Post office grounds and building carry may be coming. . .

[tRidiot]

Yep. Post office here is right next door. Road in front of post office is also used as the queue for picking up kids from school. In fact, it's not uncommon for parents to be blocking the entrance and exit to the Post Office parking lot.

So needless to say, it's an area swarming with parents at times who may or may not be overprotective and have the ability to exercise a bit of common sense.

Now, if you visit the post office between 7:30AM and 8:30AM and 2:30PM and 3:30PM, you're in a bit of a conundrum. Do you break federal law with minimal risk and go on and park in the Post Office parking lot? Do you risk a ticket for impeding the flow of the school children pick-up/drop-off queue? Or do you walk 2 blocks from the nearest public parking (or 1 block from a private lot where no one will really report you)? How important is that Post Office visit?

How is it breaking Fed law if you park and leave your weapon in the car outside the P.O.? On school grounds, yes, state law, but it sounds like the parking lot isn't school property. You just can't carry into the post office.

 

[vvvvvvv]

How is it breaking Fed law if you park and leave your weapon in the car outside the P.O.? On school grounds, yes, state law, but it sounds like the parking lot isn't school property. You just can't carry into the post office.

39 C.F.R. § 232.1(l)

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, rule or regulation, no person while on postal property may carry firearms, other dangerous or deadly weapons, or explosives, either openly or concealed, or store the same on postal property, except for official purposes.

ETA: While the District Court of Colorado found it unconstitutional, it won't be decided for sure unless it hits the SCOTUS as it falls under the "longstanding prohibition" exception to the Second Amendment in McDonald.

 

[doctorjj]

39 C.F.R. § 232.1(l)



ETA: While the District Court of Colorado found it unconstitutional, it won't be decided for sure unless it hits the SCOTUS as it falls under the "longstanding prohibition" exception to the Second Amendment in McDonald.

Aren't there municipalities where the city streets are simply easements but still owned by the property owners? In that case driving on the street on the same side of the post office would be the post office's property.

 

[vvvvvvv]

Aren't there municipalities where the city streets are simply easements but still owned by the property owners? In that case driving on the street on the same side of the post office would be the post office's property.

Probably. I don't know of any off the top of my head.

I do know there are many hospitals and movie theaters that are city-owned and city-operated. It's hard to keep up with what is and isn't government property and therefore a prohibited place, especially in a rural area.