You know robin, before quoting an early post from almost three years ago, you might digest the remaining member’s commentary as well as currency in case stautory oversight changes.
MAC further stated later in the thread, quote “...
The law is unfortunately complicated to read because of AZ's long history of dicking around with our rights before currently being, again, mostly a permitless* state. The sign is grossly misleading by using the word "absolutely," and some jurisdictions with statist nannies in charge are probably doing that on purpose.
*the term Constitutional Carry is a misnomer. Unquote.
Finally, the inital OP OC’d w/o incident.