, and when they find out I carry all the time, they think that is scarry. Why do you have so many guns? Because I like them. So many people are clueless. Like someone else said, they are brain washed into thinking gun = bad. I have no idea what my CU's policy is on firearms. I CC, so it never comes up. Where are all you guys that OC? I finally saw someone in Meijer OC a month or so ago. He was a great big guy, with a M&P strapped right acrossed his chest. I stopped him and told him I thought it was great and asked him if he was an INGO member. He had never heard of INGO.
I told him he should check it out. Good luck with the Bank thing. If I couldn't carry in my CU. I would find some place different.I can tell you that Huntington doesn't have a no weapon policy in their banks. The branches with the secured vestibles are different. Those have a no weapons policy. If you have a question on which ones have the secure vestibles just PM me.
What branch were you at?
Hammerhead
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38th & Post
You handled this very well, I probably would not have been so polite. In my opinion it would be like asking her if she worked for Verizon because she was carrying a new phone. She would have thought your was just as ignorant as we all know she is.
Sure you were at Huntington? Regions maybe?
brotherbill3
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This is what I was saying - the one's that have been locations of armed robberies - get the secured vestibules. - I was told that is corporate policy ...
QUOTE=88GT 4280734]So you felt it necessary to voice your opinion here instead? How does that make sense? 
Uh..I don't know if I "felt it necessary to voice my opinion" anywhere, but I did. I never thought I'd be questioned about that ability..apparently I was wrong.
Uh..I don't know if I "felt it necessary to voice my opinion" anywhere, but I did. I never thought I'd be questioned about that ability..apparently I was wrong.
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Hammerhead
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Yeah, could have been.
awsome...+1 many people choose to ignore the thread and continue a debate anywaysI looked into that thread..and seeing that it was 186 pages long, decided that my opinion either had already been told, or rebutted, so there was nothing I could add to it. To each his own
PM'd.
Over here in Terre Haute, I haven't had much of an issue with first, although I CC so it's not a huge deal, I'm not sure anyone has ever noticed. They did and do let me bring in my husky pup when I'm doing stuff so she doesn't have to sit in a hot car. I started doing that when I could put her on the counter and hold her there. She's 55lbs now!
I digress though... 5/3 seems to also have a pretty good policy about guns although the one over on 3rd and Ohio does have a "No Guns" sign. All the others seem to be fine with it.
I digress though... 5/3 seems to also have a pretty good policy about guns although the one over on 3rd and Ohio does have a "No Guns" sign. All the others seem to be fine with it.
This is what I was saying - the one's that have been locations of armed robberies - get the secured vestibules. - I was told that is corporate policy ...
Kind of true. Heres the deal. A couple years ago I was working Corporate Security for another bank and Huntington had a robbery that resulted in a teller being shot and she lost the twins that she was pregnant with. Shortly after they added the secure vestibles to around 11 or so branches. Most of them were in areas of previous armed robberies or higher risk. The branches with the secure vestibles have a no weapons policy and if the customers dont like that they can choose to go through the drive through, use the ATM or go to another branch. I've personally seen these doors stop armed robberies so they work.
