If we read PC 25850, section (b) carefully, it says:
Quote:
(b) In order to determine whether or not a firearm is loaded for the purpose of enforcing this section, peace officers are authorized to examine any firearm
carried by anyone on the person
or
in a vehicle while in any public place
or
on any public street in an incorporated city
or
prohibited area of an unincorporated territory.
Refusal to allow a peace officer to inspect a firearm pursuant to this section constitutes probable cause for arrest for violation of this section.
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To me, OP was in neither of the bolded areas.
If the firearms are in cases, it is not
"on the person". He is clearly not
"in a vehicle", nor was he
"on any public street" or
"prohibited area". To me, a
prohibited area would be school zones, federal buildings, etc. To say that the lobby of a gun range is a prohibited area is stretching, even though one would not want a customer discharging weapons there.