Posted on 01/13/2024 6:41:35 PM PST by CFW
Afederal judge has declared that a law banning Americans from possessing guns in postal offices is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Florida ruled Friday that a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling from 2022 made the postal office gun ban illegal.
As part of the decision, she dismissed part of an indictment charging postal worker Emmanuel Ayala with illegally possessing a gun in a federal building. She said the criminal charge violated Ayala’s 2nd Amendment rights.
[link to judge's opinion included in article]
(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...
If HRC had been elected in 2016, all of our Second Amendment rights would be nothing but a distance memory.
How about the social security office too?
So postal worker Ayala had a firearm in the post office and didn’t go postal? You see it is possible after all. /s
Wow. It’s probably going to be a long road before it’s safe to carry into the federal post office property without risking federal charges, but this is huge.
The security at the local Social Security office is insane. Armed guards are everywhere. I told them before I went through the metal detectors I have a titanium hip and I showed them the card from the doctor with the photo of it.
Despite that, when the metal detector went off they drew guns on me.
When I asked why security is so tight at the Social Security office, they said it was because the 911 hijackers had Social Security cards. That makes zero sense. They didn’t use guns to get Social Security cards.
I have walked into a post office after reading the ‘no guns’ sign, and realized how vulnerable we all were.
And most of the customers and staff were oblivious of anything outside thier immediate focus.
The federal government is explicitly enjoined from infringing a citizen’s right to bear arms, most especially on public federal property (which includes National Parks along with the Post Office).
Don’t they know that the only ones allowed to have guns in post offices are the USPS employees who go postal and shoot their co-workers and supervisors to death?
Good!
Dear slimeball and commie politicians, stop trampling on Americans’ civil rights!
Go to the NJDMV and you’ll see private AND State Police armed guards. (Atleast where I go in South Jersey.)
God bless the judge! The bastards even had post office parking lots prohibited areas!
My rural PO has a “weapons prohibited sign” but it is out of the normal line of sight for someone entering.
They know the community.
It looks very strange.
Most of the clients at a Social Security office are applying for disability payments (SSI) or relatives of people who are doing that. They seem to have complicated situations that do not fit into the rules and are often quite upset with the examiners. It is not just a bunch of old geezers.
The most irritable ones are usually in their 30's or 40's and are non-citizens. They get very huffy when they are turned away. Or they get real happy when they get some kind of award. It seems to have something to do with their children.
The examiners are in locked rooms and speak to the clients through bullet-resistant glass.
There is an armed guard in the waiting room.
Who knew that the Social Security office was such a dangerous venue?
It makes the DMV office look like a welcome wagon.
She'll be torturing the Lefties for close to 40 years...
Perhaps we should get the FedGov out of the old-age and disability pension business.
Judges are constantly reversing each other. What an embarassment. Nothing is ever settled. Another judge always reverses every decision ever made.
Useless.
SS puts armed guards in their big city offices.
> Most of the clients at a Social Security office are applying for disability payments (SSI) or relatives of people who are doing that.<
The only time I visited a SSA office was several years back. The place was packed and I was one of the few who spoke English.
EC
Fantastic.
Now I can mail myself a gun!
No. Judge Mizelle found the ban has always been unconstitutional. The ban was put into effect in 1972. It never existed before then.
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