To: OneWingedShark
...there exists no actual law barring weapons from the courthouse. {What they do have is a court rules document which specifies it; however, the State Constitution says No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense [...] so any prosecution thereof would be just such an abridging law.} Well, I did say that bearing arms on public property is "sticky".
As your example above shows, a citizen would be well within their constitutional rights to go armed inside the courthouse --- but, you'd better be prepared to go through all sorts of hell to defend that right, should you do so.
100 posted on
03/05/2011 9:00:02 PM PST by
Windflier
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To: Windflier
As your example above shows, a citizen would be well within their constitutional rights to go armed inside the courthouse --- but, you'd better be prepared to go through all sorts of hell to defend that right, should you do so I'm quite tempted to do so for a municipal or county courthouse, especially as the State Constitution also says: "No county or municipality shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms."
Just to give myself a bit more ammunition.
101 posted on
03/05/2011 9:12:45 PM PST by
OneWingedShark
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