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by Tracker
Fri Apr 29, 2016 11:22 pm
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Post Office Law Suit to Repeal Carry Rule
Replies: 278
Views: 125572

Re: Post Office Law Suit to Repeal Carry Rule

KLB wrote:
Ron7624 wrote:I would love to be able to at least leave my gun in the car at the Post Office.
It depends on the post office and the surrounding area, of course, but I find I can usually park on the street or on neighboring property and walk over to the post office. The short walk certainly does me no harm, and my car is not on federal property.
I do this too. It seems to me, however, the Federal gov should have to have a compelling reason to ban guns in post office paking lots.

I live in town of less than 2000 population, very rural. I wonder how many people unwittingly commit a federal crime every day picking up their mail or just dropping a letter in the dive box.
by Tracker
Fri Jul 03, 2015 1:06 pm
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Post Office Law Suit to Repeal Carry Rule
Replies: 278
Views: 125572

Re: Post Office Law Suit to Repeal Carry Rule

In light of Scalia's "sensitive places such as..." in Heller I'd like to know why just because something is federal that automatically qualifies it as a "sensitive place." Where's the armed guard? Not being a lawyer but.... it seems to me if the post office is sensitive the federal government should have to qualify why it is if the fed is going to infringe on my right when getting my mail.
Heller v D.C., Scalia: " Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose. See, e.g., Sheldon, in 5 Blume 346; Rawle 123; Pomeroy 152–153; Abbott333. For example, the majority of the 19th-century courts to consider the question held that prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons were lawful under the Second Amendment or state analogues. See, e.g., State v. Chandler, 5 La. Ann., at 489–490; Nunn v. State, 1 Ga., at 251; see generally 2 Kent *340, n. 2; The American Students’ Blackstone 84, n. 11 (G. Chase ed. 1884). Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment , nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms."

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