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Two summers ago, I drove from the east coast to the Whittington Center in New Mexico. I was going to be there for six weeks and I was traveling with a number of firearms. I am a retired police officer, so I assumed that I was all set to travel while carrying a revolver loaded with ammunition which was not a hollow point. I am a member of a hotel rewards program, and I had arranged all of my hotel stays with that hotel brand. One my second night, after a long day of travel, I discovered that my hotel in Illinois was a "gun free zone". The hotel informed me that this included their parking lot as well. I had to find another nearby hotel, in the late evening, with a vacancy. I had booked my stays through the hotel chains website, not the individual hotels. I had not even considered that some of the hotels may have been franchises, and that the individual hotel owners would adopt their own firearm policies. I now call each hotel that I am considering staying with.