A don't tread on me flag waves outside Handgunners Inc. Guns are fired Inside, but not by everyone.
"We are handling and discharging live weapons," said Mike Hinshaw, owner of Handgunners Inc. "We can't take no chances. So we need to have good minded and sound and safe people up in this business."
Before you enter Handgunners, you are required to read four signs. Those four signs are not to be taken lightly. If you have cornrows or dreadlocks, you can't come in. If you arrive listening to loud rap music, you can't come in. And if you practice Islam, you can't come in.
"They need to clean up their act," said Hinshaw. "They need to clean up their religion. I mean go study and read their Qu'ran."
Hinshaw said that he doesn't mind denying them business because he said that he believes Islam has radical members.
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"We feel here at this property that a group of people that attacked this country and continuously attack this country, our troops overseas, we don't want anything to do with here," said Hinshaw. "And by the way, I'm sorry, from another country, how can you truly do a criminal background check on these people?"
While this discrimination might seem wrong to some, to Hinshaw, letting people who practice Islam or follow the Qu'ran inside is just too risky.
"When we get to talking about this, you have freedom of religion but common sense has been so pushed back on things," said Hinshaw. "We ain't never have no problems out of the Methodists, the Baptists, the Lutherans, you know keep naming them, the Quakers, but this other bunch, we as a business, we have nothing to offer them."
According to Randy Jones, the spokesman for the Alamance County Sheriff, everything Hinshaw is doing is legal.