New Signs at Nashville Farmer's Market Are Already Broken

[morg]

Well, I guess the hissy fit some of Nashville's councilmen pitched over guns in parks has spilled over onto the Farmer's Market.

I went down Saturday to get butter and found typed notices of legal size taped to the Food Court doors.

They looked fairly new so I mentioned them to some of the good old country boys selling their wares.

The signs must be broken because they definitely were not working the day I was there.

Vendors sitting in the open air stalls just laughed when I asked about the ban.

One guy told me that "nobody had better stick their head in the cab of my pick up" when I told him.

Metro is going to have a hard time enforcing this one when the market goes into high gear next summer.

People have inventory representing months of labor not to mention cash on hand in their stalls.

I pity the poor officer that gets the call to evict a vendor.

Those stalls are rented months in advance and I don't imagine some farmers are going to turn back over a dinky piece of paper.

I would like an opinion on what defines your place of business and who decides if you can protect it or not.

Morg

[ProguninTN]

[RobertNashville]

Interesting question...I would suspect that under most circumstances the property owner's rights would prevail so whoever actually owns the location could ban weapons; I don't think the fact that a person is renting space there would matter.

That said, if there are contracts involved and nothing about the issue was in the contract when it was executed I think the property owner would have a pretty week position to say, after the fact, that the vendors can't carry.