I thought prohibiting guns on private property only extended to denying access to the property, i.e. entering a store or restaurant with a firearm, but not seizure of said firearm. However, seeing as the Superdome/Smoothie King Center are in part state funded, maybe the rules can be bent in that respect?
You and many others thought wrong.
Went to a concert there w/ a good friend who happens to be a sgt w/ nopd. He got stopped at the gate for a pocket knife. Smoothie king center security told him he couldn't bring it in. (he handed it off to an officer working the show as a detail, who returned it to him during the show).
Last night the security officers - not cops - had guns, handcuffs, batons, and all that.From my experience, the "Superdome Security" team are morons. The staff are even worse. I try to avoid the Dome and the Arena as much as possible.
I had an incident with a pocket knife once. It wasn't "in the Dome," but "at the Dome." We were walking around town, knowing we would end up there, so I packed along a $10 knife for the day. When we got to security, they waved me with the wand and my knife popped up. The security lady told me I couldn't have it, so I handed it to her expecting they would confiscate it. She handed it back and said "I don't want it, but you can't have it." So I asked what she wanted me to do with it, and she said bring it back to my car, so I threw it in the trash and walked past her. She lost her **** and called over the "Security Officer" who had no idea what to do.