Posted on 10/29/2009 7:54:00 AM PDT by majstoll
USPS spokesperson Joanne Vito told the Examiner.com that 39 CFR 232.1(l)
applies to anyone coming into a Post Office or a Postal facility. The regulation prohibiting the possession of firearms or other weapons applies to all real property under the charge and control of the Postal Service. . . . Both open and concealed possession are prohibited, so storage of a weapon on a car parked in a lot that is under the charge and control of the Postal Service would be prohibited.
. . .
Philip Van Cleave, President of the Virginia Citizens Defense League . . . said that the Postal Service is just setting a trap for the many gun owners who now carry their guns on a daily basis and may not even know about this parking lot gun ban. Even the National Park gun ban allowed folks to store their guns in their cars, said Van Cleave . .
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Yeah, if I were a Walgreen’s customer and someone with another business in the same center tried to tell me what I could or could not have in my car, I wouldn’t take to kindly to it.
“The CODE? Actually, its more of a guideline.”
And the reasoning for this new law is what?
Is there a history of post office parking lot gun problems?
FUBO.
If I had a gun in glove compartment, how would they know?...seems dumb to me......
George: Let me ask you something: what do you do for a living, Newman?
Newman: Why, I'm a United States postal worker.
George: Aren't those the guys who go crazy and come back with a gun and shoot everybody?
Newman: Sometimes.
Jerry: Why is that?
Newman: Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming. Piles of it, more and more! And you have to put it all out, but the more you put it out, the more it keeps coming in! And then the barcode reader breaks! And it's Publishers Clearing House Day!...
Anyone noticed how many ignored the rules of the government in the Prohibition years?
The consent of the governed is always a factor.
That obamian-laced hag can go piss up a stump.....
Mail service to Alaska has now been CEASED!!
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