counting is not hard

Just to clear up some misconceptions that are being forcibly propagated by an idiotic lawyer here in Tennessee (and piggyback on the news WizardPC beat me to), it is a fact that there are currently 40 states that allow law-abiding citizens to carry their firearms into establishments that serve alcohol. For the ease of understanding, please refer to the following map:

Unfortunately, those states’ laws make that allowance in a variety of ways… Tennessee, for example, had to pass a law expressly stating that concealed/open carry is now legal in all establishments that serve alcohol. Virginia, on the other hand, mandates that open carry is required for any individual carrying in an establishment that serves alcohol. Texas, Missouri, and other states, on a third hand, only allows for carry into establishments that derive at least 51% of their income from non-alcohol sales. On the fourth hand, Washington only keeps legal firearm carriers out of “age-restricted” sections of establishments that serve alcohol, but licensed concealed carry and unlicensed open carry is legal anywhere else in the establishment. And on the fifth hand, some states (like the may-issue states of Kalifornistan, Hawaii, Alabama, and others) simply do not address the topic of firearms in establishments that serve alcohol, and if something is not prohibited, it is, by definition, legal.
Some states actually use the term “bar”; most (like Tennessee) do not. Some states use a “51% rule”; some (like Tennessee) do not. Some states use age-restrictions as a guiding path; some (like Tennessee) do not. A few mandate open carry; most (like Tennessee) do not.
But no matter how you cut the deck, shuffle the numbers, or squint your eyes, 40 states currently allow law-abiding citizens to carry firearms into businesses that serve alcohol for consumption on the premises… just like Tennessee will on the 14th.
In other news, it would be just great if anti-rights activists did not lie so often…