--- description: A restaurant owner in Louisiana is pushing back against national chains that are banning guns in their stores. title: This Louisiana Restaurant Owner Gives a Discount to Gun Owners image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Guns](/tag/guns/) ## Guns Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Louisiana Restaurant Owner Gives a Discount to Gun Owners  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 30, 2014 12:25 AM CUT  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 30, 2014 12:25 AM CUT A local restaurant owner in Louisiana will give a 10 percent discount to any customers that show him their guns—and not the arm muscle kind. Kevin Cox, owner of Bergeron’s Restaurant in Port Allen, is bucking a corporate trend by [encouraging](http://www.ketknbc.com/news/video-restaurant-offers-discount-for-carrying-gun "undefined"), rather than banning, firearms in his Cajun food establishment. Cox said he’s frustrated with chains like Target, which requested in July that customers not bring their weapons into stores, [NBC33](http://www.ketknbc.com/news/video-restaurant-offers-discount-for-carrying-gun "undefined") reports. “I keep hearing so much about people banning guns,” Cox told NBC33\. “Target’s banning guns and these people are banning guns. Don’t they realize that that’s where people with guns are going to go? I want to take the opposite approach. How can I make my place safer?” Cox said some 15 to 20 people take him up on the discount offer every day. “I just need to see a weapon. I need you to be carrying a gun,” he told NBC33. \[[_NBC33_](http://www.ketknbc.com/news/video-restaurant-offers-discount-for-carrying-gun "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3446709/louisiana-restaurant-owner-gives-a-discount-to-gun-owners/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3446709/louisiana-restaurant-owner-gives-a-discount-to-gun-owners/"},"headline":"Louisiana Restaurant Owner Gives a Discount to Gun Owners","datePublished":"2014-09-30T00:25:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:28:48.326Z","description":"\"I just need to see a weapon\"","url":"https://time.com/3446709/louisiana-restaurant-owner-gives-a-discount-to-gun-owners/","keywords":["Guns","Target","Gun Control","Civil Rights","Louisiana"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Noah Rayman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/guns/","name":"Guns"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3446709/louisiana-restaurant-owner-gives-a-discount-to-gun-owners/","name":"Louisiana Restaurant Owner Gives a Discount to Gun Owners"}}]}] ```